🦒 🦒 🦒 If the #giraffe population of the Serengeti is to keep growing again, it’s the adult animals in particular that must be protected.👇

Whether electron microscopes 🔬, MRI 🧠 or networks of space telescopes 📡: cutting-edge technology delivers impressive images from the very small to the very large. @icepfl.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @esa.int Here are seven examples 👇

#Science is not doing well, true or false?🔬Between 15 years of decline in #AcademicFreedom and strong but dented #confidence: introspection from within the world of research with @eribertsou.bsky.social @colognaviktoria.bsky.social @angelovpanaro.bsky.social.👇

“It’s disgusting what we’re being instructed to do”. Employees of the National Science Foundation have been telling the Guardian in the UK what’s happening on the research funding scene in the USA.👇

Images can be a powerful advertisement for #science – but sometimes things can backfire. We look at a horrifying mouse🐭👂 with a human ear, the mighty Pillars of Creation🏛️🌍 and evolutionary misunderstandings🙈🙈.

🪫⏱️🔋 A #battery that’s charged within a minute and can be used in extreme hot and cold conditions: This is an invention of BTRY AG, a spin-off of Empa. How it works👇 @scientoskop.bsky.social

Images are often crucial to research. We’ve spoken with three people who make images accessible to scientists and scholars. 👇 #Microscopy @EPFL_en #ImageArchive #DataViz

The images that researchers use can expand the world that we construct in our minds, says Florian Fisch @scientoskop.bsky.social , taking his cue from Jacques Dubochet.👇

Images magnify our world, but also distort it. The new issue of Horizons sheds light on the power of scientific visualisations. 👉www.horizons-mag.ch

Political attacks, natural risks, computer obsolescence... 🙊🌊 Scientific data is under threat. We provide details of a struggle for its preservation and for #OpenScience with Jürgen Enge, @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @rrrrrok.bsky.social und Frank Oliver Glöckner.

Swiss researchers have triggered outrage with a research study they ran on #reddit. They let an #AI join the discussion without getting consent from moderators or users. Samia Hurst explains the #ethical sticking points👇

“At stake is what questions can be asked at all”. Laura Bernardi, Vice-President at SNF, is worried about US restrictions on research. And she points out: “Excellence cannot be disentangled from diversity.” 👇

Public health experts ought to be much more political, says Eric Reinhart in Nature.👇 @scientoskop.bsky.social

Concrete capable of absorbing urban noise 🔉 and promoting biodiversity 🌿, produced using ice structures 🧊! This is the gamble of the ETH Zurich materials researcher Vasily Sitnikov, who has just launched the startup Ice Formwork. 👇

💫 Comets are full of holes, just like a Swiss cheese, and sometimes these cavities explode. A team from Bern University has used data from the Rosetta Mission to identify a possible cause.👇

🍼👶🍼👶🍼👶🍼👶 “Dominant groups in society are often encouraged to #reproduce, while #minorities are deliberately prevented from doing so”. The historian Nicole Bourbonnais sums up the injustice at the heart of the worldwide reproductive health market.👇

The #USA is the latest pool for #research talent! We look at how #Europe’s #universities are jostling for position.👇

Data from supermarket loyalty cards drive a new #app to provide personalised tips on #nutrition. It’s been developed by researchers at the University of St.Gallen and the Inselspital Bern. 👇

#Psychotherapy research is ongoing into #Psilocybin, #LSD and #MDMA. Perhaps it’s time to get rid of the loaded concept of #drugs.👇

Researchers hide someone’s keys 🔑and their watch ⌚ in front of them. A new test for #dementia developed by the Geneva University Hospitals involves getting them to find these objects again. 👇

Google has presented a new 🤖 AI system. It has generated a #hypothesis that has meanwhile been proven experimentally. 👇 @scientoskop.bsky.social

👨👩👧👦 Our parents can set us on a course for professional success – by instilling a positive attitude towards taking responsibility and acting independently. 👇

A clinical study of the impact of sweeteners on obese menopausal women in Iran was unable to take place. We investigate why. 👇

#Wikipedia has its very own #PeerReview! Jess Wade has written many Wikipedia articles🖊️about women from the #STEM disciplines. She says there are very few places like it.👇

The fossilised teeth 🦷 of a prehistoric 🦈 shark reveal how this apex predator caught and ate its prey. 👇 @merlegreif.bsky.social

😮💡💥 An analysis of projects submitted to the US National Institutes of Health has revealed that unexpected findings occur more often in medical research than you’d think.👇 #Serendipity @scientoskop.bsky.social

😫🩸🩸😫🩸🩸😫 The illness #endometriosis can trigger very severe #period pains and even lead to infertility. The Zurich start-up #Fimmcyte has found a way of healing the injuries and scarring that occur outside the #uterus 👇

🦖🦕 When a scientist and a journalist discuss #dinosaur DNA … by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Do high-security labs need stricter rules? Yes, says Laurent Bächler of the think tank Pour Demain in the latest Horizons debate. But virology expert at the University of Geneva Mirco Schmolke insists that research is already secure enough.👇

🥊🛡️🦷 New boxing mouthguards from EPFL and CHUV Lausanne combine protection with greater comfort. We show how they work.👇

In 1888, Bertha Benz bought 3 litres of gasoline, starting the history of the filling station. Today, mobility finds itself at another turning point. We hear what researchers from Empa, ZHAW and BFH can tell us about the future of fuels.👇

🕷️ 🕸️ Spiders aren’t too fond of competition. @tomratz.bsky.social of the University of Zurich has been investigating what happens when well-fed and hungry black widows meet up.👇

Rita Sarkis, a Lebanese researcher in AI for tumour diagnosis, points to the obstacles facing non-European scientists in Switzerland: “Restrictions in Switzerland make it difficult to integrate technological advances into hospital environments”.

What, you’re researching a topic that affects you personally? In fact, this can work out well, finds Judith Hochstrasser, joint Editor-in-Chief of Horizons. But you must utilise one of the core competencies of science: #transparent self-reflection.

#urbex explores itself. The aerial view of a vortex-like ruin submitted to the 2025 SNSF Scientific Images competition by the geographer @audelegallou.bsky.social offers a glimpse of research conducted literally off the beaten track.👇

I’ve experienced this myself and now it’s the topic of my research! 🧐🧐🧐 How can this be done objectively? 🤔🤔🤔 For our photo series, Angelika Annen has captured the resultant balancing act between #selfreflection and bewilderment.👇

⛵🔬 Margot Camus-Romelli has set up a 14-month #lowtech scientific expedition on a sailing boat in the Atlantic and dreams of becoming an ICRC member. She is 22, an EPFL student, and involved in life sciences, freediving, sailing, writing and management.

How methods and #objectivity arrived in #science, from the early alchemists to the randomised, controlled, blind study. 👇 @unisg.ch @sgruninger.bsky.social

“I consider this onslaught against science terrible and illegal, but I also understand where it is coming from”, says Claudia Brühwiler, a professor of political theory at the University of St. Gallen @unisg.ch. Read the full interview 👇

🧐🧠🧐🧠🧐🧠 Don’t #science and #scholarship have to be #objective? Jan Sprenger, a philosopher of science, explains why this is a highly complicated topic, and why subjectivity also has its place.👇

In the 15th century, glass beads were used as currency by European traders in West Africa. A systematic characterisation sheds light on this part of history.👇

#Feminists who research into gender. Foreigners who investigate #racism. Being personally involved doesn’t necessarily make you prejudiced. We look at how researchers deal with autoethnography. 👇

✂️⛰️📜✂️⛰️📜 Who’s suited to working in the #police? And who’s best able to predict the behaviour of others? In the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, the #game rock, paper, scissors is helping researchers to find answers.

Sie hat eine #Blutkrankheit 🩸und erforscht deren Behandlung, er war Gangmitglied 🔫und vergleicht heute Dynamiken in #Gangs . Fünf Insider und Betroffene ihres eigenen Forschungsprojektes sprechen über ihren Umgang mit Distanz und Nähe.👇

In the midst of the action, yet at a scholarly distance: The latest issue of Horizons reveals how personal involvement can shape the scientific process, and the role objectivity plays in it. 👉www.horizons-mag.ch

In late 2025, the main science programme of Radio SRF 2 will be cancelled, says the SRG. Otfried Jarren, a professor of communication science at @uzh_ikmz, says this is a bad idea. 👇 #srfwissen @ScientoSkop

“Truth and trust are fundamental to scientific practice”, says Yves Flückiger, president of Swiss Academies. He adds that scientists need to learn how to simplify complex ideas.👇

Horticulture was established in Oceania 2,800 years ago, according to the findings of a team from @EawagResearch und @ETH 👇

What happens to your academic self when your access to statistics programs and scholarly literature ceases after #retirement? Annette Tettenborn is researching into this transitional period in the career of academics.👇

#Recycling isn’t always a good idea, according to a study of #pvcflooring by Empa and ETH.👇