The nuclear researcher Annalisa Manera is campaigning for a sober perspective on atomic energy, caught between the threat of a nuclear phase-out and the thrill of a mission to Mars.🚀 She explains why our future might depend on it.👇

A former doctoral student of EPFL landed in court because of a blog post about questionable citation practices. An ex-president of EPFL testified in his favour.👇 @retractionwatch.com @scientoskop.bsky.social

📐📏✈️📐📏✈️📐📏✈️📐📏✈️📐📏✈️ A delicate network of lines reveals the flightpaths of #planes en route to Dublin Airport. We look at how the monitoring system ADS-B helps #AviationResearch to understand air traffic 👉 @jho42.bsky.social

🦠💊🦠💊 Viruses can be used to combat #MultidrugResistant bacteria. But there are still problems with getting authorisation for #phage therapy in Switzerland. We look at how this might be changed. @klarasoukup.bsky.social

♂️🧬⚔️♀️ #Genes can have a varied impact on us, depending on whether we inherit them from our father or our mother. Robin Hofmeister @rjhfmstr.bsky.social and his colleagues at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social have discovered 30 such genes.👇️

〰️❌✳️🟰♾ The narcissistic findings of a cosmologist by @tomgauld.bsky.social .👇

🖥️⚗️ Minerva, an AI developed by the team @pschwllr.bsky.social optimises chemical synthesis reactions. It soundly beats human intuition and can adapt to high-speed production.👇

The number of fake scientific papers produced by #PaperMills is doubling every 1.5 years. One of the researchers who uncovered this fact is calling for greater action.👇 @pnas.org @scientoskop.bsky.social

❄️🌨️🌪️ Researchers at the universities of Bern and Lausanne have been analysing vortices in the stratosphere to help predict the course of winter storms. 👇

“Can we ban funding from some companies?” asks Luciana Vaccaro, president of Swissuniversities. Horizons explores how and why private #funding of academic #research should or should not be thriving.

Only recently, mid-level staff felt like their concerns were finally being heard, recalls Joanna Haupt Co-President of @actionuni.bsky.social. But now, with the looming budget cuts, all improvements could be lost again.👇

🐴🪢💊🐴 Sometimes vets apply loops to the upper lips of horses. This looks painful, but in some horses it can help to reduce stress and pain during medical procedures, claim researchers at the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Bern @unibe.ch.👇

Let’s not get bogged down by the notion of #ArtificialIntelligence, but instead take a hard, sober look at what it actually means👉 @jho42.bsky.social

German-speaking Swiss tend to expect greater #integration from ‘foreigners’ than from ‘people in general’. This bias, absent in French-speaking Switzerland, was measured by @s-manser-egli.bsky.social and @lutzphilipp.bsky.social as part of the NCCR "On the Move".

🙋🙋♀️👶 🙋♀️🙋👶🙋♀️🙋👶 Trying to establish an egalitarian family model can fail simply because an employer won’t let a father stay off work to tend a sick child. We look at why shared custody isn’t the norm.👇

🚀 🪨 🔬 The rocks of dried-up lakes on Mars could hold traces of former life there. A team from the University of Bern @unibe.ch has now developed a mass spectrometer that could help them in this quest.👇

Monica Zoppè is delighted that @nature.com is adopting a process of #OpenPeerReview, albeit with the option of keeping peer reviews anonymous.👇 @scientoskop.bsky.social

🔎 Researchers have used a large language model on the annual reports of 600 European companies to investigate their #sustainability. 👇

🇨🇦🐕🇨🇦🐕🇨🇦🐕 In der kanadischen Provinz Ontario möchte der Premierminister Forschung mit Hunden verbieten. Forschende wehren sich sowohl gegen ein Verbot als auch gegen Drohungen.👇 @e4dca.bsky.social @scientoskop.bsky.social

Despite a fragmented environment, the lady’s slipper orchid survives remarkably well, say Sergio Rasmann and his colleagues at the University of Neuchâtel.👇

🧠➡️💵 Without curiosity-driven science, a source of private firms’ development also dries up, says Laura Bernardi of the Swiss National Science Foundation @snsf.ch.👇

Why we can’t live forever: #Evolution lets us down, and the body has to fight too many different battles. 💊💉🥗🏃➡️ From restricting #calories to #antioxidants and #rapamycin 👇

🍇⚔️🍄 In the heart of the vineyards of the #Changins wine college, a war is being played out between mushrooms and grapes. Scientists are trying to help the #vine resist #mildew and other attackers. We report from this vineyard laboratory.👇

Old, older, immortal? 🦇🐋🌲 We go on a journey to find bats, whales, trees – and a giant sponge that’s been around for 10,000 years.👇

❄️🌨️❄️🌨️❄️ If an avalanche hits a mountain road, the results can be tragic. Researchers at WSL are using Davos as a test area to develop more precise calculations for avalanches.👇

🧓👴👵 Five perspectives on getting older: - Manuel Puntschuh on longevity - Valérie-Anne Ryser on ageing population - Saul Newman on blue zones - François-Xavier Putallaz on assisted suicide - Katja Früh on ageing well 👇

🌋🧐🌋🧐🌋 #Volcanoes are being monitored more closely than ever. #News spreads quicker than ever. So people assume that volcanoes are becoming more active. We look at why that’s not the case, and how #researchers are learning more about them👇 @hfilser.bsky.social

We all grow #old – but the issues that arise when we want to live longer pose a dilemma, says Judith Hochstrasser, joint editor-in-chief of Horizons. Do we simply want to survive longer? Or instead enjoy whatever time we’ve got left?👇 @jho42.bsky.social

“All the main issues of the world are fundamentally #scientific issues”, says @dme.bsky.social , editor-in-chief of Scientific American. We consider how #ScienceJournalism since the 1950s has gone from cheerleader to watchdog.👇

What will everyday life look like around the world in five years’ time, when one in six people is over 60? Photographers from the project ‘1 in 6 in 2030’ have been looking for answers. Here’s a sneak preview👇

We all want to live a long life, but the reality of it is complex. The new issue of Horizons reveals the extent to which science today can promote longevity, and the diverse approaches to dealing with the ageing process. 👉www.horizons-mag.ch

“There are already differences of opinion about how much we should be de-centring Russia in our field”. Fabian Baumann, a historian of Eastern Europe, explains how his discipline is affected by the #war in #Ukraine.👇

⚔ ➡️ 💸➡️ 🧪 Should cuts in research funding be compensated for by the military budget? Yes, says Dominique Foray from EPFL No, says Laurent Goetschel @lgoetschel.bsky.social from the University of Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social

Between geopolitical tensions and technology races: Yves Flückiger, President of a+, explains why the Academies must not only be part of international networks, but also contribute to building them. #ScienceDiplomacy #Horizons 👇

Binge-watching for research purposes: Stéphane Boutin analysed TV series for his doctoral thesis. Today he’s a study programme coordinator at University of Zurich. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, he wrote a candid essay about it for the Tages Anzeiger.👇

♻️ 🔬 🛰️ If you want to capture #SpaceDebris, it helps to know how fast it’s spinning. Researchers at the Zimmerwald Observatory are working on this.👇

💵 7.4 million francs. This is our value in the eyes of 🇨🇭 society. Here’s our survey to understand how and why our lives are valued, whether concerning health, disasters, transportation or conflicts. With contributions from Laurent Goetschel. 👇

“Bridging the divide between science and policy making should no longer be the icing on the cake but the cake itself”. Says Abishek S. Narayan at @eawag.bsky.social👇

Normally, it’s sex that ensures genetic diversity among animals. But in some fish at least, things proceed differently, as researchers at @unibas.ch.bsky.social and @univparissaclay.bsky.social have now proven.👇

Whoever dares to take a leap out of their established #ResearchField to engage in #interdisciplinary work will be cited less often. We look at how this ‘pivot penalty’ came about👇

How do multinationals manage their international presence in times of trouble? The historians @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social and @pydonze.bsky.social looked into the case of Nestlé between 1950 and 1980. The strategies of the time still seem relevant today.👇

Show me how you write, I'll tell you if you have #ADHD! 📝🤯 This is the perspective opened up by the research of Juan Barrios and Martin Debbané at #Unige.👇

#DeSci, or decentralised science, wants to solve the problems of the research world with #blockchain. But whether or not it can actually work remains to be seen. @scientoskop.bsky.social

➕ /➖ Researchers at Fribourg University have discovered that with repeated #cancer #checkups the cons can outweigh the pros.👇

Does CERN really need a new #ParticleAccelerator? Yes, says particle physicist Lea Caminada. No, says @dklopfenstein.bsky.social, a politician for the Green Party in Geneva. You can read the full debate here👇

🚨 🐛 Researchers at @eawag.bsky.social have developed an early warning system for infectious diseases by measuring #drugs in our #WasteWater.👇

Even incomprehensible #jargon can make a poor explanation sound convincing. This is the result of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Princeton.👇 @tanialombrozo.bsky.social @scientoskop.bsky.social

👚🧤🦺👖👟👚🧤🦺👖👟👚🧤🦺👖👟 Charging your #smartwatch with your #OutdoorJacket or tricking #SurveillanceCameras into thinking you’re a giraffe🦒 – we look at five start-ups and research projects that are developing very specific garments.👇

🦾 🤖 🦾 🤖 🦾 🤖 🦾 🤖 🦾 🤖 The latest #update on #machine omnipotence by @tomgauld.bsky.social

ANDI sweats while HVAC makes measurements: researchers from Empa and EPFL are using these high-tech dummies to determine the office climate of the future – without expensive lab tests.👇