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Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, the new Swiss Nobels, pictured in 2005.(Keystone / Laurent Gillieron) Swiss scientists ...

Agassiz's reputation for his acclaimed early work on Ice Age theory became marred by his later writings on racist theories of anthropology and human origins.(Wikimedia Commons) The Swiss Alpine Club’s recent decision not to revoke the honorary membership of a controversial Swiss glaciologist raises the question: can a person’s contributions to...

Did you know that you don't have to be a scientist to do science? In Switzerland, efforts to democratise the scientific process start with inviting citizens to answer their own questions. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he is campaigning with all his "heart and soul" for Britain to stay in the European Union What could a Brexit mean for the United Kingdom’s higher education, research and student mobility? Switzerland offers some clues. The stakes are high as the UK prepares to hold a so-called Brexit referendum on June 23 on whether to stay or leave the European Union. The two sides remain divided. In the leave camp Scientists for Britain argue that the UK could g...

Both improv theatre and scientific research hinge on the same central question: what will happen next? (thecatalyst.ch) When you put an actor in the role of a scientist, you often end up with a bespectacled, jargon-filled eccentric in a lab coat. But what happens when you put a scientist in the role of an actor? That’s the experiment brewing at an improvisational theatre troupe in Lausanne. In an empty classroom at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), six researchers are gesticulating and s...