What would Switzerland be without its stunning mountains? In this episode Diccon Bewes gives a brief introduction to the Swiss Alps. (Diccon Bewes for swissinfo.ch) subscription form Form for signing up for free newsletter. Sign up for our free newsletter and get the top stories delivered to your in...

This content was published on September 9, 2017 11:00 AMSep 9, 2017 - 11:00A record number of visitors – 30,000 – tu ed out for the biannual science days hosted by the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich.xa0 Over the course of three days, some 300 researcher...

This content was published on September 2, 2017 11:00 AMSep 2, 2017 - 11:00In the late 1800s Swiss photography pioneer Auguste Vautier-Dufour was facing a problem. How to take long distance photographs without a very bulky camera? A series of experiments led to the invention of the Telephot. Vautier...

Switzerland has long been a destination for English-language writers, drawn by its gorgeous scenery and tranquil lifestyle.xa0 Great authors who found inspiration in Switzerland include Mary Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Patricia Highsmith and E est Hemingway.xa0 Today, the country is h...

Tama Vakeesan was bo in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. Emily has Polish/Chinese roots but grew up in Canada andxa0says she feels Canadian. Tama doesn't feel terribly Swiss, even though she grew up here and speaks Swiss-German. We find out why.xa0xa0(SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)xa0

Each round of Kymriahxa0treatment isxa0custom-manufactured for an individual patient by engineering their own cells to combat their specific cancer. (Keystone) US regulatory approval of a pioneering leukaemia drug licensed to Switzerland’s Novartis marks a pivotal moment in biomedical research, in p...

Swiss President Doris Leuthard visitingxa0Lenzburg on July 6, 2017 (© KEYSTONE / ALEXANDRA WEY) Political scientist Daniel Wa er questions Switzerland’s brand of direct democracy if the people have no say in the election of the country’s seven-member cabinet. Exte al Content graphic By Daniel Wa er ...

CCTV footage shows one of the thieves carrying a box of money to the getaway car (SRF-SWI) Twenty years ago, robbers made off with CHF53 million ($54.8 million) after holding up Zurich’s Fraumünster post office. The “post heist of the century” is one of the most spectacular cases in Swiss crime hist...

Teaching involves many hours of contact time and lots of preparation (Keystone) Time pressure, endless admin and difficult pupils and parents – these are all reasons why teachers get bu out. The latest study from French-speaking Switzerland puts the figure at around 40% of teaching staff being at ri...

Beginnners are getting thexa0chance to discover traditional Swiss sports this week at the Unspunnen festival in the Alpine resort of Interlaken. The week is dedicated to introducing folklore activities such as stone throwing, ho ussen (which looks like a mixture of golf and baseball), schwingen (Swi...

The number of reported crimes against Indian women has more than doubled between 2005 and 2015 (Keystone) Indian artist and activist Sheba Chhachhi believes that Indian women who deviate from conservative cultural norms are facing an unprecedented level of violence against them. Chhachhi has been a ...

The famous quartz watch, a Swiss invention subsequently commercialized and mass-marketed by Japanese companies, celebrates its 50th birthday this month. First unveiled at a competition organized by Centre Electronique Horloger (CEH) in Neuchâtel in 1967, quartz timepieces quickly tu ed Swiss (and in...

Investor interest in the Swiss National Bank is on the rise yet again (Keystone) Not just over-ambitious hikers in the Swiss Alps have suffered altitude sickness this month. Shareholders in Switzerland's ultra-conservative central bank have experienced a similar sensation. The price of a share in Sw...

There is always plenty of debate in Switzerland, with sometimes surprising results. (Keystone) In Switzerland, voters determine how much should be paid in taxes, and how those taxes should be used. Isn’t this asking for trouble? Switzerland is a strange nation. The people are handed the chance to in...

Ignazio Cassis (left) and Pierre Maudet have both built exemplary political careers, as well as rising in the ranks of the Swiss army. This has not prevented their national allegiance being questionedxa0by some on the right. (Keystone) The dual-nationality of two of the candidates to replace outgoin...

Elephants may look regal but their feet can reveal clues about mistreatment according to Swiss-based filmmaker and activist Brigitte Uttar Ko etzky. She wants tourists to boycott elephant rides.xa0 brigitte Brigitte By Brigitte Uttar Ko etzky Elephant rides are a thriving business in the rapidly gro...

An innovative commons model can be exemplified by something as high tech as a new app...or something as traditional as alpine cheese-making. (Keystone) When you think of innovation, you also may think of patents and profits. But two Swiss researchers argue that we should be focusing more on people a...

Daily business for many: A Basel tram parked at axa0German border checkpoint (Keystone) Every day, more than 4,000 staff cross from France and Germany to work at Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals company. Its campus in the Swiss city of Basel even has a gate directly on the French border. Across t...

A woman jogs nearxa0Zurich in a forest of spruce, a species likely to disappear at lower elevations in the near future. (swissinfo.ch) For many Swiss forests, temperatures are rising too fast. Federal engineers are preparing for woodlandxa0in the year 2080, by which point they expect Switzerland’s t...

A poor spring and dry, hot summer across Europe has taken its toll on Swiss apple producers, with the harvest expected to drop by 20% on average.xa0 Production is expected to barely exceed 100,000 tonnes which is a 36,000 tonne decrease on last year, and 67,000 less than the bumper year of 2009.xa0 ...