Swiss mired in poisonous row over pesticides
The idyllic image of peaceful Swiss Alpine pastures is being shattered by upcoming votes on pesticides which have sharply divided opinion in rural Switzerland......»»
ETH spin-off LatticeFlow raises $2.8M to help build trustworthy AI systems
LatticeFlow, an AI startup that was spun out of ETH Zurich in 2020, today announced that it has raised a $2.8 million seed funding round led by Swiss deep-tech fund btov and Global Founders Capital, which previously backed the likes of Revolut, Slack.....»»
Spain’s Glovo inks real-estate tie-up to add more dark stores for speedy urban delivery
Spain’s Glovo, an on-demand delivery app, has announced a strategic partnership with Swiss-based real estate firm, Stoneweg. The deal will see the latter invest €100M in building and refurbishing “prime city real estate” in some o.....»»
Modern tomatoes can"t get same soil microbe boost as ancient ancestors
Tomato plants are especially vulnerable to foliar diseases that can kill them or impact yield. These problems require a number of pesticides in conventional crops and make organic production especially difficult......»»
Bacteria carried by mosquitoes may protect them against pesticides
A common bacterial species naturally infecting mosquitoes may actually be protecting them against specific mosquito pesticides, a study has found......»»
"Swiss Army knife" catalyst can make natural gas burn cleaner
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago......»»
Scientists turn toxic pesticide into treatment against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
N-Aryl-C-nitroazoles are an important class of heterocyclic compounds. They are used as pesticides and fungicides. However, these substances could be toxic to humans and cause mutations. As they are not frequently used, there is little data about the.....»»
Substack explains its ‘hands-off’ approach to content moderation
Content moderation has been a thorny topic in 2020. And when I say “thorny,” I mean in the sense of having multiple congressional hearings on the subject. Twitter and Facebook in particular have been mired in concerns around the subject, fielding.....»»
Discovery: How Colorado potato beetles beat pesticides
The Colorado potato beetle is a notorious pest—and a kind of unstoppable genius......»»
Beech forests responded quickly to 2018 Swiss drought
How do Swiss beeches respond to extreme drought? To answer this question, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) studied 75 National Forest Inventory (NFI) sample plots during and after the dry summer.....»»
Three-dimensional view of catalysts in action
For understanding the structure and function of catalysts in action, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in cooperation with colleagues from the Swiss Light Source SLS of Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and the Europe.....»»
The DNA regions in our brain that contribute to making us human
With only 1% difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers at the SIB Swiss In.....»»
Warming amplified in mountain environments in the Last Interglacial
Speleothems turned out to be a great stroke of luck: dripstones from two caves in the Swiss Alps provide for the first time a continuous reconstruction of temperatures during the Last Interglacial period. Paul Wilcox from the Department of Geology ha.....»»