T-Rex skeleton to go under hammer in Switzerland
A Tyrannosaurus-Rex skeleton dating back 67-million years will be auctioned in Switzerland next month, marking the first such sale in Europe, the auction house said Saturday......»»
The 7 most powerful weapons in the MCU
Marvel movies usually have tons of weapons like the Infinity Gauntlet and Thor's hammer. Digital Trends ranks the seven most powerful weapons in the MCU......»»
Moderna CEO made $400M last year—2,435x the median salary of employees
The report from Stat looks at the outsize gains health care executives reap. Enlarge / Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel during a Bloomberg Television interview on the closing day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on.....»»
Moderna CEO made $400M last year—2,435X the median salary of employees
The report from Stat looks at the outsize gains health care executives reap. Enlarge / Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel during a Bloomberg Television interview on the closing day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on.....»»
Modeling the future of glaciers and the new ecosystems that will develop as deglaciation occurs
A team of geologists and geoscientists affiliated with several institutions in Switzerland and two in France, has created a model designed to predict the amount of glacier loss up to the year 2100 and the ecosystems that will arise in their place......»»
Bear–human coexistence reconsidered
The media uproar over wolf attacks on livestock in Switzerland and a bear attack in Italy show how charged the issue of large carnivores and humans coexisting in Europe is. ETH Zurich researcher Paula Mayer has now created a participatory model to he.....»»
Evolutionary forces shape the human skeleton
Genetic kinship analyses of human bones reach their limits if the DNA is poorly preserved or if destructive sampling is not possible. New research shows that in such cases, comparisons of the structure and shape of certain parts of the skeleton may a.....»»
Fossil reveals leaf-eating among earliest birds
A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed the oldest evidence for birds eating leaves, marking the earliest known evolution of arboreal plant.....»»
Development of atactic C-C main chain polymer with a high melting point
Polymers with carbon–carbon (C-C) bonds (C-C polymers) in the main chain skeleton such as polyethylene and polypropylene are important industrial materials and are utilized as common plastics......»»
One dead after "likely tornado" hits Switzerland
One person was killed and around 15 others injured in northwestern Switzerland on Monday after a "likely tornado" struck a city in the Jura mountains, causing significant damage......»»
Fossil study shows coelacanths thrived in Switzerland after a mass extinction
The study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triassic period, with a strange morphology for these fish known as "living fossil," show the formation of several species in a short time, after a mass extinction that occurred 252 million year.....»»
Biophysicists reveal how three proteins interact to fine-tune cellular movement
A single human cell teems with as many 100,000 different proteins. Actin is one of the most abundant and essential of them all. This protein forms into filaments that help make up the skeleton of cells, giving them shape. And as the actin filaments e.....»»
Research team reports on widespread illegal trade of hazardous chemicals
Researchers from Switzerland and China have studied the global trade in highly hazardous chemicals subject to a global treaty—the Rotterdam Convention. The results are sobering: Nearly half of the total trade volume of these chemicals crosses natio.....»»
Everything in balance? How a molecular switch controls lipid metabolism
Our body's fat metabolism plays a vital role in energy production in our body. A research team at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has discovered a molecular switch that regulates lipid metabolism in our cells. This switch controls the storage o.....»»
English dialects make themselves heard in genes, say researchers
If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"?.....»»
Football pitch of tropical forest lost every 5 seconds
Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released Tuesday revealed......»»
New genomic mechanisms of fish survival in the extreme cold revealed
An international team based at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the U.K., the University of Oslo in Norway as well as institutes in the Netherlands, Switzerland and the U.S. has sequenced the genomes of 24 Antarctic fi.....»»
Week in review: Fortinet patches pre-auth RCE, Switzerland under cyberattack
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Building a culture of security awareness in healthcare begins with leadership In this Help Net Security interview, Ken Briggs, General Counsel at Sa.....»»
Miniature snail in a rock sandwich: Study describes first fossil record of thorn snails in the southern US
Researchers from the U.S. and Switzerland, including Senckenberg scientist and first author Dr. Adrienne Jochum, have described the first fossil Carychium land snails from Florida. The rock layer containing the snail fossils, which are only a few mil.....»»
Switzerland under cyberattack
Swiss government websites are under DDoS attacks, but several ransomware gangs have also turned their sights on Swiss government organizations, cantonal governments, cities and companies in the last few months. Government sites under DDoS attacks .....»»
Cholera bacteria found to form an aggressive biofilm to kill immune cells
Bacteria harness the power of communities. A research group at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has now discovered that the bacterial pathogen that causes cholera forms a novel type of bacterial community on immune cells: an aggressive biofilm t.....»»