Zurich-Reckenholz, 05.11.2024 - Agroscope is launching a field trial with winter wheat bred using a new method. Researchers are hoping to find new disease resistances that are useful for further ...

New psychoactive substances are synthetic substances with narcotic-like effects. They are sold as intoxicants and also called designer drugs. Their consumption is a health risk: it is not known how ...

Bern, 05.11.2024 - The Federal Office for Defence Procurement armasuisse has completed the evaluation for a new artillery system and selected a type. It is planned to apply to Parliament for the ...

Neuchâtel, 04.11.2024 - The Swiss residential property price index (IMPI) rose in the 3rd quarter 2024 compared with the previous quarter by 0.5% and reached 118.2 points (4th quarter 2019 = 100).

This year's Empa Innovation Award goes to a team from Empa and ETH Zurich led by Alexander Jessernig, Alexandre Anthis and Inge Herrmann for their SensAL technology for the early detection of ...

Bern, 04.11.2024 - The fifth European Political Community (EPC) Summit will take place in Budapest on Thursday, 7 November. President Amherd will represent Switzerland at the meeting, which will be ...

Neuchâtel, 04.11.2024 - More than half of the 16- to 25-year-olds with an asylum background who arrived in Switzerland in 2017 had completed a post-compulsory programme within five years. This is much ...

Neuchâtel, 01.11.2024 - The consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.1% in October 2024 compared with the previous month to 107.1 points (December 2020 = 100). Inflation was +0.6% compared with the same ...

Bern, 29.10.2024 - Next week the Federal Council, led by President Viola Amherd, will receive the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, for a state visit. The Federal Council’s invitation to ...

In December 2016, the OAG initiated criminal proceedings against VW AG and AMAG AG on suspicion of corporate criminal liability (Art. 102 para. 1 Swiss Criminal Code [SCC] in conjunction with Art. 146 ...

This year, the Cyber Start-up Challenge took place for the fifth time. The Cyber-Defence Campus called for innovative solutions in the area of “Safety of artificial intelligence” in May 2024. The ...

The portal, which is available in five languages, receives around 20 million queries a year. It laid the foundations for citizen-centred communication on the part of Switzerland’s authorities and will ...