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Swiss Reddit study on fake news stirs ethics debate

Feline felons: The issue with Switzerland’s free-roaming cats

Human rights lawyer Luz Marina Monzón Cifuentes in Bern.

A call for ‘the courage to keep fighting for peace’ in Colombia

Photo of a woman in front of Kunsthalle museum

How a Swiss fund helps Global South artists connect with rest of the world

The Swiss mega-project to transport freight underground

The Swiss militia principle – what’s it all about?

‘Collegiality’ – a concept at the heart of Swiss governance

Everything you need to know to organize your move abroad

Artificial intelligence explained

Freddie Mercury's former personal assistant speaks about the star's relationship with the town of Montreux.

Why Freddie Mercury hated then loved Montreux

How Swiss federalism emerged and shapes the nation

Photo of a woman in a recycling centre with safety helmet and high-visibility vest

Truth or tale: does Switzerland send its unusable old cars to Africa?

What you need to know to get a job abroad

Readers share their thoughts on how to die with dignity.

What does a ‘dignified death’ mean to you?

The consequences of cuts to Swiss foreign aid

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Switzerland Explained

How drug prices are negotiated in Switzerland and beyond

The circular economy: a new way of making and using things

The reality of climate change in Switzerland

How Switzerland is trying to combat climate change

Clay figure holding a Swiss flag in front of paper ship containers

Commodity trading in Switzerland, explained

Switzerland’s four languages

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What is it like to work in Switzerland?

Why is Switzerland so expensive?

How the Swiss asylum system works

How to become Swiss

Science and Tech

The Swiss mega-project to transport freight underground

Truth or tale: does Switzerland send its unusable old cars to Africa?

Lost stem cells: the scandal of a Swiss cord blood bank

What World Glacier Day is all about

What happened to the critically endangered apron fish.

Switzerland and France team up to save the apron fish

What is permafrost and why is it a threat?

A pipe from lake Constance, clogged up with quagga mussels.

Can the spread of invasive quagga mussels be stopped in Switzerland?

Discovering ancient microorganisms inside Swiss glaciers

Sara Pisano talks to students about how AI could change their futures.

Is AI making young people rethink their careers?

Lift off! Swiss students build next-gen reusable rockets

Fish stocks hit by warming lakes. Climate change seems partly to blame.

Fish species are disappearing as Swiss lakes warm up

The first major project under the federal government’s “Solar Express” scheme is being built near the village of Sedrun in southeast Switzerland.

Construction starts on first large-scale solar park in Swiss Alps

What’s inside a comet?

Swiss farms make space for beans and lentils

Demolished buildings offer new home for CO2 emissions

Pioneering research using dioxin-eating bacteria could help clean up Lausanne

Pioneering research using dioxin-eating bacteria could help clean up Swiss city

Fighting soil contamination with bacteria in Lausanne.

Pioneering research using dioxin-eating bacteria could help clean up Swiss city

The small robot aiming to explore volcanic tunnels on the moon

Switzerland’s long-standing love of cartography

Moon robots learn to walk – in Zurich

On The Record

Elena Servettaz (l) and Ekaterina Glikman (r)

Ekaterina Glikman: ‘It pains me deeply to see what’s happening in Ukraine and Russia’

Oleg Radzinsky and Elena Servettaz in Lucerne

Oleg Radzinsky: ‘I see nothing wrong with separatism’

Breaking protocol: Jojo Mayer and the machine

Mikhail Shishkin: ‘It pains me to be a Russian writer’

Picture of Sergei Pugachev and Elena Servettaz

Sergei Pugachev: Swiss banks help Putin’s people avoid sanctions

teaser picture featuring a man and a woman for a conversation about child victims of war

Child victims in Ukraine – can the trauma be cured?

Echoes from the Indian Ocean: Swiss stories of the 2004 tsunami

Swiss true crimes: the child serial killer Werner Ferrari (part 2/2)

Swiss true crimes: the child serial killer Werner Ferrari (part 1/2)

Swiss true crimes: the Wohlen double parricide

Swiss true crimes: the car park murderer who shocked Switzerland

A screenshot from the documentary on the Lauberhorn downhill race.

The Lauberhorn downhill – the mountain of fate

2nd Life – Off to Tokyo

Rebels in the snow: a history of Swiss snowboarding

Rita Christen – Switzerland’s pioneering mountain guide

Climbing the iconic Eiger mountain in Switzerland

Swiss emigrants – tearful farewells

Swiss emigrants – teething problems

Swiss emigrants – new challenges

Swiss emigrants – and then came Covid

Swiss emigrants – new plans

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Swiss emigrants – overcoming obstacles

The Swiss Miracle: Cleanliness

The Swiss Miracle: Love

Up in smoke: what happens to disposable e-cigarettes?

Günther Tschanun – the silent neighbour

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