Europas Drogenexperten schlagen Alarm: Obwohl der Konsum klassischer Rauschmittel wie Heroin, Kokain oder Cannabis in Europa zum Teil zurückgeht, überschwemmen neue Designerdrogen den Kontinent.
Wer sich für Münzen und Briefmarken interessiert, pilgert dieser Tage zur Auktion nach Wil (SG). Auch tat dies – und liess sich die teuersten Stücke zeigen.
Bereits 1970 meldete der Schweizer Physiker Martin Schadt das erste Patent für Flüssigkristalle an. Nun wurde der Erfinder der LCD-Technologie für sein Lebenswerk ausgezeichnet.
Bis ins Jahr 2035 soll 10 Prozent des Wärmebedarfs in der Schweiz durch Sonnenenergie gedeckt sein. Der Fachverband Swissolar stellt einen Plan vor, wie dieses Ziel zu realisieren sei.
Die Grimselpassstrasse könnte in Zukunft noch stärker durch Murgänge bedroht werden als heute. Eine Studie zeigt zu den bereits bekannten sechs weitere Gefahrenstellen auf.
Die Lücke zwischen den Angaben der Hersteller und dem tatsächlichen Treibstoffverbrauch von Fahrzeugen beträgt 25 Prozent. Das verringere laut Studie die Bereitschaft zum Kauf energiesparender Technologien.
In Genf hat Verkehrsministerin Doris Leuthard den ersten elektrischen Gelenkbus ohne Oberleitung eingeweiht. Das Fahrzeug lädt seine Batterien jeweils an den Haltestellen auf.
Ein internes Fehlermeldesystem, von der Swissair vor 30 Jahren initiiert, spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Sicherheitskonzept der Swiss. Spitäler ziehen nach – unter schwierigeren Bedingungen.
Seit ein Politiker Joggen mit Sex verglichen hat, ist daraus ein echter Running-Gag geworden.
Die Populationsgrösse und die Verbreitungsgebiete vieler Pflanzenarten sind in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten in der Schweiz stark geschrumpft. Nun will der Bundesrat den Rückgang der Biodiversität stoppen.
Weshalb beisst und kribbelt es uns hin und wieder? US-Forscher sind dem Symptom auf die Spur gekommen. Verantwortlich ist ein Botenstoff, der Signale von einer Nervenzelle an die andere schickt.
Eine Herzoperation für 600 Euro – das ist das Ziel des indischen Kardiologen Devi Shetty. Während Herzchirurgen im Westen nur wenige Operationen pro Woche ausführen, operieren Shettys Kollegen bis zu vier Patienten am Tag.
Neue Messungen am Paul-Scherrer-Institut bringen Physiker in Erklärungsnot: Die allgegenwärtigen Protonen sind kleiner als bisher angenommen. Existiert eine bislang unbekannte Naturkraft?
Als Viagra vor vierzehn Jahren auf den Markt kam, war das eine Revolution für Millionen von Männern. Nun läuft der Patentschutz für die Wunderpille aus – Generika-Hersteller sind vorbereitet.
Eine Studie zeigt, dass sich das Virus H7N9 direkt unter Säugetieren verbreiten kann – sogar durch die Luft. Und: Unter geeigneten Bedingungen ist eine Übertragung zwischen Menschen wohl möglich.
Fischer schlagen Alarm: Die Fischbestände im Alpenrhein seien «katastrophal». Schuld seien die unnatürlichen Schwankungen der Abflüsse der Wasserkraftwerke.
Können Viren in rohem Rindfleisch Darmkrebs auslösen? Der deutsche Nobelpreisträger Harald zur Hausen hat Zusammenhänge gefunden, die darauf hindeuten.
Forscher klonen erstmals menschliche Stammzellen: Diese Meldung ging letzte Woche um die Welt. Nachdem im Internet Zweifel an der Studie geäussert wurden, haben die Autoren «kleinere Fehler» eingeräumt.
Aus dem solarbetriebenen Schweizer Vorzeigeboot ist ein Forschungsschiff geworden. Auch dank Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Der Mord an der 19-jährigen Marie wirft Fragen zu den psychiatrischen Gutachten auf. Warum braucht es sie? Wie werden sie erstellt? Und wo passieren Fehler? Fragen und Antworten von Frank Urbaniok.
If Bryan Henderson wants to keep his job as the god of Peter Molyneux's new game, he'll have to watch his back.
Shining a laser at a graphene-based hydrogel causes the material to bend and flex as if it has joints, a response creepily demonstrated when the shape-shifting material is molded into the shape of a hand.
At a time when the word "hacktivist" is routinely used to describe random brigands and petty vandals, Jeremy Hammond stands out as the real deal. Today, the 28-year-old Chicagoan pleaded guilty to conspiring in the keystone attack of the short-lived Lulzsec/AntiSec era, a damaging December 2011 intrusion into the servers of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
The QR code has been a popular punching bag for the nonplussed tech press, but Mercedes-Benz has figured out a way to not only make the over-endowed barcode useful, but life-saving.
federal magistrate is reversing course and ordering a Wisconsin man suspected of possessing child pornography to decrypt hard drives the authorities seized from his residence. Decryption orders are rare, but are likely to become more commonplace as the public slowly embraces a technology that comes standard even on Apple computers. The orders have never squarely been addressed by the Supreme Court, despite varying opinions in the lower courts.
When it comes to broadband internet access, the U.S. still lags behind other developed nations. We don?t have the broadband connections that other countries have, and fewer people are using them.
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The founder of digital currency system Liberty Reserve has been indicted in the United States along with?six other people in a?$6 billion money-laundering scheme, according to documents unsealed today.
Amazon has reached a point in its evolution where the company is now surfing a feedback loop of dominance.
It?s clear that 3-D printing has reached its inflection point. And perhaps its hype point, too. We?ve built a magical aura around it ? sci-fi style replicator! ? but the fact is that 3-D printing is really, still, an immature technology.
Startup Dash Robotics is looking at crowdfunding less for the cash they can pocket, and more for the focus group of rabid customers they can tap into.
All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyber attack is ready to launch.
The new KIRAbook laptop from Toshiba is to-die-for gorgeous, speed-demon fast, and don't-tell-your-accountant expensive.
For many photographers, light is a means of illuminating their subjects. But for Eric Cahan, light is the subject.
Instead of refocusing Yahoo, Marissa Mayer is broadening the company. That's odd, given that Yahoo was once considered a bloated, obsolete leviathan. But it turns out giant internet conglomerates still have some big advantages.
North America and Europe have fewer square miles of surface area than the moon: 14.2 million for the two continents versus 14.6 million for Earth's natural satellite. In 1992, archiitect Madhu Thangavelu argued that explorers operating from a fixed surface base - the traditional advanced lunar exploration scenario - could hope to survey only a small fraction of moon. He proposed that NASA replace the fixed-site base approach with a "roving base" that would, in a single ambitious mission, explore multiple sites along a 6600-mile traverse route.
The rumble of volcanoes, the shock of a concussion, the action of waves. Connected sensors are translating it all into data.
The biggest public transit infrastructure effort in the US is almost completely invisible -- unless you're 160 feet underground.
Mr. Know-It-All answers your questions about Kindle books, the carbon footprint of online shopping and the ethics of reading journal articles for free.
Way out on the edge of the Painted Desert in Arizona, 70-year-old Californian artist James Turrell has spent the past three decades excavating a 389,000-year-old extinct volcano. Roden Crater, as it?s known, is Turrell?s magnum opus. Whenever it?s finally complete, this black and red cinder caldera will be a monumental naked-eye observatory to surpass any throughout history.
The Bay Lights has been heralded by many as the nexus of art and technology. But given my experience and perspective as the originator of the project, I question whether "technology" is worthy of its equal billing with "art." The massive installation is more defined by technological restraint than anything else.
This image covers a well-preserved (relatively young) impact crater about 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. The enhanced-color sample shows that the north-facing slope (on the south side of the crater) has a blue-green color but the south-facing slope has a yellowish color.
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Neuroscientist Henry Markram says he can build a supercomputer replica of the human brain. Now he has $1.3 billion to prove it.
The "life-changing" secret inside the center of Peter Molyneux's gigantic, curious cube has been revealed, and it will make one lucky teenager into a videogame god.
In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebula.
This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from the NSF's Very Large Array (pink).
Why do we binge watch? One way to answer this question is to say, well, we binge on TV for the same reason we binge on food. And these psychological factors are no doubt apt. But the anthropological ones are perhaps just as useful and a little less obvious because culture is a thing of surfaces and secrets, and the anthropologist is obliged to record the first and penetrate the second to figure out what?s really going on.
The Xbox One could have been the true center of your TV universe that let you throw all those other boxes away.
Better Place's plan to create a world full of electric vehicles that swap their batteries when they run out of juice is reportedly dead.