Officials at Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, are pressing ahead with plans for a new machine that would be at least…
View More Cern aims to build €20bn atom-smasher to unlock secrets of universeTag: Switzerland
Ski resorts battle for a future as snow declines in climate crisis
After promising early dumps of snow in some areas of Europe this autumn, the pattern of recent years resumed and rain and sleet took over.…
View More Ski resorts battle for a future as snow declines in climate crisisZero-degree line at record height above Switzerland as heat and fire hit Europe
A Swiss weather balloon had to climb to an unprecedented 5,300 metres (17,400ft) before the temperature fell to 0C (32F), meteorologists have said, as a…
View More Zero-degree line at record height above Switzerland as heat and fire hit EuropeParalysed man walks using device that reconnects brain with muscles
A man who was paralysed in a cycling accident in 2011 has been able to stand and walk with an aid after doctors implanted a…
View More Paralysed man walks using device that reconnects brain with musclesMicrobes discovered that can digest plastics at low temperatures
Microbes that can digest plastics at low temperatures have been discovered by scientists in the Alps and the Arctic, which could be a valuable tool…
View More Microbes discovered that can digest plastics at low temperatures‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens
The scenes are rare enough in mid-summer; in early March, they are unprecedented. Lac de Montbel in south-west France is more than 80% empty, the…
View More ‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsensScientists steer lightning bolts with lasers for the first time
Scientists have steered lightning bolts with lasers for the first time in the field, according to a demonstration performed during heavy storms at the top…
View More Scientists steer lightning bolts with lasers for the first time‘The new normal’: how Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisis
Europe’s most severe drought in decades is hitting homes, factories, farmers and freight across the continent, as experts warn drier winters and searing summers fuelled…
View More ‘The new normal’: how Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisisLarge Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart on Friday after a three-year hiatus and is expected to resolve a scientific cliffhanger on whether a mysterious…
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