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Swedish wireless equipment maker Ericsson and Switzerland's STMicroelectronics say they will lay off up to 1,600 workers globally as part of a plan for splitting up their unprofitable joint venture. http://phys.org/news282824946.html Technology Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:29:14 EST news282824946 Wireless equipment maker Ericsson posted a 6.46 billion kronor ($1.02 billion) loss in the fourth quarter due to a massive one-time charge, but said Thursday its sales rose 5 percent as mobile operators invested in broadband networks. http://phys.org/news278828716.html Technology Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:25:23 EST news278828716 (AP)—Sea Launch AG says it has placed a communication satellite into orbit for global provider Eutelsat. http://phys.org/news273780142.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:02:30 EST news273780142 A reactor at a Swiss nuclear plant that automatically shut down due to a defect was brought back online Thursday evening, the operator said. http://phys.org/news272812521.html Technology Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:15:31 EST news272812521 A reactor at a Swiss nuclear plant shuts down automatically Wednesday due to a defect, the operator said, stressing that the procedure had been completely safe. http://phys.org/news272741679.html Technology Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:34:47 EST news272741679 A Swiss engineering group said Wednesday it has developed a new circuit breaker that will help utilities transfer power over longer distances, making for more efficient and reliable electric supplies. http://phys.org/news271515457.html Technology Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:57:49 EST news271515457 Switzerland's national rail company accused Apple Inc. on Friday of stealing the iconic look of its station clocks for the iOS 6 operating system used by iPhone and iPad mobile devices. http://phys.org/news267427445.html Technology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:24:19 EST news267427445 In no other country in Europe do more children surf the Web using their mobile phones than in Switzerland. As a study by the University of Zurich shows, children in Switzerland are adept at handling social media—they don't surf the Net extensively and only four percent have set their social network profile to "public". http://phys.org/news267355270.html Technology Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:21:19 EST news267355270 Poland on Thursday becomes the 20th member of the European Space Agency, the country's economy ministry announced. http://phys.org/news266741916.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:58:42 EST news266741916 Solar Impulse, the solar-powered aircraft that last week was forced to abandon a bid to fly across the Moroccan desert, will make a second attempt, said a member of the project team Wednesday. http://phys.org/news259410164.html Technology Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:22:51 EST news259410164 (Phys.org) -- Swiss researchers at EPFL have developed a device intended for monitoring and saving the energy consumed by large data centers. It was developed in collaboration with Credit Suisse, which has used it to equip the power of its server racks. http://phys.org/news257407552.html Technology Mon, 28 May 2012 07:06:00 EST news257407552 People incapable of reading and writing will have access to text messages from now on. A system using vocal synthesis, icons and contact management allows people to send and read text messages by those normally unable to read and write. It is already being used in Switzerland. http://phys.org/news256988185.html Technology Wed, 23 May 2012 10:36:31 EST news256988185 (AP) -- Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars. http://phys.org/news254472388.html Technology Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:46:37 EST news254472388 At Geneva International Airport, SRB Energy delivered the first of the solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems of Switzerland. Ultimately, some 300 high-temperature solar thermal panels will cover a surface of 1200 square metres on the roof of the airport’s main terminal building. The panels, which will be used to keep the buildings warm during the winter and cool in the summer, are derived from vacuum technology developed at CERN for particle accelerators. http://phys.org/news250764803.html Technology Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:53:48 EST news250764803 A two-man research team from Germany and Switzerland has discovered how the decomposition of dead dinosaurs triggered strange deformations of fossilised dinosaurs. The finding counters what most researchers believed, i.e. that the dinosaurs' twisted posture was the result of death spasms. http://phys.org/news249033715.html Other Sciences Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:20:02 EST news249033715 A new study provides compelling evidence that the arrival of the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird to mainland Europe and subsequent spread has led to a rapid decline in historically-widespread species of ladybird in Britain, Belgium and Switzerland. http://phys.org/news247810639.html Biology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:17:27 EST news247810639 Lithuania's central bank said Friday it had been hit by a cyber-attack, but had eventually overcome the assault on its website and other online services. http://phys.org/news246884518.html Technology Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:20:01 EST news246884518 Expansion joints are a nightmare in the maintenance of highway bridges. After a few decades, the junction points between the structure and the road begin to show signs of deterioration. Scientists at EPFL are attempting to do away with this costly technique, and have set up a life-size experiment on the campus. http://phys.org/news239441649.html Technology Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:34:23 EST news239441649 (PhysOrg.com) -- History is filled with examples of ethnic violence, the type that erupts when people with differing cultures attempt to live side by side. The Middle East comes to mind, as does Northern Ireland or Yugoslavia. What’s not so common are studies done that show what sorts of things actually work to prevent problems when people of dissimilar backgrounds live next door to one another. Thus, a new study done by Yaneer Bar-Yam and his team at the New England Complex Systems Institute, appears to be particularly relevant. He and his colleagues, describe in their paper on the preprint server arXiv, how a study they’ve done of the ethnically diverse country of Switzerland, shows that political and geographical boundaries have served to keep the peace between the different groups. http://phys.org/news237711357.html Other Sciences Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:56:15 EST news237711357 IBM Research today announced that it has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers to conveniently charge electric vehicles and monitor their energy costs, using mobile devices. This near real-time information will also help utility providers better manage power grid loads during peak charging times – a challenge that is set to grow as more electric vehicles are on the road. http://phys.org/news237700775.html Technology Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:59:47 EST news237700775 EPFL's Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory is working with Crealp (Center for Research on Alpine Environments) in Sion to model sediment deposits carried by the Naviscence River. They are simulating possible scenarios for the future of the Zinal ski area, which could be threatened by the river. These research results could be applied elsewhere in the Valais canton. http://phys.org/news233830600.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:58:42 EST news233830600 Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse returned to Switzerland Sunday from Paris' Le Bourget airport, where it been on show, the plane's team said. http://phys.org/news228933932.html Technology Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:45:45 EST news228933932 (PhysOrg.com) -- During the last ice age, the Rhone Glacier was the dominant glacier in the Alps, covering a significant part of Switzerland. Over the next 11,500 years or so, the glacier, which forms the headwaters of the Rhone River, has been shrinking and growing again in response to shifts in climate. http://phys.org/news226575630.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:30:01 EST news226575630 Switzerland's solar-powered aircraft is expected to attempt its first international flight as early as next week to Brussels, the team managing the project said on Thursday. http://phys.org/news223188166.html Technology Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:43:09 EST news223188166 A Swiss court said Monday that it has ordered Internet giant Google to make all images of individuals and vehicle plates unrecognisable on its Street View picture map, so as to comply with privacy rules. http://phys.org/news221153886.html Technology Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:30:01 EST news221153886 Significant differences were observed between the overall survival curves for the two countries; compared with the Swiss curve, the Canadian curve showed a quicker drop at the early stages of burial and poorer survival associated with prolonged burial," writes Dr. Pascal Haegeli, Simon Fraser University, with coauthors. "Poorer survival probabilities in the Canadian sample were offset by significantly quicker extrication (median duration of burial 18 minutes v. 35 minutes in the Swiss sample)." http://phys.org/news219929895.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:38:57 EST news219929895 Outside the small village of Meyrin, Switzerland, horses graze quietly in fields lined by the Jura mountains. You'd never know it by the idyllic landscape, but 300 feet below the Swiss-French border, the Large Hadron Collider is searching for the secrets of the universe. A 17-mile circular tunnel houses the world’s largest atom smasher that is once again firing high-energy proton beams. http://phys.org/news217748148.html Physics Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:36:15 EST news217748148 A giant drilling machine punched its way through a final section of Alpine rock on Friday to complete the world's longest tunnel, after 15 years of sometimes lethal construction work. http://phys.org/news206337914.html Technology Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:05:32 EST news206337914 The team which successfully conducted a round-the-clock flight powered by the sun, Solar Impulse, said Tuesday it is planning three test flights across Switzerland as it ramps up preparations for long-haul journeys. http://phys.org/news203081951.html Technology Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:50:04 EST news203081951 (AP) -- A Swiss team planning to circle the globe in a solar-powered plane has postponed a 24-hour test flight because of an equipment problem. http://phys.org/news197174932.html Technology Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:00:01 EST news197174932