In 2024, the Marcel Benoist Prize was awarded in the field of humanities and social sciences. In 2025, leading figures in Swiss research from the fields of mathematics, engineering or natural sciences ...

Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 09.01.2025 - A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery.

Neuchâtel, 07.01.2025 - The consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.1% in December 2024 compared with the previous month to 106.9 points (December 2020 = 100). Inflation was +0.6% compared with the same ...

Innovative Swiss companies and universities are successfully and boldly living the energy future and putting new technologies into practice. To honour these efforts, the Swiss Federal Office of Energy ...

In the Nanovision project, researchers at Empa and the Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen are developing novel nanocomplexes that kill resistant germs and protect the eye tissue at the same time. In ...

How much money is devoted to R&D in Switzerland? Who are the main stakeholders? What are the most important types of research? And how does this compare internationally? This press conference will be ...

Bern, 08.01.2025 - Darko Savic, Director department Procurement Integrated Air Defence, will leave the Federal Office for Defence Procurement armasuisse at the end of ...

Since 1 January 2025, the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) has two units specialising in cybersecurity and the security of telecommunications networks. The Market Access and Cybersecurity ...

The coating process developed at PSI opens up new ways to increase the energy density of different types of batteries: “We can assume that our lithium fluoride protective coating is universal and can ...

Bern, 08.01.2025 - The Swiss Confederation issued two bonds by auction on 08.01.2025: 0.25%, maturity 23.06.2035 (reopening) and 0.50%, maturity 28.06.2045 (reopening). The issuance volume (excluding ...

Offers can be submitted without a price indication; in this case, they will be accepted at the issuing price. After settlement, the reopening tranches will be fungible with the corresponding ...