Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed ...

In the quiet alpine village of Mulegns, Switzerland, a striking new landmark now pierces the sky, not just as an ...

Transistors are fundamental to microchips and modern electronics. Invented by Bardeen and Brattain in 1947, their development ...

Switzerland announced reforms on Friday to make its biggest bank UBS safer and avoid another crisis, hampering the global ...

In a lab in Zurich, scientists have built something that, at first glance, shouldn’t be possible. When a beam of infrared ...

In recent years, the world of optics has undergone a major shift. New research shows how light can be bent, focused, and even ...

The accumulation of microplastics in the environment, and within our bodies, is an increasingly worrisome issue. But ...

The Swiss government is this week widely expected to propose tough new capital rules for UBS following the 2023 collapse of ...

Tor Alva won’t house residents — but it stands as a spectacle that aims to lure in visitors, and breathe life into a ...

Even high-performance smart phone cameras still require a stack of lenses that often account for the thickest part of the ...

This new form of magnetism that has been discovered is made of two forms: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.

During the global financial crisis of 2008, UBS was hit by a losses in subprime debt, as a disastrous expansion into riskier ...