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The European Union (EU) has drafted the worlds first law regulating artificial intelligence (AI). Where does that leave non-member Switzerland?

Another international climate summit has closed, and once again the final outcome is mixed. How useful are these annual climate gatherings?

Exercise and social activities cause an important region of the brain to age more slowly, according to researchers at the University of Zurich.

In the future, flight attendants will no longer have to press a button to count passengers boarding an aircraft.

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), researchers can read snow depths in Switzerland from satellite images.

Many exotic souvenirs may not be imported into Switzerland. The environmental protection organisation WWF has created an online guide.

This year the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75. Some highlights from our interviews to all UN Human Rights chiefs.

This year the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75. Some highlights from our interviews to all UN Human Rights chiefs.

Japan has started releasing wastewater from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. A Swiss lab has played a vital role in making sure the dumping of contaminated water meets international standards. The discharges continue to stoke fears among some locals and neighbouring countries like China. On March 11, 2011, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japans main island, generating a tsunami that killed 18,000 people. When the deadly wave h...

NGOs urge Switzerland to close the remaining gaps in its human rights protection system.