The Swiss Connection
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Discover science and innovation in Switzerland with the Swiss Connection Podcast! From the tiniest particles to the vastness of space, satisfy your scientific curiosity and join our journalists while they talk to researchers working on projects ranging from rocket building and AI to medicine and climate solutions.
This podcast is produced by SWI swissinfo.ch, a multilingual public service media company in Switzerland.
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Unveiling Ancient Life: Microorganisms in Melting Glaciers in Swiss Alps
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Climate solution for the future: How to keep cities cool during heatwaves
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Turning concrete into a carbon sink: an innovative Swiss approach to decarbonizing the construction industry
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Young Swiss scientists boost rocket research
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Why Swiss scientists want to find ice on comets
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Herwig Schopper, Former CERN head has served science and peace for 100 years
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP6 Sherry Wong ‘Living in a society where capital is strong and the welfare state is weak‘
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP5 Fred Turner ‘The dream of tech companies serving humanity has turned into a nightmare‘
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP4 Pamela Munster ‘From cancer doctor to cancer patient and back again’
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP3 Connected through Innovation
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP2 Swiss start-ups in California
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley and Hippies: EP1 The potential of human beings
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Why Are leading Swiss Pharmaceutical Companies Investing in Slovenia?
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Swiss training for forensic scientists in Africa and Mexico
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Swiss Roman battle site reveals hidden secrets of historic clash
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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The Future of Aviation: Hypersonic plane powered Hydrogen designed in Switzerland
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Drones capture eDNA in cutting-edge biodiversity research in Zurich, Switzerland
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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What CERN’s next-generation particle collider could look like?
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Exploring Science in Davos: EP6 Lab 42 AI lab decoding the human brain
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Exploring Science in Davos: EP5 Snow and avalanche research in Davos
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Exploring Science in Davos: EP4 How solar cycles influence climate?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Exploring Science in Davos: EP3 Why house dust mites, pollen and food additives cause allergies?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Exploring Science in Davos: EP2 Studying bones at the AO Research Institute Davos
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Exploring Science in Davos: EP1 Orthopaedics gathering at the AO Davos Courses 2022
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Using sound to find prehistoric ruins under Lake Lucerne
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Why these Japanese patients wanted to die in Switzerland
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Why this Swiss doctor supports assisted suicide
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Meet couples saying 'I do' to gay marriage
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Why we still need pens and pencils
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Typeface designer is in love with letters
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Decrypting cryptocurrency and blockchain
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Why people love the Locarno Film Festival
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Meet the Swiss woman bringing open water swimming to Boston
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Are nuclear weapons really banned?
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Should kids be sweating for our chocolate cravings?
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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What soil sounds like and why it matters
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Are electric cars and planes the way to go?
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May 26, 2021 |
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How to clean up the gold trade
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May 12, 2021 |
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Strange days: checking in with Swiss people in America
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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What Covid-19 tells us about the pharma industry
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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How to catch a child sex offender
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Crypto – a spy thriller made in Switzerland
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Why women's suffrage took so long
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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'Swiss Johnny Cash' Florian Fox walks the line between Zurich and Nashville
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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The dirt on digging for gold
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Part 3: Why do we get nostalgic?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Part 2: Why do we get nostalgic?
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Part 1: Why do we get nostalgic?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Moving back to Switzerland in a pandemic
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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The jazz singer with Swiss folk roots
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Inside Geneva: A decade of war in Syria
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Inside Geneva: the United Nations and China
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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The sound of Nashville with a Swiss twist
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Inside Geneva: What should we be doing about human rights violations?
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Mar 07, 2020 |
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Inside Geneva: How to deal with coronavirus?
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Inside Geneva: Why humanitarian groups go to Davos
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Why simultaneous interpreting is not for the faint-hearted
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Inside Geneva: What kind of year will it be for the UN?
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Science and diplomacy hope to save Red Sea coral
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Inside Geneva: Humanitarians and counter-terror laws
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Meet the woman steering Swiss foreign policy strategy
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Learning life skills at the circus
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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Inside Geneva: How to cope with killer robots
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Mozambique: How a peace deal gets made
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Inside Geneva: Potential and pitfalls for Syrian peace talks
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Inside Geneva: How the Human Rights Council works
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Switzerland’s new US ambassador ‘fascinated’ to be in Washington
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Inside Geneva: populist rhetoric and humanitarian work
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Sep 07, 2019 |
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Discovering the secrets of Lake Geneva
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Aug 25, 2019 |