Signals, in order.

On 16 September 2026, National Armaments Director Urs Loher will visit Prague to meet his Czech counterpart, General Jan Gurník, and discuss armaments policy, national security, European cooperation, and bilateral cooperation. He will also meet representatives from Czech defence companies Colt CZ Group and Czechoslovak Group (CSG) and will be accompanied by officials from the Federal Office for Defence Procurement armasuisse.

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The supplement details the parameters and spatial inputs of the SEALS v2.0 model, including a resolution pyramid, calibration loss illustration, full habitat‑quality validation, comparison with related downscaling models, and discussion of limitations and extensions. It describes calibration using the ESA 2000 land‑use map to match the 2015 ESA map, out‑of‑sample assessment on the 2020 map, and application of SSP‑RCP changes to the 2015 map for 2030, 2050, 2070, and 2100, with spatial‑suitability variables listed in Table S1 and adjacency effects modeled at two scales.

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The study proposes a deep learning model to classify NATM excavation-support classes from tunnel face photographs. Using MobileNetV2 and MobileNetV3‑Small on 245 photos from the BT‑05 tunnel in Osmaniye, Turkey, the models achieved macro‑F1 scores of 0.893 and 0.847 respectively, with MobileNetV2 maintaining 0.844 accuracy on an independent test. Grad‑CAM analysis confirmed predictions were based on geologically relevant features, demonstrating a fast, objective decision‑support tool for on‑site geotechnical assessment.

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State Secretary Markus Mäder, State Secretary for Security Policy, will travel to The Hague from 16 to 17 September 2026 for bilateral talks with senior representatives of the Dutch Ministries of Defence, Interior, and Foreign Affairs, as well as the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security. He will also meet Sabrina Dallafior, Director‑General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to discuss the current challenges facing the Chemical Weapons Convention and the long‑standing cooperation between Switzerland and the OPCW. This will be Mäder’s first wo…

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Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute have produced a cold, high‑intensity muonium beam using superfluid helium, enabling precise tests of the universality of free fall for second‑generation particles. The experiment aims to measure how muonium, a neutral atom composed of a muon and an electron, falls under Earth’s gravity, potentially revealing deviations from Einstein’s equivalence principle. The team plans to use an interferometer to detect minute gravitational effects and also intends to apply the beam to laser spectroscopy for improved measurements of muon properties.

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ETH Zurich’s Cleanroom Facility Basel and its sister facilities in Zurich provide state‑of‑the‑art environments for fabricating CMOS microelectronic chips, sensors, and semiconductor lasers. The rooms maintain strict temperature, humidity, and particle‑control standards, enabling researchers to produce structures as small as 500 nm and to test drug‑testing chips with human cells. The facilities are open to students, faculty, and industry partners, supporting a wide range of scientific projects.

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The HPQ physics building at ETH Zurich’s Hönggerberg campus is under construction, designed to provide highly stable environments for sensitive experiments, including quantum computing research. The building will feature a six‑storey basement with vibration‑isolated labs, temperature control to 0.01 °C, and modular layouts to accommodate evolving research needs. Construction began in 2010, with the first basement level underway and the first floors expected to be completed by the end of 2024, and the building will house about 500 researchers and 22 professorships by 2030.

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Swiss-based Odne, an innovator in endodontic treatments, has entered a capital and business alliance with Japanese manufacturer MANI, Inc. MANI will invest in Odne and obtain exclusive distribution rights for its products in Japan, while both companies plan to collaborate on expanding Odne’s root canal treatment technologies globally and exploring further cooperation in Asian markets.

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Swiss-Italian startup Ferm Labs AG announced the closing of a €3M funding round to expand its bioprocessing platform that produces saltless, clean‑label flavour enhancers for industrial food manufacturers. The capital will be used to increase bioprocessing capacity in South Tyrol, grow the European B2B sales force, and scale R&D headcount for new product categories. The round was led by CDP Venture Capital’s Green Transition Fund with participation from Fund F, Redstone, and the Loacker Group.

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Flottando, a Geneva‑based software startup, announced the closing of a pre‑seed funding round led by HFGA Investment Holding, marking its first institutional capital after three years of bootstrapping. The company, which has built and deployed its AI‑powered fleet intelligence platform with hundreds of Italian and European firms, is now exiting stealth and adding HFGA’s Luca Ziche to its board as a strategic advisor. The funding and board addition signal confidence in Flottando’s AI‑driven approach to reducing the “Fragmentation Tax” in corporate fleet management.

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