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Bupa Dental Care will offer Curodont Repair, a non‑invasive early‑decay treatment developed by Zug‑based vVARDIS, across its 380 UK practices. This is the second large‑scale UK provider agreement for the Swiss medtech unicorn this year, following a January deal with mydentist. The peptide‑based formulation can be applied in the dentist’s office to support enamel repair and avoid drilling and filling.

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The study prospectively evaluates two LLM‑based screening algorithms, 5‑Tier and CAL‑X, integrated into the NeutrinoReview web application at CERN. Using 1,383 unique citations from a systematic review on indoor air quality in Italy, six screening runs were executed with the LLaMA 3.1‑8B model, yielding preliminary workload reductions between 36 % and 72 % while sensitivity assessment remains pending. Final analyses will compare algorithmic and human decisions, assess sensitivity and error patterns, and explore combined configurations, with all outputs time‑stamped and embargoed for transpare…

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The study proposes a machine learning emulator that is highly interpretable for urban heat mitigation models. By classifying parameters into driving, local, and urban features, the method uses only urban features to assess cooling potential. Applied to a 2019 heat wave in Zurich, the approach improves prediction accuracy, especially when land‑use type splitting and past heat‑wave data are included, and identifies emissivity and surface albedo as actionable levers that could reduce air temperature by up to 1.68 °C and 1.32 °C respectively.

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This research explores the integration of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies to create climate-adaptive urban health surveillance systems in Morocco. It focuses on how AI-driven data analysis and IoT sensor networks can monitor environmental and health indicators to support smart city initiatives. The study aims to improve public health responses to climate-related challenges in urban settings.

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The UP4mint platform, launched by ETH Zurich and UBS, offers parents and children in Zurich a range of hands‑on activities that illustrate how science, technology, engineering, mathematics and related skills—referred to as “superpowers”—can be discovered in everyday life. It provides answers to everyday questions, such as how long pocket money will last or how a balloon can power a rocket, and supplies resources from numerous specialised organisations to help families spark curiosity in children aged 8 to 12. The initiative aims to develop data literacy, logical thinking, creative problem sol…

Source: ETH Zurich News

EPFL researchers are developing robots that either reduce their own environmental footprint or actively contribute to sustainability challenges such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and infrastructure maintenance. Projects include edible and biodegradable aquatic robots, bio‑inspired environmental monitoring platforms, and construction robotics that use reclaimed materials. The work proposes a new discipline, Sustainability Robotics, that evaluates robots on technical, environmental, social, and economic impacts.

Source: EPFL News

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, ETH Zurich and the University of Amsterdam have directly observed the optical Magnus effect for the first time using a tightly focused laser beam on a single calcium ion. The effect shows that the strongest interaction occurs slightly off-center, a shift that depends only on the light wavelength. This observation could influence precise qubit control in quantum computers.

Source: Swiss Federal Government

The Federal Finance Administration released the 2025 financial statistics, indicating a projected financing surplus of about CHF 4 billion for the general government. The gross debt is expected to increase by roughly CHF 5.4 billion, reaching CHF 353.2 billion, which represents 40.7 % of GDP. The detailed data are available on the FFA website.

Source: Swiss Federal Government

Researchers at Anthropic used the Jacobian Lens to reconstruct internal representations in modern language models, identifying a functionally privileged organizational form called the J‑Space. Experiments show that information in the J‑Space persists across multiple processing steps and causally influences subsequent processing, with targeted interventions and ablations confirming its role. Subsequent work by Nanda et al. replicated key properties of the J‑Space in the Qwen model family, providing the first empirical basis for comparing organizational forms across AI systems.

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Empa researchers in Dübendorf have documented a significant decline in metal corrosion rates over the past decades, with steel loss dropping from several tons per second worldwide to 100–150 g m⁻² yr⁻¹ in industrial sites and 30 g m⁻² yr⁻¹ at the Chaumont site. The study links reduced sulfur dioxide pollution to lower corrosion, while noting that other pollutants and climate change may still pose future risks. The research, part of the ICP Materials network, also monitors UNESCO World Heritage sites, estimating that air pollution accounts for up to 80 % of maintenance costs.

Source: Swiss Federal Government