Culture and society
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The World Bank’s clients are leaving the building Many emerging countries are switching to development banks whose majority backers aren’t the Western industrial nations.
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When helping isn’t enough Dreadful donation statistics in Switzerland: the role of patient organisations in the debate about organ donations.
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Science as a career When Basel’s newspaper was liberal Africa is ageing quickly
In pictures
6 A wandering marker pen Debate
8 State funding for the media?
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Christian Rellstab, Eawag
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Keystone/Marcel Bieri
Wikimedia Commons/Shiny Things
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Knowledge and politics
Biology and medicine
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The university – an institution for the upper and middle classes The Swiss scholarship system is a real federal mess. What can we do to ensure equality of opportunity for everyone in education?
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“Showcasing damages science” Most science communication is propaganda, says Pius Knüsel. It only offends people if you offer them pre-digested signifiers of the importance of science.
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Technology: still a man’s job Careers in technology and the natural sciences have too many vacancies. 3,500 school students offer us possible reasons why.
Fieldwork
24 Winning a race against time
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Diversity lost for ever Despite the improved water quality of many lakes, their original water flea species will never return.
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“Their breasts become threatening” The sociologist Maria Caiata Zufferey is researching into how women with a higher genetic risk avoid getting breast and ovarian cancer.
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The changing face of the AIDS virus With its ability to recombine, HIV is a headache for researchers.
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Earwigs: The chemistry has to be right The risk of illness in junk DNA Fighting Parkinson’s with genetic engineering
Access all areas
50 Only international scholarship can achieve universal validity
How does it work?
49 Measuring altitude Swiss National Science Foundation – Swiss Academies: Horizons No. 103
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