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The Swiss Connection — 92 episodes

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Building a Swiss FabLab: the future of Switzerland’s semiconductor strategy

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How Bangladesh adapts to erosion, floods, and rising seas

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How does Switzerland deal with the food waste problem?

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A Swiss community living on 2,000 watts

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What does Antarctic ice reveal about CO2 and climate shifts?

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Invasive Quagga mussel Is Rewriting Switzerland’s Waterscape

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Bonus Episode - The Trends Shaping the Pharmaceutical Industry in 2026

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Bonus Episode - Inside Switzerland’s Quiet Rise as a Longevity Hub

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Special announcement: Season wrap for longevity, please try out Lost Cells

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Rethinking Aging: Science, Society, And The Stories We Tell

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How Michael Hall’s TOR Discovery Reframed Longevity Science

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Big Pharma steps up race for AI-discovered drugs

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Women’s Health Meets Drug Design and Medical Research

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Cracking the Alzheimer’s Code

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Swiss Longevity clinics: modern-day snake oil or the key to healthy ageing?

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Listen again: Herwig Schopper, Former CERN head has served science and peace for 100 years

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Lost Cells, Ep.6: The Canaries

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Lost Cells, Ep.5: In Limbo

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Lost Cells, Ep.4: The Hunt

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Lost Cells, Ep.3: The Program

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Lost Cells, Ep.2: Seeds of Hope

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Lost Cells, Ep.1: The Promise

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Lost Cells is out now!

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Unveiling Ancient Life: Microorganisms in Melting Glaciers in Swiss Alps

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Climate solution for the future: How to keep cities cool during heatwaves

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Turning concrete into a carbon sink: an innovative Swiss approach to decarbonizing the construction industry

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Young Swiss scientists boost rocket research

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Why Swiss scientists want to find ice on comets

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Herwig Schopper, Former CERN head has served science and peace for 100 years

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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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Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP5 Fred Turner ‘The dream of tech companies serving humanity has turned into a nightmare‘

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Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP4 Pamela Munster ‘From cancer doctor to cancer patient and back again’

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What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP3 Connected through Innovation

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What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP2 Swiss start-ups in California

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What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley and Hippies: EP1 The potential of human beings

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Why Are leading Swiss Pharmaceutical Companies Investing in Slovenia?

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Swiss training for forensic scientists in Africa and Mexico

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Swiss Roman battle site reveals hidden secrets of historic clash

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The Future of Aviation: Hypersonic plane powered Hydrogen designed in Switzerland

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Drones capture eDNA in cutting-edge biodiversity research in Zurich, Switzerland

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What CERN’s next-generation particle collider could look like?

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Exploring Science in Davos: EP6 Lab 42 AI lab decoding the human brain

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Exploring Science in Davos: EP5 Snow and avalanche research in Davos

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Exploring Science in Davos: EP4 How solar cycles influence climate?

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Exploring Science in Davos: EP3 Why house dust mites, pollen and food additives cause allergies?

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Exploring Science in Davos: EP2 Studying bones at the AO Research Institute Davos

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Exploring Science in Davos: EP1 Orthopaedics gathering at the AO Davos Courses 2022

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Using sound to find prehistoric ruins under Lake Lucerne

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Why these Japanese patients wanted to die in Switzerland

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Why this Swiss doctor supports assisted suicide

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Meet couples saying 'I do' to gay marriage

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Why we still need pens and pencils

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Typeface designer is in love with letters

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Decrypting cryptocurrency and blockchain

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Why people love the Locarno Film Festival

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Meet the Swiss woman bringing open water swimming to Boston

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Are nuclear weapons really banned?

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Should kids be sweating for our chocolate cravings?

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What soil sounds like and why it matters

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Are electric cars and planes the way to go?

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How to clean up the gold trade

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Strange days: checking in with Swiss people in America

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What Covid-19 tells us about the pharma industry

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How to catch a child sex offender

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Crypto – a spy thriller made in Switzerland

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Why women's suffrage took so long

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'Swiss Johnny Cash' Florian Fox walks the line between Zurich and Nashville

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The dirt on digging for gold

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Part 3: Why do we get nostalgic?

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Part 2: Why do we get nostalgic?

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Part 1: Why do we get nostalgic?

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Moving back to Switzerland in a pandemic

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The jazz singer with Swiss folk roots

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Inside Geneva: A decade of war in Syria

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Inside Geneva: the United Nations and China

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The sound of Nashville with a Swiss twist

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Inside Geneva: What should we be doing about human rights violations?

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Inside Geneva: How to deal with coronavirus?

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Inside Geneva: Why humanitarian groups go to Davos

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Why simultaneous interpreting is not for the faint-hearted

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Inside Geneva: What kind of year will it be for the UN?

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Science and diplomacy hope to save Red Sea coral

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Inside Geneva: Humanitarians and counter-terror laws

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Meet the woman steering Swiss foreign policy strategy

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Learning life skills at the circus

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Inside Geneva: How to cope with killer robots

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Mozambique: How a peace deal gets made

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Inside Geneva: Potential and pitfalls for Syrian peace talks

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Inside Geneva: How the Human Rights Council works

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Switzerland’s new US ambassador ‘fascinated’ to be in Washington

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Inside Geneva: populist rhetoric and humanitarian work

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Discovering the secrets of Lake Geneva