A Swiss team has spent the past two years developing a transparent, breathable material that it hopes will replace traditional face masks. With the spread of the coronavirus, face masks have ...

Wood is used not just for those masks, but for the houses, many propped up on stilts to keep mice at bay. Firewood, still essential protection against the bitter winter cold, is stored beneath ...

A Swiss team has spent the past two years developing a transparent, breathable material that it hopes will replace traditional face masks. With the spread of the coronavirus, face masks have become… ...

A fully transparent surgical mask that filters out germs but allows facial expressions to be seen has been developed by Swiss scientists. Caregivers should be able to wear them from the summer of ...

A Swiss startup called HMCARE, spun out of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, has raised a million Swiss Francs (equivalent to about $1.05 million) to commercialize its transparent ...

More Swiss divided over government response to coronavirus . This content was published on Mar 24, 2020 More than 40% of the Swiss are in favour of tighter restrictions by the government to stem ...

Can we expect more masks in Switzerland with the reopening of restaurants and shops?(Keystone / Alexander Becher) . Tuesday, 02 January 2024 ... Why the Swiss are reluctant to wear face masks.

Once a year, as the last icy blasts of winter begin to give way to spring, strange figures start to appear in the remote Swiss valley of the Lötschental. Clad in animal skins, with huge cowbells ...