AI diagnostics are solving problems, but they're also creating new ones
AI is changing so much in the world of healthcare, including diagnosing illnesses. The technology means this can be done much faster and mor...
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The Swiss Connection
Swiss stories for the world with host Susan Misicka. In every episode we cover a universal topic with strong Swiss ties. You’ll be surprised at how much "Swissness" there is out there.
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20 of 97 episodesSynthetic fuel can cut emissions without new engines: what's the catch?
What if we told you there was a way to cut emissions from your car and it didn’t involve any changes to the engine? A Swiss chemical enginee...
AI for everyone: how to open up public debate
Who does AI really serve in the end? Is it the people? The companies that profit from this technology? Or is the truth more nuanced? On this...
Life without Big Tech: a Swiss experiment
Send us Fan Mail Switzerland wants greater digital sovereignty. But how easy is it to break free from Google, Apple and Microsoft? Two Swiss...
Are court cases a way to tackle climate change?
Send us Fan Mail In this episode host Jo Fahy talks to swissinfo.ch journalist Luigi Jorio about how ordinary people have been using the leg...
Building a Swiss FabLab: the future of Switzerland’s semiconductor strategy
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Swiss Connection science podcast, we're digging into the push to create a Swiss FabLab, a shared chi...
How Bangladesh adapts to erosion, floods, and rising seas
Send us Fan Mail Where do people go when the water takes their land? Guided by a three-year ETH Zurich study and first-hand voices, we trace...
How does Switzerland deal with the food waste problem?
Send us Fan Mail A bin bag can tell you a lot about a country. We follow the trail of rubbish from Swiss kitchen cupboards and discover why...
A Swiss community living on 2,000 watts
Send us Fan Mail What does a good life look like when you cap your energy use at 2,000 watts? We take you inside Zurich’s "Hunziker Areal",...
What Antarctic Ice Reveals About CO2 And Climate Shifts?
Send us Fan Mail We follow the 2,800-meter Antarctic ice core from Little Dome C to a -50°C lab in University of Bern, tracing how scientist...
Invasive Quagga mussel Is Rewriting Switzerland’s Waterscape
Send us Fan Mail A fingernail‑sized invader is transforming Swiss lakes and the cost of clean water. In this episode, we track the quagga mu...
Bonus Episode - The Trends Shaping the Pharmaceutical Industry in 2026
Send us Fan Mail Join host, Jo Fahy, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare reporter, Jessica Davis Pluss, to weigh up the forces shaping pharma...
Bonus Episode - Inside Switzerland’s Quiet Rise as a Longevity Hub
Send us Fan Mail How did longevity go from a social media trend to a focus of serious science? In this special bonus episode our host, Jo Fa...
Special announcement: Season wrap for longevity, please try out Lost Cells
Send us Fan Mail Lost cells on Apple , Spotify and any where you listen to your podcasts. SWI swissinfo.ch is a public service media company...
Rethinking Aging: Science, Society, And The Stories We Tell
Send us Fan Mail Want a longer life that still feels like yours? We sit down with psychologist Christina Röcke of the University of Zurich’s...
How Michael Hall’s TOR Discovery Reframed Longevity Science
Send us Fan Mail We trace how a soil-derived drug led to the discovery of mTOR, why growth control sits at the core of aging biology, and wh...
Big Pharma steps up race for AI-discovered drugs
Send us Fan Mail What if the most valuable drug candidates aren’t found but designed on demand? We follow a chemist’s journey from a pencil-...
Women’s Health Meets Drug Design and Medical Research
Send us Fan Mail We trace how sex and gender shape drug development, from male-heavy mouse studies to the split results in Lecanemab’s Alzhe...
Cracking the Alzheimer’s Code
Send us Fan Mail Alzheimer’s disease is more than age-related memory loss—it’s a serious brain disorder. In this episode of the Swiss Connec...
Swiss Longevity clinics: modern-day snake oil or the key to healthy ageing?
Send us Fan Mail The search for the elixir of life has been going on since time immemorial – and Switzerland has played a key role. Although...