Improving Reading Skills by Playing Action Video Games
An Italian-Swiss team demonstrates children reading skills can be improved through a novel child-friendly action video game. Decoding letters into sound is a key point…
An Italian-Swiss team demonstrates children reading skills can be improved through a novel child-friendly action video game. Decoding letters into sound is a key point…
A team from the UNIGE demonstrates that certain soft incentive techniques, known as “nudges,” are effective in getting people to change their behavior. Developed by…
UNIGE Scientists have discovered how the absence of a genetic switch can lead to malformations during embryonic development. Embryonic development follows delicate stages: for everything…
Geologists from the UNIGE and Peking University have developed a technique that makes it possible to estimate the maximum size of a future super-eruption of…
By implementing artificial intelligence techniques similar to those used in autonomous cars, a team from the UNIGE and the UniBE, in partnership with the company…
A team from UNIGE has implemented a new way to secure data transfers based on the physical principle of relativity. The volume of data transferred…
Swiss and German scientists show that activation of the immune system oscillates throughout the day, with a peak just before the start of the day….
Scientists at UNIGE are demonstrating how cold could alleviate the symptoms of multiple sclerosis by depriving the immune system of its energy. In evolutionary biology,…
Astrophysicists led by the UNIGE and the NCCR PlanetS have investigated the past of Venus to find out whether Earth’s sister planet once had oceans….
Astronomers from the UNIGE have observed the composition of the gases in our galaxy and have shown that, contrary to the models established until now,…
An UNIGE team shows that the maternal voice reduces signs of pain in premature babies when they undergo life-saving medical interventions. A baby born prematurely…
An international team, led by the UNIGE, has investigated five astronomical objects that could help us understand the mysterious nature of brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs…
By identifying the mechanism of toxicity induced by immunotherapies, scientists from UNIGE and from the Harvard Medical School are paving the way for cancer treatments…
By identifying one of the mechanisms regulating the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a UNIGE team is proposing a new strategy to combat this bacterium, which…
Geologists led by the UNIGE have reviewed the internal and external mechanisms that trigger volcanic eruptions to better anticipate the potential signs of a future…
A team of Swiss and international climate scientists has shown that the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayan region and the Tibetan…
Scientists at the UNIGE have shown that the response of the retina to light depends not only on the intensity of the light perceived by…
Research teams from UNIGE have discovered that the cytoskeleton of the malaria parasite comprises a vestigial form of an organelle called conoid, initially thought to…