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Back to SearchWhat does Antarctic ice reveal about CO2 and climate shifts?
Season 7 Episode 2
We follow the 2,800-meter Antarctic ice core from Little Dome C to a -50°C lab in University of Bern, tracing how scientists extract ancient air to p…
6 months, 1 week ago
Invasive Quagga mussel Is Rewriting Switzerland’s Waterscape
Season 7 Episode 1
A fingernail‑sized invader is transforming Swiss lakes and the cost of clean water. In this episode, we track the quagga mussel from its arrival in t…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Bonus Episode - The Trends Shaping the Pharmaceutical Industry in 2026
Season 6 Episode 8
Join host, Jo Fahy, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare reporter, Jessica Davis Pluss, to weigh up the forces shaping pharma in 2026. From AI’s real g…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Bonus Episode - Inside Switzerland’s Quiet Rise as a Longevity Hub
Season 6 Episode 7
How did longevity go from a social media trend to a focus of serious science?
In this special bonus episode our host, Jo Fahy, is joined in the studio…
7 months ago
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8 months, 2 weeks ago
Rethinking Aging: Science, Society, And The Stories We Tell
Season 6 Episode 6
Want a longer life that still feels like yours? We sit down with psychologist Christina Röcke of the University of Zurich’s Healthy Longevity Center …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
How Michael Hall’s TOR Discovery Reframed Longevity Science
Season 6 Episode 5
We trace how a soil-derived drug led to the discovery of mTOR, why growth control sits at the core of aging biology, and where evidence ends for huma…
9 months, 1 week ago
Big Pharma steps up race for AI-discovered drugs
Season 6 Episode 4
What if the most valuable drug candidates aren’t found but designed on demand? We follow a chemist’s journey from a pencil-and-paper notebook to gene…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Women’s Health Meets Drug Design and Medical Research
Season 6 Episode 3
We trace how sex and gender shape drug development, from male-heavy mouse studies to the split results in Lecanemab’s Alzheimer’s trial. Experts expl…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Cracking the Alzheimer’s Code
Season 6 Episode 2
Alzheimer’s disease is more than age-related memory loss—it’s a serious brain disorder. In this episode of the Swiss Connection Science podcast, Swis…
9 months, 4 weeks ago