The Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta and the Swiss venture PlanetSolar are hosting a celebration of the Atlantic crossing in the largest solar boat worldwide.

A leading Swiss research institute has joined forces with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) to promote discovery to improve hearing and other sensory systems.The collaborative effort between the American university in Boston and Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) is the result of an initiative by Switzerland’s biotech billionaire, Ernesto Bertarelli.

World record on the Gotthard: The longest railway tunnel in the world has become a reality. On 15 October 2010 in the east tunnel, 30 km from the north portal and 27 km from the south portal, the final breakthrough of the Gotthard took place. At about 14:30, the tunnel boring machine, drilling from Faido, broke through the last metre of rock on the route to Sedrun.

After several tough selection stages, both Swiss E-Tracer® cars are the international leaders and have good prospects of taking home the “Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE” on September 16, 2010, in Washington, D.C.