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  1. ‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever.

    The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time.

    mediafaro.org/article/20251218

    #Switzerland #LakeGeneva #Water #Environment #Wildlife #Conservation #Biodiversity #InvasiveSpecies #NorthernIreland #BlackSea

  2. 🌊✨ A previously overlooked type of wave undulates under water along the shores of #LakeGeneva. The current is so strong that it plays a key role in how substances are dispersed in the #water. The #wave was discovered by researchers supported by the SNSF.

    Read more 👉 sohub.io/ucl4

  3. 💧🧪 As part of the Lémanscope citizen-science initiative, 700 volunteers took more than 3,400 measurements on Lake Geneva, providing crucial data on the transparency and color of the lake's water. This high turnout was a welcome surprise for the project team. We spoke with Natacha Pasche, the scientist behind the initiative, which will come to a close in February, 2026.

    go.epfl.ch/3cc794

    #EPFL #citizenscience #LakeGeneva

  4. The computers that run on human brain cells – Nature

    • NEWS FEATURE
    • 11 November 2025

    The computers that run on human brain cells

    Move over silicon: scientists want to use neurons to make powerful computers with minuscule energy needs.

    By David Adam

    Illustration by Paweł Mildner

    In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as computers do. Research teams from around the world can send the blobs tasks, in the hope that they will process the information and send a signal back.

    Welcome to the world of wetware, or biocomputers. In a handful of academic laboratories and companies, researchers are growing human neurons and trying to turn them into functional systems equivalent to biological transistors. These networks of neurons, they argue, could one day offer the power of a supercomputer without the outsized power consumption. Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

    The results so far are limited. But keen scientists are already buying or borrowing online access to these brain-cell processors — or even investing tens of thousands of dollars to secure their own models.

    Some want to use these biocomputers as straightforward replacements for ordinary computers, whereas others want to use them to study how brains work. “Trying to understand biological intelligence is a very interesting scientific problem,” says Benjamin Ward-Cherrier, a robotics researcher at the University of Bristol, UK, who rents time on the Swiss brain blobs. “And looking at it from the bottom up — with simple small versions of our brain and building those up — I think is a better way of doing it than top down.”

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The computers that run on human brain cells

    Tags: Biocomputers, Biological Intelligence, Brain-cell processors, How Brains Work, Lake Geneva, Nature, Scientific Problem, Wetware

    #biocomputers #biologicalIntelligence #brainCellProcessors #howBrainsWork #lakeGeneva #nature #scientificProblem #wetware