Cleaning up streets, castles and FIFA

Here are the top stories we’re following the week of September 7: Monday Politicians head for Bern for the start of the three-week autumn parliamentary session. Debates on what to do with Zurich-based FIFA (Tuesday and Thursday) and asylum-seekers (Wednesday and Thursday) are expected to get the headlines. Tuesday Nano, nano! Scientists are engineering tiny particles at the nano-scale to deliver medicine to specific cells in the human body. Nanomedicine allows much greater precision than is possible with traditional drugs, and Switzerland has recently joined an unprecedented scientific collaboration between Europe and the United States to speed up the development of nano-based treatments.  Wednesday The chances are you can’t get through the day without reading a typeface that has been designed in Switzerland. But while Helvetica and Univers conquered the world in the 1950s, how are Swiss typographers expressing their ...