Sacrifice before the cataclysm: the aromas of Pompeii’s household altars

Scientific expeditions require months of planning before scientists can acquire the first data. A bark cuts through the Arctic silence, waking Anna up.

Thanks to next-generation endoscope technology developed at EPFL, surgeons can navigate hard-to-reach areas of the human body with extreme precision, enabling new minimally invasive procedures.

Planetary scientists at ETH Zurich have shown that the material that makes up the Earth originates exclusively from the inner solar system. This also sheds new light on the history of our planet's formation. 

A study by UNIGE and MHNG shows that 240-million-year-old coelacanths could hear underwater using an ossified lung.