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Life Sciences - 08.11.2024
Monitoring invasive species: a USI project funded by COST
Monitoring invasive species: a USI project funded by COST

Event - Materials Science - 08.11.2024
Rosa Menéndez receives this year's Erna Hamburger Award
Rosa Menéndez receives this year's Erna Hamburger Award

Health - Campus - 07.11.2024
Free from fears: online the first video dedicated to dementia diagnosis, ’Catching the signs: The keys’

Innovation - Materials Science - 07.11.2024
Technology transfer at Empa
Technology transfer at Empa

Environment - Economics - 07.11.2024
Sustainable funds: biodiversity as a new challenge
Sustainable funds: biodiversity as a new challenge
After years of rapid growth, sustainable funds are currently facing headwinds. Not so in Switzerland, where retail banks in particular are focusing on green products.

Economics - Innovation - 06.11.2024
Czech President visits ETH Zurich
Czech President visits ETH Zurich

Life Sciences - Campus - 06.11.2024
The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg!
The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg!
A cell division resembling that of an animal embryo has been observed in a prehistoric unicellular organism, suggesting that embryonic development might have existed prior to the evolution of animals. Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii.

Transport - Environment - 06.11.2024
When the excavator hums instead of buzzes
When the excavator hums instead of buzzes
Electric cars are no longer a rarity on the roads. But on Swiss construction sites, electrically powered excavators or trucks are still a rarity.

Life Sciences - 05.11.2024
Rainer Friedrich receives ERC Synergy Grant to study mechanisms of intelligent behavior
Rainer Friedrich receives ERC Synergy Grant to study mechanisms of intelligent behavior

Health - 05.11.2024
ERC Synergy Grant for Sebastian Kozerke
ERC Synergy Grant for Sebastian Kozerke

Environment - Research Management - 05.11.2024
Nathalie Dubois awarded ERC Synergy Grant
Nathalie Dubois awarded ERC Synergy Grant

Health - Pharmacology - 05.11.2024
New criteria to avoid the over-diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
A global expert panel led by HUG, UNIGE and the Salpêtrière Hospital advocate that clinical signs as well as biomarkers must be taken into account.

Innovation - Economics - 05.11.2024
Smart Refrigeration: this new AI technology reduces energy use, breakdowns, and food loss in supermarkets 
Smart Refrigeration: this new AI technology reduces energy use, breakdowns, and food loss in supermarkets 

Physics - Architecture - 04.11.2024
EPFL raises the bar on high-precision research
EPFL raises the bar on high-precision research

Microtechnics - Innovation - 04.11.2024
The snake that saves lives

Health - Innovation - 04.11.2024
Sensor protects against life-threatening complications of abdominal surgery
Sensor protects against life-threatening complications of abdominal surgery

Health - Environment - 04.11.2024
Children Will Experience Four Times More Extreme Events Due to Climate Change

Physics - 01.11.2024
Iron detection method based on high-resolution magnetic field camera
Hochschule für Life Sciences Iron detection is important in many areas, from the food industry to health research and machine maintenance.

Architecture - History / Archeology - 31.10.2024
Two ISA project on for the four-year period 25-28
Two ISA project on for the four-year period 25-28

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 31.10.2024
From Yiddish to English: How the bagel came to America
Over time, the English language has acquired quite a few Yiddish words, such as bagel. Some are now no longer even recognizable as such.

Environment - 31.10.2024
Natural pesticide for the production of protein-rich microalgae
Natural pesticide for the production of protein-rich microalgae
In times of climate crisis and food shortages, the cultivation of microalgae is a promising solution that could fundamentally change the way we produce animal feed, bioplastics or biofuel.

Computer Science - Campus - 31.10.2024
20 years of Informatics: a review by Dean Marc Langheinrich

Chemistry - Environment - 30.10.2024
Precise layering in catalysts for building sustainable chemicals
Precise layering in catalysts for building sustainable chemicals
EPFL chemical engineers have developed a way to build metal clusters - with near atomic precision - in a method that has the potential to improve catalysts and accelerate chemical reactions including turning carbon dioxide into high value chemicals like methanol.

Environment - Electroengineering - 30.10.2024
Strengthening the Swiss electricity grid with copper and brains
Strengthening the Swiss electricity grid with copper and brains
A secure supply of electricity from renewable energies can only succeed if we also modernise the grid infrastructure.

Environment - 29.10.2024
Clear the way for effective climate protection in destinations
Clear the way for effective climate protection in destinations
Calculate and improve climate footprint more effectively thanks to new model So far, there have been no concepts for tourism in the net-zero climate strategy, partly due to a lack of concrete data.

Life Sciences - 29.10.2024
Laure Plantard: A journey through microscopy, mountains and inclusion

Environment - Innovation - 29.10.2024
Linda Strande takes over as Head of the Sandec Department
Linda Strande takes over as Head of the Sandec Department
The mission of Eawag's Sandec department is to find global solutions for safe sanitation and clean drinking water.

Campus - Career - 28.10.2024
Graduation ceremony with 290 successful graduates

Campus - Computer Science - 28.10.2024
Twenty Years of Computer Science: A Successful Bet

Innovation - Materials Science - 28.10.2024
His delicate filament scaffolds allow cells to grow perfectly
His delicate filament scaffolds allow cells to grow perfectly
Pioneer Fellow Hao Liu uses lasers to produce microfilament structures to grow biological tissue in the lab for research and medicine - from muscle tissue to cartilage.

Innovation - 27.10.2024
Seeing-eye canes and robotic guide dogs
Seeing-eye canes and robotic guide dogs

Architecture - 25.10.2024
The FHNW Institute of Architecture wins the Swiss Arc Award 2024 in the "Next Generation" category

Event - Campus - 25.10.2024
’Doppio Sguardo. Riflessioni Visive’, an exhibition to meditate on the value of images

Life Sciences - 25.10.2024
A new study on the natural trapping mutant TMX5 and the proteostatic factor ERp44

Environment - Earth Sciences - 24.10.2024
'Geoengineering will not solve the problem of climate change'
’Geoengineering will not solve the problem of climate change’

Environment - Politics - 24.10.2024
The road to Net Zero is rocky, but feasible
The road to Net Zero is rocky, but feasible
A sustainable transition to a climate-friendly and biodiversity-rich Switzerland is only possible if we tackle the energy transition, climate change mitigation and biodiversity loss together.

Materials Science - Chemistry - 24.10.2024
The fireproof battery
The fireproof battery
Originally developed for electric cars, nowadays they supply mobile phone antennas with electricity, and tomorrow perhaps entire districts: The salt battery is a safe and long-lasting battery technology with huge potential. researchers are collaborating with an industrial partner to further develop these special batteries.

Health - Innovation - 23.10.2024
Play yourself healthy: successful rehab thanks to VR
Play yourself healthy: successful rehab thanks to VR
With the help of VR glasses and playful exercises, tele-rehabilitation of patients is to be made more attractive.

Innovation - Economics - 23.10.2024
Sit back and move forward with ease
Steering and navigating manual wheelchairs on pavements costs wheelchair users a lot of energy and places a strain on their joints.

Economics - Computer Science - 22.10.2024
AI tools developed for Swiss banks and insurance companies
Industries such as retail and tourism have long relied on AI programs such as ChatGPT to support them in their daily work. The new "IFZ Generative AI in Finance Study" by Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts shows for the first time what banks and insurance companies can learn from other industries when using such generative AI software.

Environment - Architecture - 22.10.2024
Towards comfortable, interactive and zero-carbon buildings
Towards comfortable, interactive and zero-carbon buildings
In the future, buildings will provide enhanced, more personalized comfort to occupants while also achieving zero carbon emissions. This will be possible thanks to advances in sensors and AI, enabling new ways of interacting with our environments while leaving ultimate control in occupants' hands. Yet, as users, we'll also need to make lasting changes to our habits.

Environment - 22.10.2024
Beautiful new campus
Beautiful new campus

Innovation - Event - 22.10.2024
The best ETH invention: presenting the Spark Award finalists for 2024
The best ETH invention: presenting the Spark Award finalists for 2024

Health - 21.10.2024
Pink October: focus on breast cancer
Pink October: focus on breast cancer
Recent evidence shows that one in nine women are diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime.

Media - Innovation - 21.10.2024
SRG is not crowding out private news media
SRG is not crowding out private news media
People who use SRG news also consume commuter, tabloid, and subscription media more frequently than those who do not. Furthermore, the use of SRG news does not detrimentally affect people's willingness to pay for online news. These are the findings of the Yearbook Quality of the Media 2024 published by the University of Zurich's Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög).

Health - Pharmacology - 21.10.2024
A look at infectious diseases in Ticino
A look at infectious diseases in Ticino
How widespread are infectious diseases in Ticino today? Enos Bernasconi, professor at the Faculty of Biomedicine of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and deputy head physician at Ente Ospe

Health - Research Management - 18.10.2024
The Swiss National Science Foundation funds nine research projects presented by USI

Astronomy / Space - 18.10.2024
Researchers from the University of Bern involved in NASA mission
Researchers from the University of Bern involved in NASA mission
NASA's Europa Clipper was launched on October 14, 2024, on its mission to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Microtechnics - 18.10.2024
Team RSL at Cybathlon: when four legs are another pair of hands
Team RSL at Cybathlon: when four legs are another pair of hands

Health - 17.10.2024
20 Years of Pioneering HIV and Chronic Disease Care in Rural Tanzania
20 Years of Pioneering HIV and Chronic Disease Care in Rural Tanzania
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