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Environment - 28.09.2023
Two catastrophic years obliterate 10% of glaciers
Two catastrophic years obliterate 10% of glaciers
One extreme year follows another. Glaciers in Switzerland lost 6% of their volume in 2022. However, 2023 saw 4% destroyed, representing the second largest decline since measurements began.

Research Management - Event - 28.09.2023
State Secretary Hirayama in Japan for a working visit and the inauguration of a new Swissnex location

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 28.09.2023
Cutting food waste every step of the way
Cutting food waste every step of the way
Every year over a billion tons of food worldwide are thrown away or perish, at a hefty environmental and climate cost.

Life Sciences - Health - 28.09.2023
Cloëtta Jubilee prize awarded to two ETH professors in Basel
Cloëtta Jubilee prize awarded to two ETH professors in Basel

Health - 28.09.2023
Tetris to the rescue of women who have experienced traumatic childbirth
Tetris to the rescue of women who have experienced traumatic childbirth
Playing Tetris for fifteen minutes can prevent psychological trauma in mothers after a difficult birth: so suggests a large-scale study conducted at CHUV and HUG and published in Molecular Psychiatry.

Life Sciences - Event - 28.09.2023
FMI science prizes — winners 2023

Physics - Materials Science - 28.09.2023
SLS 2.0: 'Dark time' during the upgrade
SLS 2.0: ’Dark time’ during the upgrade
The Swiss Light Source SLS at PSI will shut down temporarily as part of a major upgrade project. It will come back online in 2025, ready to supply even more powerful synchrotron light than ever for innovative scientific experiments. At 8 a.m. on the morning of Saturday 30 September, the Swiss Light Source SLS, one of PSI's five large research facilities, will be shut down.

Innovation - 28.09.2023
Together to the recyclable house

Computer Science - 28.09.2023
Enhancing AI robustness for more secure and reliable systems
Enhancing AI robustness for more secure and reliable systems
Researchers at EPFL have uncovered a fundamental flaw in the training of machine learning systems and elaborated a new formulation for strengthening them against adversarial attacks.

Research Management - Campus - 27.09.2023
ETH Zurich again in 11 th place in the newest world ranking
ETH Zurich again in 11 th place in the newest world ranking

Health - Life Sciences - 27.09.2023
A major advance in the understanding of brain tumors
A major advance in the understanding of brain tumors
Researchers at the Department of Oncology (UNIL-CHUV) have published an in-depth analysis in the prestigious journal "Cell", shedding light on the hitherto unknown functions of neutrophils in brain tumor environments. Brain tumors remain one of the most complex medical challenges of our time, affecting thousands of lives every year.

Innovation - Campus - 27.09.2023
35 years of IDSIA USI-SUPSI

Research Management - 27.09.2023
University rankings, USI among the best 300 universities according to Times Higher Education

Innovation - 26.09.2023
Inartis Foundation - QART Innovation Challenge

Event - 26.09.2023
Opening of a book to help you learn French and Swiss culture
Opening of a book to help you learn French and Swiss culture
Kimberley Perrenoud, a former student at the University of Neuchâtel, will be unveiling her book Parlons suisse ! at the Institut de langue et civilisation françaises (ILCF) on Monday October 2.

Innovation - Computer Science - 26.09.2023
Two USI studies presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023
Two research studies carried out at USI by Professor Piotr Didyk from the Faculty of Informatics were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH, the world's largest computer graphics conference.

Environment - 26.09.2023
«Ungulates eat the trees of the future»
In many Swiss forests, and especially in protection forests, there is a lack of tree regeneration. One reason is the impact of red deer, chamois and roe deer, which browse on tree saplings or rub their antlers against young trees.

Life Sciences - Health - 26.09.2023
Deciphering the secrets of the brain
Deciphering the secrets of the brain
PSI researchers are to receive funding from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its "BRAIN Initiative".

Event - 25.09.2023
Opening Event Theme Lab
Opening Event Theme Lab "Reception and Development of Liechtenstein Law

Health - Life Sciences - 25.09.2023
Animal experimentation: back to the pre-Covid situation
Animal experimentation: back to the pre-Covid situation
In line with federal figures, animal experimentation at UNIL-CHUV has risen by 4% in 2022. This slight increase is due to the increased use of zebrafish, the boom in cancer research and, above all, the post-Covid catch-up.

Politics - Media - 25.09.2023
News Coverage in Major Media Outlets Is Politically Balanced
News Coverage in Major Media Outlets Is Politically Balanced
Media Research In the run-up to elections and referendums, the news media play an important role in shaping public opinion.

Materials Science - Microtechnics - 25.09.2023
Three researchers appointed professors
Three researchers appointed professors

Social Sciences - Economics - 25.09.2023
Postal services with high legitimacy,Public service media have lowest backing
Postal services with high legitimacy,Public service media have lowest backing
In an international study, the Gallup AG Switzerland polling institute and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts examined the legitimacy of 25 primary care organizations in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Campus - 25.09.2023
’I try not to sacrifice my private life’

Campus - 25.09.2023
"I try not to sacrifice my personal life".

Health - Life Sciences - 24.09.2023
Forum Geneva 2023 - Le salon de carrière
New study in Science Immunology shows that individuals with Parkinson's disease exhibit decreased levels of CD8+ memory T cells and fail to generate memory T cells in response to COVID-19 vaccination.

Innovation - Materials Science - 22.09.2023
It's a technology jungle out there! Here's some orientation
It’s a technology jungle out there! Here’s some orientation
The new Technology Outlook of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) showcases the most important findings of numerous Swiss experts from science and industry for a prosperous future. In the areas of Energy and Environment, Manufacturing Processes and Materials as well as Life Sciences, eleven scientists contributed to the identification of the most important trends and their impact on technology and society.

Campus - 21.09.2023
Five professors appointed
Five professors appointed

Health - Pharmacology - 21.09.2023
32'000 hospital admissions in Switzerland due to drug side effects
32’000 hospital admissions in Switzerland due to drug side effects
A joint study by the Universities of Lucerne and Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich and Swissmedic shows for the first time comprehensively how many people in Switzerland were admitted to hospital due to medication side effects. Despite the legal obligation, only a small proportion of these were reported in the eight-year observation center period.

Physics - 21.09.2023
Warming up! 30 years of fusion research at EPFL
Warming up! 30 years of fusion research at EPFL

Environment - Life Sciences - 21.09.2023
Ecologist Anita Risch elected to the WSL directorate
On 21 September 2023, the ETH Board elected Anita Risch to the WSL Directorate. The ecologist and private lecturer at ETH Zurich researches the interactions and functions of animals, plants and soil organisms in ecosystems around the world.

Art and Design - Campus - 20.09.2023
Nina Mekacher new head of the Department of Conservation and Restoration
Nina Mekacher new head of the Department of Conservation and Restoration

Research Management - 20.09.2023
QS Rankings, USI among the top ten European universities for internationality and research quality

Health - Life Sciences - 20.09.2023
HIV reservoirs continually stimulate the immune system
HIV reservoirs continually stimulate the immune system
Scientists at CHUV and the University of Lausanne have shown that in people living with HIV and taking antiretroviral treatment, cells functioning as "reservoirs" continue to produce parts of the virus that continually stimulate the immune system. This discovery opens the way to new therapeutic approaches.

Economics - Life Sciences - 20.09.2023
From postdoc to entrepreneur
After a 1.5-year postdoc in the Liberali lab — where he co-developed and tested a new microscope to track the development of organoids in real time — Andrea Boni co-founded a company that provides live-imaging systems based on a revolutionary microscopy technology.

Architecture - Event - 20.09.2023
As physical and digital spaces intersect, new architectures emerge
As physical and digital spaces intersect, new architectures emerge

Materials Science - Physics - 19.09.2023
3D insights into an innovative manufacturing process
3D insights into an innovative manufacturing process
3D printing can produce highly complex shapes. But printing ceramic objects with the help of a laser is a more difficult challenge. Now researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time taken tomograms revealing what happens at microscopic level during this fabrication process. The findings will help improve this very promising technology.

Environment - Campus - 19.09.2023
How can we save energy for later?
Converting electricity into hydrogen in order to store sustainable energy over a longer period is a hot topic. With the expertise and the tools of researchers, a master's student at ETH Zurich has investigated whether the use of a so-called power-to-hydrogen-to-power system in a multi-family house makes sense.

Health - Computer Science - 19.09.2023
How to mend a broken heart
How to mend a broken heart
EPFL is collaborating with academic and industrial partners to develop a cardiac intervention simulator. This platform is designed to train interventionalists in much the same way as flight simulators are used to train pilots. More and more cardiac interventions are now performed by inserting a small tube called a catheter into a blood vessel in the arm or groin, and from there into the heart chambers.

Sport - 19.09.2023
"It’s important to believe in yourself"

Campus - Health - 18.09.2023
New Students and PhD Candidates at Swiss TPH
New Students and PhD Candidates at Swiss TPH

Campus - 15.09.2023
ETH continues to grow
ETH continues to grow

Campus - Transport - 15.09.2023
Win-win situation in Winterthur: coordinated development brings many advantages
Win-win situation in Winterthur: coordinated development brings many advantages
The ZHAW requires additional space in Winterthur. The canton of Zurich will coordinate the further development of the university closely with the city of Winterthur and align it with its planning.

Campus - Health - 15.09.2023
More Master's Students at UZH
More Master’s Students at UZH

Architecture - 14.09.2023
Teaching placed front and center on EPFL's Lausanne campus
Teaching placed front and center on EPFL's Lausanne campus

Materials Science - Innovation - 14.09.2023
Accelerating battery research with robots
Accelerating battery research with robots
Researchers want to accelerate the development of urgently needed new energy storage systems with the help of the Aurora battery robot.

Materials Science - Research Management - 13.09.2023
EU invests ¤150 million in sustainable batteries
EU invests ¤150 million in sustainable batteries

Transport - 12.09.2023
From zero to one hundred in 0.956 seconds
From zero to one hundred in 0.956 seconds
Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have broken the previous world record for acceleration with their hand-built electric racing car, mythen.

Earth Sciences - 12.09.2023
Ocean acidification in coloured stripes
Ocean acidification in coloured stripes

Religions - History / Archeology - 12.09.2023
Wide-Ranging Cases of Sexual Abuse in Swiss Catholic Church
History An independent team of historians was given unprecedented access to archives of the Swiss Catholic Church to investigate cases of sexual abuse within the church. The researchers have now documented 1,002 cases of sexual abuse committed by Catholic clerics, church staff and members of Catholic orders that have occurred in Switzerland since the mid-20th century.