The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out the way to a more sustainable world. But the 17 goals are not yet firmly anchored in everyday university life.

An international team of researchers has conducted a global review of all registered industrial chemicals: some 350,000 different substances are produced and traded around the world - well in excess of the 100,000 reached in previous estimates.

Microbial communities are known to be indispensable for our planet. But surprisingly little is known about how they function.

Bioengineers are on the brink of developing artificial organisms that will open up new applications in medicine and industry.

Two research groups at ETH Zurich have joined forces to develop a novel light detector. It consists of two-dimensional layers of different materials that are coupled to a silicon optical waveguide.

An international research team has studied genetic diversity among fish around the world for the first time.