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Architecture - History / Archeology - 25.01.2023 
Sleeping together: Examining dormitories as architectural types
A recent publication explores the unique history of dormitories from the Middle Ages to present day.
Physics - History / Archeology - 17.01.2023 
Swimming Against the Current
In 1986, UZH physicist and IBM Fellow K. Alex Müller and his colleague J. Georg Bednorz revolutionized solid-state physics with the discovery of the first high-temperature superconductor.
History / Archeology - Campus - 12.01.2023
Architecture - History / Archeology - 07.12.2022 
Chalets provide insight into our relationship with mountains
Chalets have been widely adopted as the standard form of architecture for mountain homes - but according to Patrick Giromini, an architect and lecturer at EPFL, it's worth taking a close look at why.
History / Archeology - Art and Design - 24.11.2022 
Major archaeological discovery in Peru
We had met him at the beginning of the year so that he speaks to us about his archaeological excavations in Peru.
History / Archeology - Paleontology - 15.11.2022 
Vulnerable Prehistoric Giants
The remains of glyptodonts, a group of extinct giant armadillos, indicate that humans spread to South America earlier than previously assumed. Found in northwestern Venezuela, the fractured skulls could represent evidence of hunting by humans, says UZH paleontologist Marcelo Sánchez. Skilled human hunters are also likely to have contributed to pushing the large, heavily armored animals over the brink.
Architecture - History / Archeology - 24.10.2022
History / Archeology - Physics - 02.09.2022
History / Archeology - Event - 21.07.2022 
EPFL lab to digitize 1,000m2 'Swiss national treasure'
Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology, is leading the digitization and valorization of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten - a 100 x 10-meter work created in 1893 by Ge
History / Archeology - Politics - 19.07.2022
Politics - History / Archeology - 25.05.2022
Event - History / Archeology - 19.05.2022 
Honeymoon? Ethnographic Museum Shines Light on Research into East Africa Collection
A German couple goes on a honeymoon to East Africa and return with hundreds of objects, including everyday items, jewelry, musical instruments and tools.
Campus - History / Archeology - 08.03.2022
History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 18.02.2022 
The role of immigration in Zurich's historical growth
Demographer and migration specialist Mathias Lerch has shown that Zurich owes as much of its industrial era development to international immigration as it does to the rural exodus.
History / Archeology - 10.02.2022
Environment - History / Archeology - 07.12.2021 
Water Timeline: The history of Swiss water protection
How can natural resources be used more sustainably than before? This question is at the centre of many debates around social change.
Environment - History / Archeology - 08.11.2021
Agronomy / Food Science - History / Archeology - 31.08.2021 
The first farmers of Europe
A research team from the University of Bern has managed to precisely date pile dwellings on the banks of Lake Ohrid in the south-western Balkans for the first time: they came into being in the middle of the 5th millennium BC.
History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 06.08.2021 
The scientific method throughout history
SUMMER SERIES: HOW SCIENCE WORKS - Looking to the past can help us better understand the workings of science today. Jérôme Baudry, Professor at the College of Humanities at EPFL, explains how the procedures for proving and communicating scientific results have changed over time. We often hear people talk about "the scientific method" as the ultimate guarantee of rigor in experimental research, but what exactly does it entail?
History / Archeology - 30.04.2021
Religions - History / Archeology - 28.01.2021
Politics - History / Archeology - 06.01.2021
Architecture - History / Archeology - 01.12.2020 
How American architects reinvented "liquid stone"
Roberto Gargiani, an architectural historian and professor at EPFL, has penned a new history of concrete in the United States from 1940 to 1970.
Economics / Business - History / Archeology - 17.11.2020
History / Archeology - Sport - 12.10.2020 
Central Asian Horse Riders Played Ball Games 3,000 Years Ago
Researchers have investigated ancient leather balls discovered in the graves of horse riders in northwest China.
History / Archeology - Economics / Business - 29.09.2020 
Zurich Was Linked to Slavery through State Bonds, Trade and Plantations
The city of Zurich supported slavery and slave trade in the 18th century financially and played a role in the deportation of thousands of Africans.
History / Archeology - Art and Design - 04.08.2020
Architecture - History / Archeology - 21.07.2020
History / Archeology - 20.04.2020
Media - History / Archeology - 18.02.2020
History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 23.01.2020 
On the trail of the Swiss Humboldt
The Argentinian Tomás Bartoletti wants to tell history from a global perspective. Since the summer of 2019 he has been doing so at ETH Zurich, where he has been researching the story of the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi and his travels around Latin America.
Event - History / Archeology - 21.11.2019
History / Archeology - 18.06.2019 
Illustrations and first accounts of the great discoveries (16th)
The Latin version of Théodore de Bry's Voyages is available on line in its entirety for the first time.
History / Archeology - 30.04.2019
Computer Science - History / Archeology - 12.02.2019
Environment - History / Archeology - 23.10.2018 
6,4 Million Euros for research into the birth of agriculture in Europe
Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) An interdisciplinary team from the universities of Bern, Oxford and Thessaloniki was awarded a grant of 6.4 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC).
History / Archeology - Innovation - 05.07.2018 
"I'm fascinated by how teaching human sciences will evolve"
Béla Kapossy is the new director of EPFL's College of Humanities. He will take up his duties on 1 August.
History / Archeology - Event - 17.05.2018 
The Reformation and the Bolt from Above
On 7 May 1572, the heavens opened over Zurich - after years of extreme weather conditions and crop failures - and a bolt of lightning struck the Grossmünster church, the epicenter of the Zurich Reformation movement.
History / Archeology - 16.02.2018 
Time Machine in the running to become a FET Flagship
2018 will be a pivotal year for the Venice Time Machine project.
Environment - History / Archeology - 31.10.2017 
Three ways to preserve a Neolithic site
An EPFL study commissioned by the Canton of Bern has come up with three possible ways of protecting the Sutz-Lattrigen archaeological site, which offers a rare insight into the lives of pile dwellers.
Physics - History / Archeology - 10.10.2017
Life Sciences - History / Archeology - 20.09.2017
History / Archeology - Earth Sciences - 20.06.2017 
A Wooden Toe: Swiss Egyptologists Study 3000-Year-Old Prosthesis
It is likely to be one of the oldest prosthetic devices in human history: Together with other experts, Egyptologists from the University of Basel have reexamined an artificial wooden big toe. The find is almost 3000 years old and was discovered in a female burial from the necropolis of Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna close to Luxor.
History / Archeology - Architecture - 31.05.2017 
The man with cities on his mind
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani hasn't just written definitive reference works on urban planning and shaped a generation of ETH architects; he has also run numerous projects of his own.
History / Archeology - 02.05.2017 
The stories of survivors and life after the Holocaust
The «Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors» exhibition, which opens today at the ETH Zurich Archives of Contemporary History, tells the stories of how fourteen eyewitnesses survived the Holocaust and then went on with their lives.
History / Archeology - Environment - 06.04.2017 
Prehistoric alpine farming in the Bernese Oberland
Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) The people in Switzerland were on the move in the High Alps and running alpine pastures 7,000 years ago and therefore much earlier than previously assumed. A study by the University of Bern that combines archaeological knowledge with findings from palaeoecology comes to this conclusion.
History / Archeology - Environment - 01.02.2017 
Historical copper, trapped in ice
South America's mining industry supplies half the world with copper. The world's largest mines are located in the Andes.
Architecture - History / Archeology - 19.01.2017 
Bringing energy-hungry buildings up to date
As buildings evolve from energy consumers to energy producers, architecture is seeing a major paradigm shift, with building renovations becoming a real challenge.
History / Archeology - Event - 28.11.2016
History / Archeology - 22.11.2016 
Fifty years of the Archives of Contemporary History
What began as a student initiative has today become one of Switzerland's most distinguished archives.
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A recent publication explores the unique history of dormitories from the Middle Ages to present day.
In 1986, UZH physicist and IBM Fellow K. Alex Müller and his colleague J. Georg Bednorz revolutionized solid-state physics with the discovery of the first high-temperature superconductor.
Chalets have been widely adopted as the standard form of architecture for mountain homes - but according to Patrick Giromini, an architect and lecturer at EPFL, it's worth taking a close look at why.
We had met him at the beginning of the year so that he speaks to us about his archaeological excavations in Peru.
The remains of glyptodonts, a group of extinct giant armadillos, indicate that humans spread to South America earlier than previously assumed. Found in northwestern Venezuela, the fractured skulls could represent evidence of hunting by humans, says UZH paleontologist Marcelo Sánchez. Skilled human hunters are also likely to have contributed to pushing the large, heavily armored animals over the brink.
Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology, is leading the digitization and valorization of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten - a 100 x 10-meter work created in 1893 by Ge
A German couple goes on a honeymoon to East Africa and return with hundreds of objects, including everyday items, jewelry, musical instruments and tools.
Demographer and migration specialist Mathias Lerch has shown that Zurich owes as much of its industrial era development to international immigration as it does to the rural exodus.
How can natural resources be used more sustainably than before? This question is at the centre of many debates around social change.
A research team from the University of Bern has managed to precisely date pile dwellings on the banks of Lake Ohrid in the south-western Balkans for the first time: they came into being in the middle of the 5th millennium BC.
SUMMER SERIES: HOW SCIENCE WORKS - Looking to the past can help us better understand the workings of science today. Jérôme Baudry, Professor at the College of Humanities at EPFL, explains how the procedures for proving and communicating scientific results have changed over time. We often hear people talk about "the scientific method" as the ultimate guarantee of rigor in experimental research, but what exactly does it entail?
The empire strikes back
In recent years, nationalist leaders have staked claims on lost territories in order to restore the glory of former empires.
In recent years, nationalist leaders have staked claims on lost territories in order to restore the glory of former empires.
Roberto Gargiani, an architectural historian and professor at EPFL, has penned a new history of concrete in the United States from 1940 to 1970.
Researchers have investigated ancient leather balls discovered in the graves of horse riders in northwest China.
The city of Zurich supported slavery and slave trade in the 18th century financially and played a role in the deportation of thousands of Africans.
The Argentinian Tomás Bartoletti wants to tell history from a global perspective. Since the summer of 2019 he has been doing so at ETH Zurich, where he has been researching the story of the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi and his travels around Latin America.
The Latin version of Théodore de Bry's Voyages is available on line in its entirety for the first time.
Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) An interdisciplinary team from the universities of Bern, Oxford and Thessaloniki was awarded a grant of 6.4 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC).
Béla Kapossy is the new director of EPFL's College of Humanities. He will take up his duties on 1 August.
On 7 May 1572, the heavens opened over Zurich - after years of extreme weather conditions and crop failures - and a bolt of lightning struck the Grossmünster church, the epicenter of the Zurich Reformation movement.
2018 will be a pivotal year for the Venice Time Machine project.
An EPFL study commissioned by the Canton of Bern has come up with three possible ways of protecting the Sutz-Lattrigen archaeological site, which offers a rare insight into the lives of pile dwellers.
From golden emperor to filled Buddha
With PSI's neutron beams, metal objects can be rendered transparent. This helps archaeologists not only to see what is hidden in their hollow spaces.
With PSI's neutron beams, metal objects can be rendered transparent. This helps archaeologists not only to see what is hidden in their hollow spaces.
X-ray and neutron imaging for palaeontologists and archaeologists
The interior of fossils and artefacts that are hundreds, thousands and yes, sometimes millions of years old can be examined at two PSI research facilities. A conversation with Federica Marone and Eberhard Lehmann, who are opening a new view into the past with their methods. Ms. Marone, Mr. Lehmann - palaeontologists and archaeologists regularly come to you to look inside fossils and ancient objects with your non-destructive analysis methods.
The interior of fossils and artefacts that are hundreds, thousands and yes, sometimes millions of years old can be examined at two PSI research facilities. A conversation with Federica Marone and Eberhard Lehmann, who are opening a new view into the past with their methods. Ms. Marone, Mr. Lehmann - palaeontologists and archaeologists regularly come to you to look inside fossils and ancient objects with your non-destructive analysis methods.
It is likely to be one of the oldest prosthetic devices in human history: Together with other experts, Egyptologists from the University of Basel have reexamined an artificial wooden big toe. The find is almost 3000 years old and was discovered in a female burial from the necropolis of Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna close to Luxor.
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani hasn't just written definitive reference works on urban planning and shaped a generation of ETH architects; he has also run numerous projects of his own.
The «Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors» exhibition, which opens today at the ETH Zurich Archives of Contemporary History, tells the stories of how fourteen eyewitnesses survived the Holocaust and then went on with their lives.
Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) The people in Switzerland were on the move in the High Alps and running alpine pastures 7,000 years ago and therefore much earlier than previously assumed. A study by the University of Bern that combines archaeological knowledge with findings from palaeoecology comes to this conclusion.
South America's mining industry supplies half the world with copper. The world's largest mines are located in the Andes.
As buildings evolve from energy consumers to energy producers, architecture is seeing a major paradigm shift, with building renovations becoming a real challenge.
What began as a student initiative has today become one of Switzerland's most distinguished archives.
