March

Speaking Swiss German is a challenge for many non-Swiss people. So now the machines are trying.

Students from Computational Science Zurich helped weather data provider Meteomatics to improve weather forecast models. The new ideas will make the predictions of cyclones more precise, which is important for many industrial applications such as insurances and the energy market.  

Global agriculture today consumes 40% of the total land area and 70% of the fresh water reserves to feed the earth’s 8 billion people.  This is neither sustainable nor efficient – especially given the steady growth of the earth’s population. ETH spin-off Yasai invented Integrated Vertical Farming to provide food for everyone without destroying the earth’s precious resources.