September 2022

Growing Singapore's Food Security | Food, Energy, Water - Part 1 | Full Episode

external pageChannel News Asia features the Singapore-ETH Center's research on microalgae in its food security documentary, "Food, Energy, Water," examining Singapore's food security. It premiered on free-to-air TV on 30 September 2022.call_made 

'hello, robot' returns to vitra design museum with an expanded set of questions

external pageComplementing that exploration of digital fabrication is the ‘Eggshell Pavilion’ installation by Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich. The project showcases new digital production methods and discusses their effect on architectural design and sustainability development.call_made

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Parametric Architecture, 30 September 2022, external pageUltra-thin printed formwork ─ The Eggshell Pavilioncall_made

Douglas Mandry installs five huge shards of ‘ice’ in the Swiss alps

external pageMandry spent time with the glaciology department at the university of ETH Zürich, where he came across the term ‘gravity flow’ – describing the way ice is carved by the movement of water. Each of the sculptures echoes a cavity found beneath a glacier, based on digital models made by lowering a 3D scanner into these spaces. These hollows are created by meltwater, which has increased due to climate change.call_made

Do you work from home? Set a time, not a room

external pageFederico Magni, ETH Zurich collaborated with researchers from Bocconi University and University of Fribourg on research that won the Best Paper Award in the Organizational Behavior—General Track section at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) annual conference.call_made

...World-Record Performance for 250 GHz Optical Link

external pageLightwave Logic, Inc. and Polariton Technologies recently announced the achievement of a world-record demonstration of a 250GHz super high bandwidth electro-optical-electrical (EOE) link through a collaboration with ETH Zurich.call_made

Terahertz light from superconducting stripes

external pageETH Zurich and Harvard collaborated with Max Planck researchers to provide evidence that electron "stripes" in certain copper-based compounds may lead to a break in the material’s crystal symmetry, which persists even in their superconducting state.call_made

Blood Cancer Discovery Publication Further Validates Exscientia’s AI Precision Medicine Platform for Improving Patient Outcomes

external page“We believe performing drug screens directly in tumour tissues of cancer patients is a great step forward in understanding tumour complexity compared to traditional cell model systems. The fact that we can now harness the power of deep learning to turn these terabytes of images into actionable insights is very exciting indeed,” added Prof. Berend Snijder, Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology of the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.call_made

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The Herald Chronicle, 20 September 2022, external pageExscientia's AI Precision Medicine Platform for Improving Patient Outcomescall_made  

AITHORITY, 21 September 2022, external pageBlood Cancer Discovery...AI Precision Medicine Platform for Improving Patient Outcomescall_made

Geeky News, 22 September 2022, external pageBlood Cancer Research Releases Analysis Supporting Validation of AI-Based Precision Medicine Platformcall_made

This New Material Has Potential for a Blast Shield

The discovery of a new material may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials. Researchers at MIT, Caltech, and external pageETH Zürich have fabricated “nanoarchitected” materials — materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures. The nanometer-scale carbon struts give the material toughness and mechanical robustness.call_made  

It’s common to charge electric vehicles at night. That will be a problem.

external pageSiobhan Powell, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and the study’s lead author, says that the time to plan for expanding public and workplace charging is now. “We’re not saying, ‘Don’t have any more home charging’ or ‘limit home charging,’ ” she said. “We don’t want to discourage any charging because that’s really important for adoption. But there’s a lot of money going into charging, and we could make it as convenient to charge at work or in public as it is at home.”call_made

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NewScientist, 22 September 2022, external pageToo many electric cars charging at night may overload electrical gridcall_made

Tech Xplore, 22 September 2022, external pageCharging cars at home at night is not the way to go, study findscall_made

Electronics Weekly, 23 September 2022, external pageModelling grid effects of electric vehicle charging in the next decadecall_made

North Bay Business Journal, 27 September 2022, external pageFeds fund nationwide electric-vehicle chargers,...to save the gridcall_made

Futurity, 27 September 2022, external pageDAYTIME EV CHARGING AT WORK COULD CUT COSTScall_made

Energy Central and Gulf News, 26 September 2022, external pageToo many electric cars charging at night? Power grid may be overloadedcall_made

Toward a European carbon footprint rule for batteries

external pageTop energy, tech, and climate researchers at ETH Zurich have engaged in an informed debate over the European regulation that sets an upper carbon footprint limit for European markets.call_made  

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News AZI, 23 September 2022, external pageToward a European carbon footprint rule for batteriescall_made

Mirage, 23 September 2022, external pageToward European carbon footprint rule for batteriescall_made

Eurasia Review, 25 September 2022, external pageToward A European Carbon Footprint Rule For Batteriescall_made  

Lightwave Logic and Polariton Technologies Announce World-Record Performance for 250 GHz Optical Link

external page"...ETH Zurich's recent demonstration of a plasmonic link using both electro-optic polymers and graphene as active materials provides a peek into the future of super high-capacity optical networking. This showcases the opportunities of integrating advanced materials with established photonic platforms such as silicon photonics."call_made

Four-Legged Jumping Robots Explore Lunar Terrains

external pageResearchers working on LEAP (Legged Exploration of the Aristarchus Plateau), founded on the legged robot ANYmal and built at ETH Zürich and ETH spinoff ANYbotics presented an update to a mission concept study supported by ESA, at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 in Granada to discover some of the most difficult terrains on the Moon.call_made

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Europlanet Society, 21 September 2022, external pageFour-legged Jumping Robots LEAP to Explore the Mooncall_made  

Manufacturing Business Technology, 22 September 2022, external pageFour-Legged Jumping Robots Headed to the Mooncall_made

PHYS.org, 21 September 2022, external pageFour-legged jumping robots to explore the mooncall_made

Inferse, 22 September 2022, external pageFour-legged jumping robots to explore the mooncall_made

Inferse, 27 September 2022, external pageMoon's best friend: Robot dogs could be future lunar explorerscall_made

Robo Daily (Brussels), 22 September 2022, external pageFour-legged jumping robots LEAP to explore the Mooncall_made

News Concerns, 22 September 2022, external pageFour-legged jumping robots to explore the mooncall_made

The Jerusalem Post, 28 September 2022, external pageEuropean Space Agency to send robot dogs to explore the Mooncall_made

Ask By Geeks, 28 September 2022, external pageMoon’s best friend: Robot dogs could be future lunar explorerscall_made

MSN, 27 September 2022, external pageMoon's best friend: Robot dogs could be future lunar explorerscall_made

Talk Finance, 27 September 2022, external pageMoon’s finest good friend: Robotic canine might be future lunar explorerscall_made

Press News Agency, 27 September 2022, external pageMoon’s best friend: Robot dogs could be future lunar explorerscall_made

SPACE, 27 September 2022, external pageMoon's best friend: Robot dogs could be future lunar explorerscall_made

Verve Times, 22 September 2022, external pageFour-legged jumping robots to explore the mooncall_made

Eurasia Review, 22 September 2022, external pageFour-Legged Jumping Robots LEAP To Explore The Mooncall_made

Innovation News Network, 23 September 2022, external pageExploring the Moon with four-legged jumping robotscall_made

Researchers dumped tons of coffee waste into a forest. This is what it looks like now

In 2018, researchers from external pageETH Zurich and the University of Hawaii spread 30 dump trucks worth of coffee pulp over a roughly 100' x 130' area of degraded land in Costa Rica. The experiment took place on a former coffee farm that underwent rapid deforestation in the 1950s. "The results were dramatic." Dr. Rebecca Cole, lead author of the study, said. "The area treated with a thick layer of coffee pulp turned into a small forest in only two years while the control plot remained dominated by non-native pasture grasses."call_made  

Study reveals increased immunity evasion by Omicron BA.2.75.2

external pageIn a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers from ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, and Karolinska Institutet identified increased resistance to antibody-mediated neutralization by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sublineage BA.2.75.2.call_made

ETH Zurich: More Students Take Physics

In this back-to-school period, external pageETH Zurich, a public research university specializing in science and technology, has seen continued student interest in pursuing engineering courses and renewed interest in physics.call_made

On environmental issues, the city-country divide in Switzerland is smaller than often assumed

external pageETH Zurich's Thomas Bernauer writes, "...there is little evidence of a fundamental urban-rural disconnect in Swiss environmental policy."call_made

Scailyte Closes Series A Funding With a CHF 6 Million Investment to Develop Strategic Partnerships in Immuno-Oncology

external pageETH Zurich spinoff, Scailyte's priorities will be focused on advancing the endometriosis biomarker into the prototype validation stage in the United States as the primary target market.call_made

Listen to Space Rocks Crash Into Mars – Recorded by NASA’s InSight Lander

external pageNASA’s InSight “Hears” Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars...NASA’s InSight lander (to which ETH Zurich has made contributions) has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. These represent the first impacts detected by the spacecraft’s seismometer since InSight touched down on the Red Planet in 2018. In fact, it also marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars.call_made

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NASA Science, 19 September 2022, external pageNASA's InSight 'Hears' Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Marscall_made

South-east Asian coastal cities sinking fastest, could worsen impacts of sea level rise: Study

external pageSouth-east Asian coastal cities are sinking the fastest globally, which could amplify the impacts - such as massive flooding - of imminent sea-level rise, a recent study has found...The research study, which was done in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, ETH Zurich and Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab...(show) satellite images of 48 coastal cities globally from 2014 to 2020 that have a median sinking speed was 16.2mm per year.call_made

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ZME SCIENCE, 21 September 2022, external pageMost coastal cities are sinking faster than the sea level is rising and large parts may be submerged by 2030call_made

Alpha Galileo, 20 September 2022, external pageRapid land sinking is making many coastal cities worldwide vulnerable to sea level rise...call_made

Archynetys, 20 September 2022, external pageGlobal workforce of scientists finds that many coastal metropolitan areas...susceptible to rising sea levels...call_made

Archnynetys, 21 September 2022, external pageMost coastal towns are sinking speedier than sea stages are mounting...could be submerged by 2030call_made

Archynetys, 21 September 2022, external pageCoastal metropolitan areas threatened by climbing seas as land sinkscall_made

PHYS.org, 20 September 2022, Parts of many coastal cities are sinking faster than the sea is rising

Borneo Bulletin, 21 September 2022, external pageSoutheast Asian coastal cities sinking fastestcall_made

Mothership, 21 September 2022, external pageRapid sinking of coastal cities in Asia exacerbating sea level rise problemcall_made

PHYS.org, 20 September 2022, external pageParts of many coastal cities are sinking faster than the sea is risingcall_made

Researchers reveal AI could show how Covid-19 might evolve

external pageSai Reddy and his team at ETH Zurich research along with researchers at University of Waikato in New Zealand aim to prepare for future coronavirus variants using AI.call_made

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African News Agency, 20 September 2022, external pageScientists using AI to see how COVID-19 might evolve to prepare for future variantscall_made

The Courier Mail (Australia), 20 September 2022, external pageResearchers reveal AI could show how Covid-19 might evolvecall_made

Scientists Suggest: Plant 1 Trillion Trees to Help Cool the Planet

external pageA research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, led by Thomas, analyzed more than 80,000 high-resolution satellite photos, including protected forest areas, polar tundra, and tropical rain forests, and established a tree-covered ecosystem prediction model.call_made

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Pennsylvania Sun, 23 September 2022, external pageScientists Suggest: Plant 1 Trillion Trees to Help Cool the Planetcall_made

Celebrating International Bamboo Day: Safe Houses For 6,000 People With A Hilti Foundation Innovation

external pageRenowned academic and business partners from around the world (including) ETH Zurich from Switzerland...are conducting studies and research on bamboo as a building material, developing new application methods and also working on standards for safe use in construction.call_made

How are New Construction Materials Prioritizing Human Safety and Wellbeing?

external pageETH Zurich researchers in collaboration with researchers from the University of Fribourg have developed a new type of laminate that changes color as soon as the material is deformed.call_made

Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob

external pageBradley Nelson at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich says another use (of a robot made from magnetic fluid) may be in removing blood clots in the brain that cause strokes, but adds that creating a strong enough magnetic field to precisely move the robot inside the brain would be challenging.call_made

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Public News Time, 16 September 2022, external pageLiquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blobcall_made

Collaboration & Integration Key to Medical Additive Manufacturing

external pageWhile 3D printing using filaments on a material extrusion printer has been possible for a few years, ETH Zurich spin-off Spectroplast was the first to offer directly 3D-printed customized medical implants in silicone using a special-built stereolithography machine.call_made

AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond

external pageResearchers at Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) and Switzerland's ETH Zurich have developed a tool called GeoMatch to help resettle refugees in geographies where they are most likely to succeed in their new lives.call_made

The best sustainable designs of 2022

external pageETH Zurich's Block Research Group and Chair of Architecture and Building Systems at ETH Zurich a finalist for the best sustainable design of 2022 with the HiLo Unit.call_made

Highlights from Aichi Triennale 2022

external pageETH Zurich's Gramazio Kohler research among the highlights of the Triennale held in Aichi, Japan.call_made

Transfer of a domain pattern between magnetization and electric-polarization space achieved for the first-time

external pageResearchers from the Laboratory for Multifunctional Ferroic Materials at ETH Zurich, one of the cutting-edge groups in multiferroics researchcall_made, with colleagues from Japan and France achieved for the first-time...a process in which stored information can be transferred or translated between magnetic and electric space at will.

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PHYS.org, 13 September 2022, external pageTransfer of a domain pattern between magnetization and electric-polarization space achieved...call_made

‘Yes, but not like this!’ Why urban densification often lacks public acceptance

external page“In democratic countries, a lack of public acceptance is one of the main factors that can slow down or even block the densification of cities and metropolitan regions,” says David Kaufmann, Professor of Spatial Development and Urban Policy at ETH Zurich.call_made

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PHYS.org, 14 September 2022, external page'Yes, but not like this!' Why urban densification often lacks public acceptancecall_made

Paving the Way for Solar Fuels: Synhelion Produces Solar Syngas on an Industrial Scale for the First Time

external pageETH Spinoff, Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source.call_made

Ultrafast laser scientists wins 'Swiss Nobel Prize'

external pagePhysics professor Ursula Keller has received the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for her pioneering work in ultrafast lasers.call_made

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Photonics Media, 14 September 2022, external pageUrsula Keller Awarded Marcel Benoist Prize: People in the Newscall_made

Optics, 15 September 2022, external page“Swiss Nobel Prize” for Ursula Kellercall_made

4 promising digital technologies for circular construction

external pageDigital technologies serve as a prerequisite for a shift to circular constructions where building materials are reused, according to the op-ed by ETH Zurich professor, Catherine De Wolf.call_made

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The European Sting, 14 October 2022, external page4 promising digital technologies for circular constructioncall_made

Why Switzerland is breaking away from 500-year-old neutrality

external pageBenno Zogg, a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, comments, “Abstaining sanctions would have been a much stronger statement than adopting them. Any Swiss credibility with Western partners and Ukraine would have been lost.”call_made

Nagra repository – The costs of the repository are difficult to estimate  

external pageBut final storage does not necessarily become more expensive because you build deeper, says Simon Löw, professor emeritus for engineering geology at ETH Zurich: “Basically, the deeper you build a tunnel in the Alps, for example, the more complex it is become the circumstances. But that doesn’t have to be the case in every case.”call_made

'We can find life outside the solar system in 25 years,' researcher says

external page"We need to gain deeper understanding about the plausible building blocks of life, the pathways and the timescales of chemical reactions and the external conditions to help us prioritize target stars and target planets," said (Sascha) Quanz, co-Director of the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich.call_made

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The SCIENCE TIMES, 12 September 2022, external pageScientists Will Find Life Beyond Solar System, Exoplanets in 25 Years, Astrophysicist Claimscall_made

Interesting Engineering, 13 September 2022, "external pageWe can spot life outside the solar system in the next 25 years, says astrophysicist"call_made

Independent, 13, September 2022, external pageScience could uncover alien life within 25 years, scientist sayscall_made

Gadget Tendency, 13 September 2022, external pageAn astrophysicist from Switzerland believes that life on other planets can be found within the next 25 yearscall_made

Big World Tale, 13 September 2022, external pageAlien life breakthrough imminent as scientists predict discoverycall_made

Daily Star, 13 September 2022, external pageAliens 'will be discovered in next 25 years' according to top space boffincall_made

Mail Online, 14 September 2022, external pageAliens could be discovered within 25 years when telescopes more powerful than the James Webb...call_made

Newsbreak, 15 September 2022, external pageWe might have the technology to find life outside our solar system in the next 25 years...call_made

The Washington Examiner, 13 September 2022, external pageAstrophysicist predicts capability to detect life outside solar system in 25 yearscall_made

Metro UK, 13 September 2022, external pageWe could have proof of alien life within 25 years, says scientistcall_made

USA Today Post, 13 September 2022, external pageAlien life breakthrough imminent as scientists predict when humans will make discoverycall_made

Vigourtimes, 15 September 2022, external pageALIENS could be discovered within 25 years when more powerful telescopes are builtcall_made

The Weather Channel, 15 September 2022, external pageHumans May Find Alien Life In the Next 25 Years but Would Need Telescopes More Powerful Than JWST: Swiss Astrophysicistcall_made

Mind Matters AI, 17 September 2022, external pageNews From the Search for Extraterrestrial Life 5call_made

EXPRESS (UK), 18 September 2022, external pageExperts warn of major flaw with NASA's James Webb in obstacle for discovery of alien lifecall_made

The News (International), 15 September 2022, external pageScientist says we could find proof of aliens within 25 yearscall_made

Archyde, 15 September 2022, external pagePhysicist: We can find alien life outside our solar system within 25 yearscall_made

Perth Now, 16 September 2022, external pageTop space boffin says aliens will be discovered by 2047call_made

IFL Science, 20 September 2022, external pageWe'll Find Life Elsewhere In The Universe In Next 25 Years, Says Astrophysicistcall_made

The Green Dream to Rebuild a Sustainable Ukraine from the Rubble of War

external pageMarie-Eve Bélanger, a senior researcher at Swiss university ETH Zurich, argues that the impact of the major funding...(possibly) more than $696 million yearly as an EU candidate...represents one additional channel through which the bloc could encourage a climate-friendly reconstruction by conditioning the money to low-carbon policies, she said.call_made

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Yahoo! News, 11 September 2022, external pageThe Green Dream to Rebuild a Sustainable Ukraine from the Rubble of Warcall_made

Honest Columnist, 12, September, 2022, external pageThe Green Dream to Rebuild a Sustainable Ukraine from the Rubble of Warcall_made

Meet Killnet, Russia’s hacking patriots plaguing Europe

external page“Many in Russia see them as a hero," said Stefan Soesanto, a researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich tracking hacktivist activity in the conflict. "Killnet's aim is to make Europeans pay for their unequivocal support of Ukraine and punish Western governments for their anti-Russian sentiment."call_made

How European Startups Will Advance 3D Printing Tech in 2020

external pageSwiss innovation is clearly at the forefront when it comes to development in the sector. Just like 9T Labs, another Swiss 3D printing spin off has emerged from ETH Zurich in the form of Spectroplast. It specialises in silicone 3D printing.call_made  

Due diligence regulation – the risk of smallholder exclusion

external pageListen to this podcast with professor of environmental policy at ETH Zürich Rachael Garrett...on engaging smallholder farmer communities to deliver the data and traceability that palm oil buyers require.call_made

Why Bitcoin’s dirty price tag should alarm you

external pageA current study by the Technical College of Munich, ETH Zurich, and the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how estimates that solely 25% of the Bitcoin community’s vitality comes from renewables.call_made

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Rappler, 8 September 2022, external pageWhy Bitcoin’s dirty price tag should alarm youcall_made

Tech Telegraph, 8 September 2022, external pageWhy Bitcoin’s dirty price tag should alarm youcall_made

EP #261 - Samuel Mueller: Scandit Revisited (Podcast)

external pageSamuel Mueller is the co-founder and CEO of ETH Spinoff, Scandit, the leading technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprisescall_made.

ETH Zurich: New reaction facilitates drug discovery

external pageChemists at ETH Zurich have found a facile method that allows a commonly used building block to be directly converted into other types of important compounds. This expands the possibilities of chemical synthesis and facilitates the search for new pharmaceutically active ingredients.call_made

How AI could be the key to beating the next COVID-19 variant

external pageThere are tens of billions of potential mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, the part of the virus that allows it to penetrate host cells. So how can the global medical community prepare to respond to each one? A team of researchers from ETH Zurich in Basel, Switzerland, think artificial intelligence (AI) may be the answer.call_made

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SCIENCE BUSINESS, 6 September 2022, external pageETH Zurich: Preparing for future coronavirus variants using artificial intelligencecall_made

MED India, 6 September 2022, external pageArtificial Intelligence to Help Analyze Coronavirus Variantscall_made

Swiss agency to explore closed-loop Advanced Geothermal Systems

Innosuisse, the Swiss Agency for the Promotion of Innovation, has selected 15 projects as part of its new Flagship initiative. One project, called “AEGIS-CH,” will do a comprehensive analysis of Advanced Geothermal Systems (AGS) – closed-loop systems that use CO2 as carrier fluid. external pageThe Flagship is headed by Prof. Dr. Martin O. Saar, Founder and Head of the Geothermal Energy and Geofluids (GEG) at ETH Zurich.call_made  

3 Reasons Why Switzerland Could Be The New Silicon Valley

external pageSwitzerland’s infrastructure has played a massive role in the success of its tech industry. Take its top-ranking research institutions and universities like the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), for example...These organisations both train up the talent required for tech innovation, and give startups all the tools they need to follow through on their ideas.call_made  

Synhelion starts construction of DAWN demo plant to produce solar fuels

external pageETH Zurich spin-off Synhelion has started the construction of DAWN—its own industrial plant to produce synthetic fuels using solar heat.call_made

Academic Insight: Research yields carbon neutral jet fuel from sunlight

external pageA research group of Professor Aldo Steinfeld at ETH Zurich have developed solar technology capable of producing synthetic kerosene from water and carbon dioxide, instead of deriving it from fossil fuels.call_made  

New reaction facilitates drug discovery

external pageChemists at ETH Zurich have found a facile method that allows a commonly used building block to be directly converted into other types of important compounds. This expands the possibilities of chemical synthesis and facilitates the search for new pharmaceutically active ingredients.call_made

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Mirage, 6 September 2022, external pageNew reaction facilitates drug discoverycall_made

Are we headed for a new global recession? Economists are warning the next downturn is looming

external pageJan Egbert Sturm, Director of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich points out..."Other aspects by which we define the economy, like, for instance, the labour market, were actually doing pretty well and hence do not give yet signs of a recession," he told Euronews Next.call_made

How Axolotls Regrow Their Brains After Injury

external pageIn a new study published in Science, researchers (including researchers from the Quantitative Developmental Biology lab at ETH Zurich) have used single-​nucleus sequencing to characterize the cell populations of the axolotl forebrain, an aquatic salamander that can regenerate brain tissue post-injury.call_made

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Heromag, 4 September 2022, external pageAxolotls Can Regenerate Their Brainscall_made

Archynetys, 4 September 2022, external pageAxolotl can regenerate the braincall_made

Medical Xpress, 2 September 2022, external pageAxolotls can regenerate their brains, revealing secrets of brain evolution and regenerationcall_made

News Continue, 6 September 2022, external pageAxolotl weirdos can regrow their brains, and a new map reveals their regeneration secretscall_made

Newsbreak, 7 September 2022, external pageAxolotl weirdos can regrow their brains, and a new map reveals their regeneration secretscall_made

Techeblog, 2 September 2022, external pageScientists Discover Axolotls Can Regenerate Their Brains, Could Lead to Breakthrough...call_made

WEF Forum, 9 September 2022, external pageCracking the mystery of Axolotl brain regeneration could unlock similar potential in humanscall_made

Archynetys, 11 September 2022, external pageThese funky salamanders might aid unlock the mysteries of the mindcall_made

Inverse, 4 September 2022, external pageThese funky salamanders may help unlock the mysteries of the braincall_made

Big Think, 16 September 2022, external pageAxolotls can regenerate their brainscall_made

Switzerland’s Glaciers Are Becoming a Front-Row Seat to Climate Destruction

external pageScientists are racing to gather data from shrinking glaciers, as global warming melts ice from the Alps to the Himalayas with deadly consequences...After shutting down the Corvatsch operation on a Thursday, the wiry 42-year-old Matthias Huss (ETH Zurich) was running up to the Claridenfirn glacier in the Glarus Alps on Sunday to ensure that data measurements stretching back 108 years didn’t end up in slush sliding down the mountain.call_made

Planted closes Series B fundraising round of £61 million to accelerate ‘whole cuts’ faux meat into the market

external pageETH Spinoff and foodtech startup Planted, known for its clean-label biostructured meat, successfully closed its Series B financing round of CHF 70 million (61 million GBP).call_made

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Food Matters, 5 September 2022, external pageSwiss plant-based start-up Planted raises €72M in Series B roundcall_made

WTOC 11 Radio (USA)l, 1 September 2022, external pagePlanted Closes Series B Financing Round of CHF 70 Millioncall_made (via PRNewswire)

Global Legal Chronicle, 5 September 2022, external pagePlanted Foods AG’s CHF 70 Million Series B Financing Roundcall_made

Using AI to improve your dental care and keep you smiling

external pageSeverin Stalder, CEO of Zaamigo (an ETH Spinoff), about their AI dental camera and how it is helping to improve people’s oral hygiene.call_made

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Discovering the Origin of the Moon

external pageGeochemists, cosmochemists, and petrologists from ETH Zurich have now shed new light on the Moon’s origin storycall_made.

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Inferse, 3 September 2022, external pageOne more clue to the Moon's origin – Science Dailycall_made

SPACE Ref, 11 September 2022, external pageOne More Clue To The Moon’s Origincall_made

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ETH Zurich opens new research centre to explore the origins of life

external pageETH Zurich is opening a new research and teaching centre with a focus on exploring the origin and prevalence of life on Earth and beyond. Under the leadership of Nobel Laureate, Didier Queloz, more than 40 research groups from five departments will address the big questions posed by humankind.call_made 

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Mirage, 2 September 2022, external pageIn search of origins of lifecall_made

Get to text, 3 September 2022, external pageNew center to investigate the origin of lifecall_made

Archyde, 4 September 2022, external pageA center on the origin and existence of life created at the ETHZcall_made

Planted piles up $72M funding boost to produce meat from alternative proteins

external pageETH Zurich spinoff, Planted, a Swiss foodtech startup known for its natural bio-structured meat made from alternative proteins, has secured $72M in Series B funding.call_made

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Silicon Canals, 1 September 2022, external pageSwiss foodtech startup Planted raises €71.4M to bring ‘delicious’ meat alternatives to the tablecall_made

Tech EU, 1 September 2022, external pageMeaty affair! Swiss food tech Planted gobbles up €70 million to create ‘meat’ from alternative proteinscall_made

SEC’s microalgae project gets a stellar addition from its partner Bühler Group

external pageSingapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and Swiss Bühler Group announce the deployment of Bühler’s state-of-the-art Stellar Gemini system at SEC’s Urban Microalgae Protein project laboratory in Singapore.call_made

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TechTelegraph (UK), 1 September 2022, external pageSEC’s microalgae project employs Stellar electric field technologycall_made

The Global Miller blog, 2 September 2022, external pageSEC’s microalgae project gets a stellar addition from its partner Bühler Groupcall_made

Confectionery Production, 9 September 2022, external pageBühler Group accelerates advanced microalgae product developmentcall_made

Switzerland's vanishing glaciers threaten Europe's water supply

external pageScientists have been monitoring the shrinking of Alpine glaciers for years. A joint study by Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology and the Swiss Federal Office for Landscape compared topographic images of glaciers from the 1930s, to those from the last 10 yearscall_made

Determining why the Arctic is turning ever greener

external pageA research team from ETH Zurich and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) traveled to Spitsbergen this summer to take a closer look at the phenomenon of Arctic greening.call_made

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Quick Telecast, 31 August 2022, external pageDetermining why the Arctic is turning ever greenercall_made

Modeling the Ice Flow and Evolution of Glaciers

external pageGlaciers are crucial water resources and important sea level contributors. To accurately model glacier evolution, their mass balance and ice flow processes must be accounted for. (Op-ed by Harry Zekollari, ETH Zurich)call_made

Three Types of Robots in Construction And Manufacturing For Multiple Tasks

external pageETH Zurich that investigates the manufacturing boundaries of the Mesh Mold hardware and serves as inspiration for future generations.call_made

A new AI can finally illuminate the Moon's darkest places

An international research team headed by ETH Zurich has investigated the permanently shadowed regions of the external pageMoon with the use of artificial intelligence.call_made

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ScienceAlert, 30 August 2022, external pageThe Moon's Darkest Places Are Permanent Shadows, But Now We Can Peer Into Themcall_made (also on external pageMSNcall_made)

PHYS.org, 29 August 2022, external pageAI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the mooncall_made

SwissInfo (English), 26 August 2022, external pageSwiss scientists help find Moon landing spot for Artemiscall_made

Gadgets360, 31 August 2022, external pageDarkest Regions of the Moon Explored Using Machine Learning Ahead of NASA’s Artemis Missioncall_made

Express (UK), 30 August 2022, external pageArtemis: Artificial intelligence shines a light on the Moon’s permanently shadowed regionscall_made

India Times, 1 September 2022, external pageAI Lights Up The Dark Side of The Moon Before NASA’s Artemis Missioncall_made

Tech Post and Science, 29 August 2022, external pageAI illuminates permanently shadowed regions on the mooncall_made

Archynewsy, 28 August 2022, external pageThe dark side of the Moon visible thanks to artificial intelligencecall_made

Wonderful Engineering, 4 September 2022, external pageAll Of The Moon’s Darkest Places Can Now Be Illuminated – Thanks To This New AIcall_made

Futurity, 2 September 2022, external pageTeam Gauges Moon's Shadowed Side for Future Landingscall_made

Knowridge Science Report, 12 September 2022, external pageWhere to land on the Moon? Scientists check the shadowed side for futurecall_made

Tech Times, 12 September 2022, external pageAstrophysicist Claims that We Will Discover Life Beyond the Solar System in 25 Yearscall_made

Newly Built Quantum Scale Heat Pump to Measure Radio Frequency Signals

external pageA quantum scale heat pump has been built from light particles by physicists of TU Delft, ETH Zürich, and the University of Tübingen. This pump brings researchers closer to the quantum limit of quantifying radio frequency signals, which can be employed to hunt for dark matter.call_made

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PHYS.org, 26 August 2022, external pageQuantum heat pump: A new measuring tool for physicistscall_made

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Study: Already shrunk by half, Swiss glaciers melting faster

external pageETH Zurich, a respected federal polytechnic university, and the Swiss Federal Institute on Forest, Snow and Landscape Research...announced the findings from a first-ever reconstruction of ice loss in Switzerland in the 20th century, based in part on an analysis of changes to the topography of glaciers since 1931.call_made

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The Mainichi (Japan), 3 September 2022, external pageSwiss glaciers shrink by half since 1930s, melting faster: studycall_made

Press Stories, 13 September 2022, external pageSwiss pass buried for at least 2,000 years as glaciers meltcall_made

USA TODAY, 12 September 2022, external pageSeptember heat blazed across North Atlantic, melting ice and fueling Hurricane Daniellecall_made

Why this robot could save your life one day

external pageDesigned by ETH Zurich's Swiss-Mile team, it's an autonomous transformer delivery bot. The team expects it to be a key member of search-and-rescue teams by 2030.call_made

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Yahoo! News, 26 August 2022, external pageWhy this robot could save your life one daycall_made