In the Media - October 2023

3D-printed ceramics boost solar fuel efficiency

external pageETH Zurich has developed a new ceramic 3D printing process to develop bespoke structures that can significantly increase the efficiency of producing carbon-neutral solar fuel.call_made  

Tiny networks intertwine to mimic design of bird colors

external pageThe bright plumage of birds is often a feast for the eyes, but it has been a headache for scientists who have struggled to recreate the photonic nanostructures that generate those colors in the lab. The team's paper, "Elastic Microphase Separation Produces Robust Bicontinuous Materials," published in Nature Materials. The lead author is Carla Fernández-Rico, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (research conducted at Cornell).call_made

BLINDSPOTS

external page“Blindspots” from Pegalo Pictures premiered this week on the Curiosity Stream network featuring legally blind presenter, James Rath who tested a new CYBATHLON Vision Assistance Race and experienced ETH Zurich and its the ETH Student Project House in one of the episodes in the series.call_made Watch via subscription on: external pagehttps://curiositystream.com/call_made

Exploring the Alternative Protein Food Source Landscape

external pageMicroalgae proteins are not currently widely used in the food industry as the processing technology required to generate them on a large scale is still in its infancy. However, that has not stopped scientists from working on product development in the background with scientist at ETH Zurich currently developing an alternative to prawns using microalgal proteins as just one example.call_made

Secretary-General's Advisory Body Members - Artificial Intelligence

external pageOn 26 October 2023, the Secretary-General, at a press conference in New York, announced the creation of a new Artificial Intelligence Advisory Body on risks, opportunities and international governance of artificial intelligence. That body will support the international community’s efforts to govern artificial intelligence and includes Andreas Krause, Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland as a member.call_made

Minerals in ancient meteorites offer insights into the origin of most of the Earth's surface

external pageDr. Sandrine Péron is exploring elements that came with it to Earth to learn more about the early solar system. Péron is a geochemist at ETH Zürich, a university in Switzerland, and a native of France...Péron leads an EU-funded research project called VolatileOrigin, which runs for 29 months through April 2024. It focuses on two noble gases in the Earth's crust: krypton and xenon.call_made

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How Queen hit We Will Rock You could help treat killer diabetes, scientists claim

external pageSwiss researchers said new technology could help increase insulin levels in patients - and avoid problems with background noise. Professor Martin Fusenegger, of ETH Zurich, said: “Our designer cells release insulin only when the sound source with the right sound is played directly on the skin above the implant.”call_made

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The Exclusome, A New Mammalian "Container"

external pageDr. Ruth Kroschewski talks about her latest research that details the existence of an 'exclusome', a cytoplasmic container that appears to explain where extra-chromosomal DNA goes once it is in a cell. She discusses why the exclusome's discovery is so exciting for understanding mammalian cells and some of its potential functions.call_made

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EU launches plan to make wind power profitable again

external pageThe EU Commission presented a European Wind Power Action Plan to ensure the bloc will be able to reach its ambitious 2030 targets, but warns the system increases the financial risk for developers...researchers at the Climate Finance and Policy Group at ETH Zurich have previously shown that higher developer risk also means investors charge higher interest rates. This increases the wholesale cost of power, making it less competitive and attractive to investors.call_made

0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.

YouTuber, Tom Scott visited ETH Zurich's AMZ Racing World Record team to test drive Mythen. In less than a week, the video has 2.2 million views.

From waste to wonder: startup turns olive leftovers into valuable ingredients

external pageETH Zurich spin-off, Gaia Tech upscycles olive pomace into natural preservatives and cosmectic ingredients...The designed a procedure to extract polyphenols out of olive oil sidestream that is hard to manage for olive producers...earning a De Vigier Award, worth 100,000 Swiss francs, and received 480,000 more from several investors.call_made

Centralised private sector biodiversity fund could help hit global targets, says research organisation

external pageDigital platform Restor, an ETH Spinoff, could be used by project developers to submit project and financial information, so the costs of restoration could be accessed transparently.call_made

Another weapon to fight climate change? Put carbon back where we found it

external pageA small vial of fuel made from sunlight “…may be the most intriguing of all the forms of carbon capture…as it suggests that one day we may be able to harness carbon in a continuous virtuous cycle of zero-emission energy,” says Sam Howe Verhovek in his article for @NatGeocall_made  

Generating clean electricity with chicken feathers

external pageResearchers at ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have now found a way to put these feathers to good use. Using a simple and environmentally friendly process, they extract the protein keratin from the feathers and convert it into ultra-fine fibers known as amyloid fibrils. These keratin fibrils go on to be used in the membrane of a fuel cell. Their study has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.call_made

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Spinout term sheets: Explained

external pageFrom royalties to licensing terms, here's what first-time academic founders need to know..Christina Dittrich, who manages IP transfer and licences at Swiss university ETH Zurich, outlines the most common inclusions for its spinouts.call_made

There’s a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses

external page“We demonstrate a proof of concept RowPress program that can cause bitflips in a real system that already employs protections against RowHammer,” Onur Mutlu, a professor at ETH Zürich and a co-author of a recently published paper titled RowPress: Amplifying Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips, wrote in an email. “Note that this is not in itself an attack. It simply shows that bitflips are possible and plenty, which can easily form the basis of an attack. As many prior works in security have shown, once you can induce a bitflip, you can use that bitflip for various attacks.”call_made

Why The Ruki May Be The World’s Darkest River

external pageA tributary of the Congo is darker even than the Rio Negro, and it plays an oversized role in the planet’s carbon budget...(ETH Zurich post-doc, Travis) Drake and colleagues set out to fill the gap. They established a monitoring station to explore the river’s chemistry just above where it joins the Congo.call_made

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Compact Underwater Robot from Tethys Providing a Safer Alternative for Underwater Inspection

external pageDivers can face difficult and dangerous conditions when performing essential underwater inspection, search and maintenance. Now a new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from Switzerland’s Tethys Robotics - an ETH Zurich start-up - is providing a much safer alternative.call_made

As surging threats teeter electrical power grids, scientists offer insights to make them more resilient

external page"Imagine dominoes when they are spaced far apart. Triggering it will not cause a chain reaction because it can't reach the next tile. We want the power system to operate in this relaxed way," says senior author Giovanni Sansavini of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. "Triggering events like wind, storms, or hacking will always happen. But we can understand how our system operates and adjust the distance of the tiles to mitigate the risk of cascading events."call_made

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Fighting antimicrobial resistance with new drug combinations

external page“Previously, there have been studies on specific drug combinations, especially those commonly prescribed together in the clinic,” said Elisabetta Cacace, the first author of the study and former PhD student in the Typas group. “However, we lacked systematic knowledge of how combinations of different classes of antibiotics, or combinations of antibiotics and non-antibiotic drugs, influence bacterial physiology, especially when considered independently of the host.”...Cacace, who is trained as a medical doctor and is currently a postdoc at ETH Zürich...call_made

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Countdown to the World Solar Challenge: Innovative Solar Powered Car Safely Shipped to Australia by Gebrüder Weiss

external pageAt the end of October, students of ETH Zurich will take part in the World Solar Challenge with the car. In this unique race, 31 teams must cover the 3,000 km from Darwin down through the Australian outback to Adelaide, using only solar energy.call_made

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AI and Generating Alpha in Real Time with aisot

external pageFounded by a team of former ETH Zurich researchers, aisot (an ETH Spinoff) is one of the companies that is dedicated to helping asset and wealth managers make the most of the AI opportunity. The Swiss startup, launched in 2019 and headquartered in Zurich, leverages generative AI and access to market and alternative data sources, to deliver analytics, forecasts, and actionable insights to traders, business analysts, data scientists, and other financial services professionals.call_made  

‘Monster Quake’ Hints at Mysterious Source within Mars

external pageImages from each and every spacecraft now orbiting Mars have ruled out a meteorite strike as the cause of a 4.7-magnitude marsquake, the strongest temblor ever detected beyond Earth...“We just don’t know at the moment,” says Simon Stähler, a seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Other than its sheer magnitude, “this quake has no features that are remarkable in any way.”call_made

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AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type

external pageThe AI models behind chatbots like ChatGPT can accurately guess a user’s personal information from innocuous chats. Researchers say the troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads...“It's not even clear how you fix this problem,” says Martin Vechev, a computer science professor at ETH Zurich in Switzerland who led the research. “This is very, very problematic.”call_made

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DNA Encoded Library Market Set to Reach $840 Million in 2023, Driven by Transformative Impact on Drug Discovery

external pageThe global DNA encoded library market is poised for substantial growth, with an estimated worth of USD 840 million in 2023 and a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16% during the forecast period spanning 2023 to 2035. (ETH Zurich research and ETH spinoff, SpiroChem - identified as a leading company)call_made

Golf, walking and Nordic walking may enhance cognitive function in older adults

external pageAn international team of researchers from the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Edinburgh and ETH Zürich aimed to explore the immediate effects of three distinct cognitively demanding aerobic exercises on cognition and related biological responses in older, healthy adults.call_made  

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Innovative Approach to Treating Microtia: Combining Bioprinted Ear Cartilage and Bioengineered Ear Skin

external pageMicrotia, a congenital disorder affecting the external ear in children, can have devastating effects on their psychosocial well-being. Current treatment options for microtia reconstruction are limited and often not available until children reach the age of 10. However, a team of researchers from the University of Children’s Hospital Zurich, ETH Zurich, and the United States has developed a groundbreaking approach to address this issue.call_made

Can chemists turn wood into an electronic material?  

external pageSubstituting even a small amount of plastic and metal with wood would be a big environmental win, says Guido Panzarasa, a chemical scientist in the wood materials science laboratory at ETH Zurich. “Wood is a natural, renewable, widespread, and carbon-sequestering material. Until recently, it was used almost exclusively for structural and decorative purposes. We want to use wood to make electricity, to conduct electricity, and to use electricity.”call_made

Swiss Researchers Test New Method to Capture CO2 in Concrete

external page"Carbonation" is the name given to this process, in which limestone is formed from calcium hydroxide in concrete and CO2...For a long time, experts have been thinking about using it to improve the carbon footprint of concrete – and now, in the DemoUpCARMA project, Empa experts are working with partners under the leadership of ETH Zurich...to test whether and how the process can be used and, above all, accelerated in a real concrete plant.call_made

Next Generation of Engineers Embraces Vehicle Electrification

external pageUniversity students are pushing the EV envelope by setting records for acceleration and longest range. Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have built a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV) that has broken the Guinness World Record for acceleration for EVs.call_made  

UBS joins forces with CERN, Swiss government and GESDA to boost quantum computing in bid to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals

external pageUBS is partnering with the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation (GESDA), CERN, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and Swiss higher-education institutions ETH Zurich and EPFL to create the Open Quantum Institute (OQI), which is being launched today in Geneva...In its projects, the OQI endeavors to maximize the potential of quantum computing to accelerate progress towards achieving the SDGs and solving some of the world’s most pressing issues in fields such as health, energy, climate action, clean water and food security.call_made  

Researchers from Microsoft and ETH Zurich Introduce HoloAssist: A Multimodal Dataset for Next-Gen AI Copilots for the Physical World

external page...A team of researchers from Microsoft and ETH Zurich has introduced a groundbreaking dataset called “HoloAssist.” This dataset is built for egocentric, first-person, human interaction scenarios in the real world. It involves two participants collaborating on physical manipulation tasks: a task performer wearing a mixed-reality headset and a task instructor who observes and provides verbal instructions in real-time.call_made

Heavy Trucks Likely Not Zero-Emission in the Near Future

external pageWithout political measures for zero-​emission technologies, a significant proportion of heavy goods vehicles will still run on diesel in 2035. This result is shown in a new ETH Zurich study on the decarbonisation of truck traffic.call_made

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ETH Zurich and United Nations sign memorandum of understanding on technology-based social innovations

external pageOn Tuesday ETH President Joël Mesot and Guy Ryder, Under-​Secretary-General for Policy at the United Nations, signed a joint memorandum of understanding in New York committing the university and the UN to push ahead with the development of technology-​based social innovations to overcome global challenges.call_made

Simulations of 'backwards time travel' can improve scientific experiments

external pagePhysicists have shown that simulating models of hypothetical time travel can solve experimental problems that appear impossible to solve using standard physics...Co-author Aidan McConnell, who carried out this research during his master's degree at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and is now a Ph.D. student at ETH, Zürich. "Let's say sending gifts is inexpensive and we can send numerous parcels on day one. On day two we know which gift we should have sent. By the time the parcels arrive on day three, one out of every four gifts will be correct, and we select these by telling the recipient which deliveries to throw away."call_made

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Seeing red: does the colour of a room affect how you feel?

external pageUsing virtual reality, researchers at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich put 60 participants into red and blue rooms of varying lightness and saturation, and looked at their physiological responses...The authors say that the research is promising in demonstrating that wall colours have an impact on how we feel (at least in a virtual space)...call_made

How Marsican brown bears and humans can coexist

external pagePaula Mayer, a researcher at ETH Zurich, has mapped the coexistence of humans and bears in the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park region. ‘This project is an attempt to take a rational look at the landscape and figure out where and under what circumstances humans and large carnivores successfully coexist and where they don’t,’ she says.call_made  

What’s Next for NASA’s UFO Research Plan? Experts Weigh In

external pageThomas Zurbuchen, who left NASA at the end of 2022 and is now director of ETH Zurich Space in Switzerland, says his old employer could add unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, to a list of targeted research topics that’s due to be released in four months bear...“You basically say, ‘Here’s opportunities,’ and you squeeze them in,” Zurbuchen said Oct. 7 in Boulder at the ScienceWriters 2023 conference. “Generally speaking, I think it’s a lot easier to do that.”call_made  

Low-Bass Music Controls Insulin Release From Designer Cells

external pageScientists in Switzerland have figured out how to remotely control genes in a way that could one day enable diabetics to produce and administer insulin directly in their body rather than relying on injections, inhalers, and pumps. Low-bass heavy popular music and movie soundtracks are being used to trigger insulin release from designer cells in implantable capsules when intentionally directed at the implant site, according to Martin Fussenegger, professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at ETH Zurich in Basel, who is leading the research project.call_made  

Lasers and lithium team up for ammonia production at ambient conditions

external page'It’s a new method for the production of green ammonia,’ says Victor Mougel, an expert in the electrochemical transformation of small molecules based at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.call_made

Paulina Grnarova and Yannic Kilcher from DeepJudge.AI: Unlocking Institutional Knowledge: How AI is Transforming Legal Search

external page...Explore innovations in legal search with ⁠Paulina Grnarova⁠ and ⁠Yannic Kilcher⁠, co-founders of (ETH Spinoff) ⁠DeepJudge⁠. This semantic search engine for legal documents leverages proprietary AI developed by experts with backgrounds from Google and academic AI research.call_made

NASA InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

external pageA previous paper that offered a first glimpse of the planet’s core relied on seismic waves that reflected off its outer boundary, providing less precise data. Detecting seismic waves that actually traveled through the core allows scientists to refine their models of what the core looks like. Based on the findings documented in the new paper, about a fifth of the core is composed of elements such as sulfur, oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen...“Determining the amount of these elements in a planetary core is important for understanding the conditions in our solar system when planets were forming and how these conditions affected the planets that formed,” said one of the paper’s co-authors, Doyeon Kim of ETH Zurich.call_made

Heat Waves in the Ground Are Getting More Extreme—and Perilous

external page“Our climate models essentially predict that this contribution of low moisture of dry soils to heat extremes is only going to increase or strengthen in the future,” says ETH Zurich atmospheric scientist Dominik Schumacher, who studies the interaction between land and air but wasn’t involved in the new paper. “I think that the paper makes it a bit more clear that what happens in the ground— even though we don't see it—definitely does matter.”call_made  

Up in the air: Study finds microplastics in high-altitude cloud water

external pageDenise Mitrano, an environmental analytical chemist at ETH Zürich, who was not involved in this research, said the study presents a “unique data set” that fills in some knowledge gaps about the distribution of microplastics. However, she said the authors’ suggestion about microplastics forming clouds may not be entirely right. That’s because the presence of microplastics in a cloud could simply mean the particles are “being transported with the air mass and not necessarily influencing the cloud” formation process itself, Mitrano told Mongabay in an emailed statement.call_made

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The beautiful village that could be wiped out by mountain sliding towards it

external pageSpeaking about the worst-case scenario faced by the village (of Brienz), Simon Löw, a geology professor at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich, told Swiss public broadcaster SRF several rocks could tumble down from the mountain at a speed of up to 120 miles per hour.call_made

Singapore, the green city

external pageSome 47 percent of the "garden city" of Singapore is now covered in vegetation. The seven million trees that have been planted help cool the air by several degrees, and the government plans to plant a further million by 2030. The city-state champions natural ventilation, tree-lined streets and more energy-efficient buildings. This policy is supported at the highest levels of government, making Singapore the greenest metropolis in the world and a laboratory for the city of the future.call_made

'Pink noise’ in deep sleep may benefit heart

external pageTargeted stimulation with brief gentle sounds during deep sleep significantly enhances heart function, a new study shows. “We were expecting that stimulation with tones during deep sleep would impact the cardiovascular system. But the fact that this effect was so clearly measurable after just one night of stimulation surprised us,” says project leader and sleep expert Caroline Lustenberger, a fellow at the Neural Control of Movement Lab at ETH Zurich.call_made

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Uncertain contact

external pageJWST, NASA’s most powerful space telescope, observes in the infrared spectrum – good for seeing through interstellar dust, but not for detecting some of the most important potential biosignatures, like water. The planetary scientist Maggie Thompson, at ETH Zurich, studies the viability of methane as a biosignature. ‘Methane,’ she told me, ‘is one of the best biosignatures we could be able to detect with something like JWST,’ but it’s hardly a best-case scenario.call_made  

Machine learning predicts how drugs will affect cancer cells

external pageA new approach can predict how individual cells react to specific treatments, offering hope for more accurate diagnoses and therapeutics...“The diversity within a group of cells greatly influences their sensitivity or resistance to changes. Instead of basing our understanding on the average response of a cell group, our method can precisely describe—and even predict—how each cell reacts to disturbances like those from a drug,” says Gunnar Rätsch, professor of biomedical informatics at ETH Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich.call_made

Fotofestival Zürich: Open Your Eyes

external pageIn the heart of the city of Zurich, world-class photography meets world-class science for the first time to create an entirely new communication format. The focus is on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Open Your Eyes, ETH Zurich and The Photo Society (TPS), the association of more than 200 National Geographic photographers, are creating expansive open-air installations in the gardens, streets and squares of Zurich.call_made

Swissloop Traces Their Way to the Top at European Hyperloop Week

external pageThe hyperloop pod “Bertrand Piccard” (pictured above) won four out of six technical awards at this summer’s European Hyperloop Week in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the latest brainchild of the Swissloop team at ETH Zürich, which is known for designing and assembling their electronics in-house and to write the embedded software for power electronics, battery management, and vehicle control unit themselves.call_made

Bacteria genetically modify to escape effects of vaccination in pigs & poultry  

external pageResearchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Basel have developed a vaccine that protects animals from Salmonella. These bacteria often escape the effects of vaccination by genetically modifying their protective coat. The researchers have succeeded in manipulating this process to lure the bacteria into an evolutionary trap.call_made

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Predictions of the effect of drugs on individual cells are now possible

external pageAn interdisciplinary research team of biomedical and computer scientists from ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the University Hospital Zurich has now developed a machine learning approach that allows such cell changes and drug effects to be modeled and predicted with much greater accuracy and nuance than before.call_made  

To land a new job, try this confidence boost

external page“People who ascertain that they know who they are and what they stand for find it easier to market themselves convincingly to potential employers. This increases their chances of finding a job,” says Gudela Grote, professor of work and organizational psychology at ETH Zurich.call_made

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Drugs from the cheeks through octopus-inspired mini patches

external pageResearchers at ETH Zurich have developed a needle-free drug delivery method that resembles a tiny suction cup. Once filled with medications, it sticks to the inside of the cheek like a patch, allowing the medications to enter the bloodstream.call_made

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Probing liquid electron dynamics in liquids with laser

external pageAn international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has now demonstrated that it is possible to probe electron dynamics in liquids using intense laser fields and to retrieve the electron mean free path...call_made

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Tree-planting schemes threaten tropical biodiversity, ecologists say

external pageThomas Crowther, a professor of ecology at ETH Zurich, who co-authored a paper that found there are 900m hectares (2.2bn acres) of land outside urban and agricultural areas suitable for forests, said placing the carbon value of an ecosystem above everything else was wrong...“Whenever we value one part of nature more than everything else, we incentivise the propagation of that part at the expense of everything else,” he said. “Historically, we have valued the parts that we use for food, timber, medicines etc, but now we are doing the same thing with carbon.”call_made

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This Year's Physics Nobel Awards Scientists for Slicing Reality into Attoseconds

external page“When you look at the impact of ultrafast processes, they are inherent to many important mechanisms in life,” says Ursula Keller, a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.call_made  

2023 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Scientists Behind 'Attosecond' Laser Pulses; How Important Is Their Work?

external pageResearcher Hans Jakob Woerner from the Swiss University ETH Zurich explains that attoseconds are the shortest scales of time that humanity can directly measure...It is crucial for the laser pulses to work at this incredible speed because this is how fast electrons move. In fact, it takes 150 attoseconds for electrons to rotate a hydrogen atom's nucleus...Because of this, attosecond study has enabled scientists to look into fundamental processes that remained out of reach. Every piece of electronics is mediated by electron motion, but the speed limit at present lies at nanoseconds. Woerner explains that if this time frame in microprocessors were altered to attoseconds, it could make information processing incredibly faster.call_made

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Semiramis, an installation designed with AI by Gramazio Kohler Research

external pageSemiramis is an artificial intelligence-designed architectural installation constructed in 2022 at the entrance to Zug, Switzerland’s new Tech Cluster...Ultimately, the cross-laminated timber plates are robotically assembled utilizing a novel assembly technique developed by Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, in collaboration with TS3 and the Chair for Timber Structures at ETH Zurich. This process enables the butt joint bonding of wood, thereby producing large areas of intricately folded wood structures.call_made  

Swiss startup opens plant that permanently stores CO2 in waste concrete

external pageNeustark, a spin-off from Switzerland’s ETH Zurich university, has inaugurated its first commercial-scale carbon capture plant in the EU, located at a construction waste recycling facility on the outskirts of Berlin. The plant, built in partnership with building and recycling company Heim, has the capacity to permanently store over 1,000 tons of CO₂ per year by injecting the gas into granules of demolition concrete.call_made

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A hygiene program for chromosomes

external pageResearchers at ETH Zurich recently identified a previously unknown compartment in mammalian cells. They have named it the exclusome. It is made up of DNA rings known as plasmids. The researchers now published details of their discovery in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell.call_made

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Solar car racers ready for October Bridgestone World Solar Challenge

external pageA Swiss solar car racing team is among 42 entries from 22 countries in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC) over 3000km from Darwin to Adelaide on October 22-29...The αCentauri Solar Racing team from university ETH Zurich has called its entry the Aletsch after the largest glacier in Switzerland which is losing ice at a rapid rate due to climate change.call_made 

Researchers find microplastics in clouds

external pageETH Zurich professor, Denise Metrano comments on the study saying, “it’s a unique dataset which fills in some knowledge gaps regarding microplastics environmental distributions,”...(Mitrano) wasn’t involved in the study.call_made

Climate Change Brings Rapid Ice Loss to Antarctica, Arctic, Swiss Glaciers

external pageMeteorologist Jonathan Wille, an ETH Zurich researcher who was not a part of the study, “said unusual tropical downpours in the weeks beforehand created an atmospheric circulation pattern that was never observed before—leading to the extreme heat,” the news story states...“It’s possible that climate change influenced the atmospheric dynamics like the tropical convection anomalies that led to the heatwave, but this is very difficult to quantify these things,” he told The Post in an email.call_made