In the Media - July 2024

Taylor Swift: What science has discovered about the US singer...

external page When the pop artist (Taylor Swift) performed at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich on July 9, the Swiss Seismological Service at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich not only measured whether she caused the earth to quake, the scientists at ETH also assigned the readings of their seismographs to the songs that were played. The most intense tremors were during the song “Shake it off”.

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AI model identifies certain breast tumour stages likely to progress to invasive cancer

external page Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a type of preinvasive tumour that sometimes progresses to a highly deadly form of breast cancer...It accounts for about 25 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses...Because it is difficult for clinicians to determine the type and stage of DCIS, patients with DCIS are often over treated...To address this, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from MIT and ETH Zurich developed an AI model that can identify the different stages of DCIS from a cheap and easy-to-obtain breast tissue image.

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A Swiss startup devises an intelligent photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun

external page A Swiss startup Zurich Soft Robotics (an ETH Spinoff), has devised a photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun. (The systemcan reduce building energy consumption by up to 80% while producing up to 40% more electricity than comparable façade systems.) The company calls Solskin the first commercially available intelligent climate-adaptive building envelope.  

Why Asia's future hinges on a collective approach to sustainable finance

external page ...Key impact investing tool for the region (Asia) was spotlighted in a new GAEA (World Economic Forum's Giving to Amplify Earth Action) white paper, Labelled Bonds for the Net Zero Transition in Southeast Asia: The Way Forward, launched in partnership with ETH Zurich and The Rockefeller Foundation. It outlines the potential of labelled bonds such as green, social, sustainable and transition bonds to create transformational change in the region.  

Preventing cancer cells from colonizing the liver

external page A team of researchers led by Andreas Moor in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel have now published results in the journal, Nature, showing how colorectal cancer cells colonise the liver. Their findings will help to develop treatments with which it may be possible to hinder the metastatic process.

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MDR Class IIa for NUSHU Smart Shoes for Neurological Disorders

external page ETH Spinoff, Magnes has received the European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) certification as a Class IIa medical device for its NUSHU smart shoes which allows clinical-grade gait analysis of patients. NUSHU performs gait analysis in real-time and gives biofeedback to patients to assist them while walking...The Swiss company and its solution focuses on neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and other movement disorders. Magnes listed NUSHU with the FDA last year and is also active in the US market.  

Scientists Say Runners Can Now Outrun the Wind—Here’s What Makes It Possible

external page ...(The) Airshield—which is pretty much what it sounds like—a drag-reduction device that allows athletes to run without air resistance...The Airshield is being developed by Melanie Zeilinger, Dr. Andrea Carron, and Christina Spengler at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich...for use in an existing technique called “overspeed training.”

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Climate crisis is making days longer...

external page By 2100, the climate crisis could lengthen our days by 2.62 milliseconds, according to a study...This is being caused by the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which means that water is being redistributed from high latitudes into our oceans. Ultimately, more water is ending up in the seas nearer the equator...This slows the rotation of the planet and lengthens our days, albeit on the scale of milliseconds.“We can see our impact as humans on the whole Earth system, not just locally, like the rise in temperature, but really fundamentally, altering how it moves in space and rotates,” said Prof Benedikt Soja of ETH Zurich, as reported by The Guardian.  

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Eddy's Good News: Siamese crocodile eggs and cutting the cost of recycling gold

external page Gold is used in minute quantities in circuit boards for this reason but they’re really difficult and expensive to recycle. But some very clever scientists in Zurich have revolutionised the process. They make sponges from whey protein, dissolve the boards in acid, the gold and other precious metals dissolve into the liquid. Then they introduce the special sponges which absorb the metals and make it easy to retrieve them.  

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

external page In 2018, researchers from ETH 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 coffee pulp was spread three-feet thick over the entire area...Another plot of land near the coffee pulp dump was left alone to act as a control for the experiment...In just two years, the area treated with coffee pulp had an 80% canopy cover, compared to just 20% of the control area. So, the coffee-pulp-treated area grew four times more rapidly. Like a jolt of caffeine, it reinvigorated biological activity in the area.

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Swiss startup NetFabric snaps $2.2M to mitigate downtime risks

external page NetFabric, an ETH Zurich spin-off pioneering advancements in network observability, has snapped $2.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Founderful (which invested in Axmed and mimic) and Playfair Capital (which invested in Nory and Qureight)...The investment will drive the development of NetFabric’s network observability platform, accelerating development to meet the evolving needs of a $197 billion industry increasingly dependent on robust network performance.

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Uncovering the link between meltwater and groundwater in mountain regions

external page An international group (including ETH Zurich) of experts in mountain hydrology argue that the traditional understanding of the mountain water cycle has largely ignored the role that cryosphere-groundwater interactions play. This oversight could lead to incomplete or inaccurate predictions of water availability in mountain regions, especially in the context of climate change, suggest the authors in a Perspective Paper appearing in Nature Water.

The problematic chemicals fueling America’s EV revolution

external page Ramped-up production of toxins used in the batteries has communities worried...That means more treatment and better monitoring — and more openness from industry and scrutiny by everyone else, said Martin Scheringer, an environmental science professor and renowned PFAS expert at ETH Zurich, a public university...This industry “has a very bad track record,” Scheringer said. Its plans “need to be followed very closely by watchdogs of all kinds.” 

Lunar Infrastructure Could Be Protected By Autonomously Building A Rock Wall

external page ...A new paper from researchers in Switzerland suggests a much simpler idea – why not just build a blast wall by stacking a bunch of rocks together?...Some of the same co-authors described an autonomous boulder-stacking robot for use in construction projects on Earth. In it, they showed a control algorithm that could successfully stack a rock wall together using medium-sized boulders entirely autonomously. Applying it to lunar construction seemed like the next obvious step.  

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IPCC scientist Sonia Seneviratne: 'We need to let go of the climate of the past'

external page In an interview, the Swiss climatologist notes that extreme weather events are becoming commonplace. She fears that tipping points with unpredictable consequences may soon be reached...Sonia Seneviratne, a Swiss climatologist and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and vice chair of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), looks back at the many extreme weather events currently affecting the planet.

Method recovers rare earth metal from old lightbulbs

external page “Rare earth metals are hardly ever recycled in Europe,” says Victor Mougel, professor at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich. A team of researchers led by Mougel wants to change this...“There is an urgent need for sustainable and uncomplicated methods for separating and recovering these strategic raw materials from various sources,” says the chemist...In their new study, the team presents a surprisingly simple method for efficiently separating and recovering the rare earth metal europium from complex mixtures including other rare earth metals.

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Hydrogel implant for fallopian tubes provides dual solution for contraception and endometriosis

external page A hydrogel is a gel made of a type of plastic that can bind water. Researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have now developed the first hydrogel implant designed for use in fallopian tubes. This innovation performs two functions: one is to act as a contraceptive, the other is to prevent the recipient from developing endometriosis in the first place or to halt the spread if they do.

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Positrigo obtains FDA clearance for NeuroLF brain PET system

external page ETH Spinoff, Positrigo's brain PET scanner is designed to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's disease, brain tumours, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease among others has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its NeuroLF brain positron emission tomography (PET) system.

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Scientists bridge the 'valley of death' in carbon capture technologies

external page An international team of researchers including ETH Zurich and EPFL, led by Heriot-Watt University uses advanced simulations and machine learning to find the most cost-effective and sustainable material-capture process combinations prior to implementation.

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How climate crisis is making days longer

external page Water from melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica is flowing into oceans and shifting the planet’s mass to the extent it is affecting how it spins, according to researchers from ETH Zürich...As ice melts and the water flows into oceans at lower latitudes, the Earth’s rotation decelerates, adding milliseconds to each day.  

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Air-deflecting shield allows athletes to run like the unimpeded wind

If you want to run faster, it definitely helps if you know what it feels like to run faster. The Airshield was designed with that fact in mind, as it external page allows runners to train without experiencing any air resistance...Currently in prototype form, the Airshield is being developed by Prof. Melanie Zeilinger, Dr. Andrea Carron, Prof. Christina Spengler and colleagues at ETH Zurich university in Switzerland. It was created for use in an existing technique known as "overspeed training."

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Microplastic Pollution Increases Sea Foam Height and Stability

external page ...Researchers from ETH Zürich and The Ocean Cleanup, based in New Zealand, examined the specific impacts of microplastics on the geophysics of sea foam formation in the critical zone where water meets air in the top layer of the ocean...“The surface microlayer is the first area of contact between the atmosphere and a water body, lake, or ocean,” author Peter Fischer said. “All exchanges of materials, whether gases, water, or particles, pass through the surface microlayer before they are distributed deeper into the water column or upper layers of the atmosphere through evaporation and cloud formation.”

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The current international poverty line is a 'misleading shortcut method,' say experts

external page Billions of dollars in foreign aid could be spent more effectively if international poverty statistics were more accurate, according to new research led by King's College London...Dr. Moatsos and his co-author, Dr. Achillefs Lazopoulos from ETH Zurich, demonstrate that the difference is as much as 190 million individuals.

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UK-Switzerland collaborations announced for emerging technology projects

external page Twenty six innovative projects to enhance UK and Swiss collaborations and capabilities in the emerging fields of technology have been announced...With £7.8 million funding from Innovate UK and CHF 9.1 million from Innosuisse, the Swiss innovation agency, the collaborative projects span various sectors showcasing a diverse range of innovative solutions.

Unveiling a new class of synthetic fuels

external page Researchers from RWTH, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, and ETH Zurich have made considerable advancements in synthetic fuels. Their study, which has the potential to revolutionize clean transportation, has been published in Nature Energy, titled "Towards Carbon-Neutral and Clean Propulsion in Heavy-Duty Transportation with Hydroformylated Fischer-Tropsch Fuels."

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Climate change is messing with time more than previously thought, scientists find  

external page In the past, the impact of climate change on time “has not been so dramatic,” said Benedikt Soja, a study author and assistant professor of space geodesy at the Swiss university ETH Zurich...But that could be changing. If the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, “climate change could become the new dominant factor,” outpacing the moon’s role, he told CNN.  

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Study identifies epigenetic 'switches' that regulate the developmental trajectories of single cells

external page Researchers at ETH Zurich and Roche Institute of Human Biology recently carried out a study aimed at exploring the epigenetic processes influencing the developmental trajectories of individual cells, using human brain and retina organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells.

BTRY secures €153K for one-minute charging battery

external page Swiss Batterytech startup BTRY has received €153,000 investment from Venture Kick to advance its one-minute charging solid-state battery...CEO Dr Moritz Futscher and CTO Dr Abdessalem Aribia founded the company together with Dr Yaroslav Romanyuk as a scientific advisor in 2023 as a spin-off of Empa and ETH Zurich.

Is DNA the future of digital data storage?

external page Storing information in DNA offers many advantages over current methods, with longevity being the most important...today’s storage mediums are not designed to last...‘Museums and big data storage companies are aware that there is this problem that we don’t really know how to store the data for a long time,’ says Robert Grass, a professor of functional materials at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Microbeads made from brewery waste can contribute to a plastic-free future

external page Research shows that a treasure trove of possibilities is hidden within biowaste. Once such gem is brewer’s spent grain (BSG), the leftovers from brewing beer...Research (from ETH Zurich and Université du Québec à Rimouski) has found that BSG is well-suited for use in personal hygiene products in the form of sustainable exfoliating microbeads.

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Eco Tech

external page Technology show, BBC Click aired 4 stories on ETH Zurich research including: Radar remote sensing from the High Altitude Research Centre, Jungfraujoch, AI satellite detecticon of snow data from space, BiodivX team participating in X-PRIZE Rainforest sequencing biodiversity DNA andcommunicating DNA via music, and a feature on ETH Spinoff, Climeworks' Mammoth project in Iceland. The episode aired multiple times over the weekend on the BBC World News network all around the world. (Available for replay in Switzerland on UPC Sunrise / Swisscom cable or anytime via the BBC iPlayer in the UK)

NATO Summit in Washington supports Ukraine

external page Dr Gorana Grgic, ETH Zurich Centre for Security Studies speakes with Australian Broadcast Network about NATO / US Relations. (Listen to the interview)

Securely propagating entanglement at the push of a button

external page Entanglement, Einstein's "spooky action at a distance," today is THE tool of quantum information science. It is the essential resource for quantum computers and used to transmit quantum information in a future quantum network. But it is highly sensitive. It is therefore an enormous challenge to entangle resting quantum bits (qubits) with flying qubits in the form of photons "at the push of a button."..."Mastering this challenge was the cornerstone for the success of the experiment," summarizes Stephan Welte, who helped develop the technology as part of the team and is now a researcher at ETH Zurich.

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2 Top Swiss Universities Agree to Triple Foreign Student Fees

external page Tuition fees for foreign Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students who move to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich or EPFL will now face a threefold increase...students who are already enrolled will be able to complete their Bachelor’s or Master’s degree without an increase in fees.

German architects whose designs shape our everyday lives

external page Karola Bloch was a German-Polish Jewish architect who began her career in Vienna...Fleeing to Switzerland in the early 1930s, Bloch finished her architectural studies at ETH Zurich...Bloch left her post and looked towards feminism in architecture and design, helping to found the International Union of Women Architects...

‘Mind control’ races could revolutionise treatments

external page Owen Collumb, 53, from Dublin, was left paralysed from the chest down after a motorcycle accident in 1993...He is now training alongside scientists at the University of Bath to compete in Cybathlon 2024 in Zurich this October. The races range from wheelchair, bike and track events...He is entering the brain computer interface race, hoping to complete four challenges in the fastest time, with the support of his engineer..."The Cybathlon is more than just a computer game. "It's about empowering disabled people to take control of their lives, normalising disability and helping people become a valuable part of their communities," said Mr Collumb.

Destroying Russian Tanks Is Just The Start For U.S. AI  

external page Auterion has a long pedigree in the drone world, having led an open-source movement for more than a decade. In 2008 Meier, then at ETH Zurich, set out to build an autonomous drone. The result was Pixhawk 4, universally known as just PX4, an open-source flight controller giving drone developers a flexible set of tools. There are now 10,000 PX4 developers worldwide, including some who use it for robots and other machines.

QS Ranks Top European Universities, ETH Zurich Leads...

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Developing an Eco-Friendly Method to Extract Europium from Waste

external page ETH Zurich doctoral student Marie Perrin presents the new recycling approach. In her left hand, she holds the raw material, a fluorescent lamp, and in her right, the yellow reagent that can separate rare earth metals.

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Perceived warmth, competence predict callback decisions in meta-analysis of hiring experiments

external page Perceived warmth and competence predict the influence of race, gender and age on callback decisions, suggesting social perceptions might underlie such hiring bias. The meta-analysis of North American correspondence studies is published July 10, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carina Hausladen from the California Institute of Technology and ETH Zürich, Marcos Gallo from the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues.

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Scrona Rolls out GEN3 Printhead for High-Precision Manufacturing, Raises $4 Million

external page ETH Zurich spin-off Scrona has raised $4 million through Convertible Loan Agreement (CLA) financing, bringing its total funding to $15.2 million. Known for its advanced technology that can create tiny, high-precision features at high speeds, Scrona is making headway in microfabrication for semiconductor packaging and display manufacturing. 

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Rapyuta Robotics Launches Its ASRS Solution in the U.S. Market

external page ETH Zurich Spinoff, Rapyuta Robotics Inc., a leading provider of logistics solutions, is launching its latest product, 'Rapyuta ASRS (Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems),' in the U.S. market.

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New Design for High-Energy, Low-Fluorine Lithium-Metal Batteries

external page Scientists at ETH Zurich have drastically lowered the quantity of fluorine—which is bad for the environment—needed to stabilize batteries. By developing a new electrolyte design for lithium metal batteries, the range of electric vehicles could be greatly increased. The study has been published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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A new approach to realize quantum mechanical squeezing

external page A research team at ETH Zurich led by Dr. Matteo Fadel recently introduced a new approach to realize quantum squeezing in a nonlinear mechanical oscillator. This approach, outlined in a paper published in Nature Physics, could have interesting implications for the development of quantum metrology and sensing technologies.

Positive tipping points: A credible way to meet climate and nature goals

external page ETH Zurich professors sign letter about how climate action is moving too slowly and too incrementally to hit the Paris Climate Agreement target. To protect lives and livelihoods globally, action must now focus on meeting positive tipping points that cascade benefits once hit. The biggest positive tipping point would be to adopt a better measure of progress than growth of GDP.

The great silence: Just 4 in 10,000 galaxies may host intelligent aliens

external page Plate tectonics are absolutely essential if complex life is to evolve, argue Robert Stern of the University of Texas at Dallas and Taras Gerya of ETH Zurich in Switzerland..."We believe that the onset of modern-day-style plate tectonics greatly accelerated the evolution of complex life and was one of the major causes of the Cambrian explosion," Gerya told Space.com.

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Digital twins have “enormous potential” for safety training

external page Researchers at ETH Zurich have collaborated with Lufthansa Aviation Training to develop a groundbreaking digital twin of an Airbus aircraft for safety and emergency training purposes...The project, led by Professor Martin Raubal and Peter Kiefer from the ETH Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, is aimed at creating a virtual replica of an Airbus A320 Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer

New electrolyte design boosts lithium metal battery range while minimizing fluorine content

external page A new electrolyte design for lithium metal batteries could significantly boost the range of electric vehicles. Researchers at ETH Zurich have radically reduced the amount of environmentally harmful fluorine required to stabilize these batteries.

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Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification

external page The world’s oceans are facing a “triple threat” of extreme heating, a loss of oxygen and acidification, with extreme conditions becoming far more intense in recent decades and placing enormous stress upon the planet’s panoply of marine life...The study’s lead author warned that the world’s oceans were already being pushed into an extreme new state because of the climate crisis. “The impacts of this have already been seen and felt,” said Joel Wong, a researcher at ETH Zurich, who cited the well-known example of the heat “blob” that has caused the die-off of marine life in the Pacific Ocean. “Intense extreme events like these are likely to happen again in the future and will disrupt marine ecosystems and fisheries around the world,” he added.

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Extreme blasts from Sun once in thousand years can be catastrophic to life on Earth

external page About every thousand years an extreme blast from the Sun’s surface “like a searchlight into space” can severely disrupt the Earth’s ozone layer and impact all life on Earth, a new study warns...This extreme “solar particle event” can expose people to high levels of harmful UV radiation, causing high cancer rates, and even lead to changes in global climate, researchers, including those from ETH, Zürich say.

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New Theory On Why We Are Alone In The Cosmos—Tectonic Plates

external page Are we alone, and if so, why? So far, the search for extraterrestrial life has turned up nothing but silence—and a team of geoscientists now think they know why...Geology. The presence of oceans, continents and plate tectonics on Earth is most likely the reason there is no evidence for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, according to new research by the University of Texas at Dallas and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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Computer viruses can spread by using ChatGPT to write sneaky emails

external page Researchers have shown that a computer virus can use ChatGPT to rewrite its code to avoid detection, then write tailored emails that look like genuine replies, spreading itself in an email attachment...As well as producing human-like text, large language models (LLMs) – the artificial intelligences behind powerful chatbots like ChatGPT – can also write computer code. David Zollikofer at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Benjamin Zimmerman at Ohio State University are concerned that this facility could be exploited by viruses that rewrite their own code, known as metamorphic malware.

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Drug discovery hotspots: What is the secret to Switzerland’s success?

external page Gisbert Schneider, Professor at ETH Zurich’s Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, says: “Our work has made the world of proteins accessible for generative AI in drug research. The new algorithm has enormous potential.”

Busting five myths about eco-friendly eating

external page Bianca Wassmann, Singapore-ETH Centre and ETH Zurich in Singapore writes about..."while people are increasingly willing to spend more on these labels, there is often not enough consideration of how much these features actually contribute to a food’s environmental sustainability."

If alien terraforming emits greenhouse gases, our telescopes could detect it

external page "The long lifetime makes these gases excellent technosignatures to systematically search for in comparison to shorter-lived signals," study co-author Daniel Angerhausen of ETH Zürich said in another statement. "These signatures might even outlive their civilization if their geoengineering experiments were to fail."

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Meteorites the size of basketballs hit Mars almost every day

external page “This rate was about five times higher than the number estimated from orbital imagery alone,” says Géraldine Zenhäusern of ETH Zurich, who co-led the study. “Aligned with orbital imagery, our findings demonstrate that seismology is an excellent tool for measuring impact rates.”

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An alternative way to manipulate quantum states

external page Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators at ETH Zurich now show that such spin-polarized currents can also be used to control the quantum states of single electron spins. Their results, which have just been published in the scientific journal Science, could be used in different technologies in the future, for instance in the control of quantum states of quantum bits (qubits).

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'Nearly sustainable' hydrogen could cut ammonia production emissions by 95%

external page The study's lead author is Stefano Mingolla, a doctoral student at HKUST. He worked for six months in the group led by Giovanni Sansavini, Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich. "If you use almost green hydrogen to produce ammonia, you can achieve a lot very quickly—it's low-hanging fruit," Sansavini says.

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Researchers Develop Lightning-Fast Algorithms for Dynamic Networks

external page Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed lightning-fast algorithms for solving complex network flow problems, which can be used to tackle dynamic networks that change quickly, such as molecules or the brain in biology, or human friendships...The team, led by Rasmus Kyng and including Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, has created an almost-linear-time algorithm that solves the minimum-cost maximum-flow problem for networks that incrementally change as new connections are added. This breakthrough can be used to speed up computations in a wide range of applications, from traffic flow to electrical grids.

Changing The Gatekeepers in Switzerland: Democratizing Access to Silicon Valley and Giving New Meaning to Impact Investing

Walter Knabenhans is best known for his role as the former Chairman and CEO of Julius Baer Group where he was renowned for his astute leadership and strategic acumen...While his career was deeply rooted in finance, Walter's interest in Silicon Valley stemmed from a love of engineering and technology that he didn't have the opportunity to fully explore in his first act...Walter completed his academic education at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, earning a Master's degree in Engineering and Business Administration summa cum laude. Walter's first love was always engineering and technology. "I have always approached problems as an engineer first and a business person second," he explained.

From Fungi to Foundations: Mycelium in construction

external page MycoTree, completed in 2017, is a pioneering mycelium structure located in Seoul, South Korea. Designed by the Block Research Group and the Chair of Sustainable Construction at ETH Zurich, this installation demonstrates the structural capabilities of mycelium in construction.