November 2018

ETH researchers had excellent results in the issuing of ERC grants: they were able to win 10 Consolidator Grants in the amount of 24 million Swiss francs for their research.

In the latest Times Higher Education subject ranking list "Computer Sciences", the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich ranks second.

At its annual event this week, the Hochschulmedizin Zürich initiative presented its new flagship project Surgent. Newly developed technology will enable operations to be planned and carried out with the utmost precision, in part thanks to holographic navigation.

Fixposition is an ETH spin-off specialising in real-time navigation systems for use in self-driving vehicles, robots or industrial drones. Using a combination of satellite-based positioning systems such as GPS with computer vision technologies, the young entrepreneurs have managed to achieve an unparalleled degree of precision.

Whether dormant bacteria begin to reproduce is no accident. Rather, they are simply waiting for a clear signal from a single protein in the cell interior. ETH researchers have now deciphered the molecular mechanisms behind this.

The video on Master’s study that ETH Zurich launched on Monday was viewed 60,000 times on YouTube in the first 24 hours alone. And it stirred emotions – positive and, above all, negative.

Scientists involved in NASA’s InSight Mars mission can breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate: yesterday evening at 20:53 Swiss time, the InSight lander touched down on Mars. The first signals and images from the lander have been received and the scientists will be testing the instruments intensively over the next few weeks.

What happens when a hip-hopper roams ETH and meets the students? Of course, they rap together. And while they’re about it, you get to learn a lot about the Master's programmes.

Flying is too cheap, reckons Renate Schubert. If fuel tax, CO₂ tax and VAT were charged, air tickets would be more expensive and there would be fewer false incentives.

With the help of machine learning, ETH researchers have been able to thoroughly describe the repertoire proteins on the cell surface for the first time. The latest findings are opening up new approaches in pharmaceutical research.