AI is transforming the way we monitor and manage biodiversity. While these tools hold promise to level the playing field, they could also entrench existing inequities, says Melissa Chapman. At the UN biodiversity conference in Armenia, she aims to understand how the use of AI is shaping the negotiations.
Did the Addams Family stop by ETH Zurich? A severed hand crawls over a piano, scurries along the corridors and gets up to mischief in a cupboard. But there’s nothing supernatural about it – it’s all robotics. The video shows what this unusual robotic hand can do, why researchers find it fascinating and what it’s doing at Halloween.
With nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, materials can be analysed to an atomic degree of precision. ETH Zurich is home to one of the most powerful NMR spectrometers in the world – and many of its research groups have now embraced this technology.