In the Media 2021

The best of ETH Zurich news from journalists around the globe.

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The following international news content features in digital, English-language platforms. ETH Zurich and its members also appear in numerous broadcast television shows, films, and print publications. Some publications listed may require a subscription to view content, while others allow free access to a limited number of articles.


WIRED

28 December 2021

The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change

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THE ROBOT REPORT

22 December 2021

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The CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition is history. 51 teams from 20 countries competed against each other, completing everyday tasks with the help of state-?of-the-art assistance systems.

Brain-computer interface startups augmenting human body

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The Science Times

16 December 2021

Autonomous Two-Wheeled Ascento Pro Robot May Soon Be Used for Inspection, Surveillance, and Delivery

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Harvard Business Review

15 December 2021

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Quantum Computing for Business Leaders

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IFL Science

15 December 2021

Sample Mount
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Quantum Computer Can Now Automatically Correct Errors In Major Breakthrough

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World Economic Forum

15 December 2021

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What's the real toll of plastics on the environment?

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PHYS.org

15 December 2021

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Climate change is intensifying extremes, even in the oceans

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DesignBoom

14 December 2021

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The printable mineral foams based on recycled waste are developed at ETH Zurich in collaboration with ETH Spinoff, FenX AG.

ETH zurich uses foam 3D printing to produce intricate recyclable formwork in concrete casting

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New Atlas

13 December 2021

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Bigger, faster, stronger: This is Ascento Pro!

Hopping, rolling, balancing Ascento robot now available in Pro form

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Medical Xpress

13 December 2021

Rapid PCR tests at the touch of a button

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SciTechDaily

13 December 2021

Gerya T, et al. Nature 2021
Illustration: Gerya T, et al. Nature 2021

Fate of Sinking Tectonic Plates Has Long Puzzled Scientists – Now They’ve Found an Answer

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BBC New / BBC Click

11 December 2021

4-wheeled robot ANYmal
Image: Swiss_Mile / ETH Zurich Robotics Systems Lab

Four-wheeled robot walks upright and other tech news

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World Economic Forum

11 December 2021

Quantum lab
Image: ETH Zurich / Daniel Winkler

Researchers have overcome a significant hurdle in quantum computing

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Fierce Electronics

11 December 2021

Quantum Physics Lab
Image: ETH Zurich / Daniel Winkler

Quantum Update: AWS, Azure, error correction, more

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Yahoo! Life

10 December 2021

4-wheeled ANYmal robot
Image: Swiss_Mile / ETH Zurich Robotics Systems Lab

'Transformer' Robot Can Wheely Get Anywhere

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Science

9 December 2021

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Grímsv?tn - DAS Experiment / Seismology and Wave Physics - ETH Zurich

Cheap and rugged optical fibers are revealing earth's hidden motions

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AZO Robotics

9 December 2021

CARL-bot at Caltech
Image: Courtesy of Caltech

Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Navigate Oceans Via Ocean Currents

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SciTech Daily

8 December 2021

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Surprise Planet Found Around Extreme Star Pair. Video credit: ESO

Surprise Planet Discovered Around Extreme Star Pair

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Tech Xplore

8 December 2021

A wheeled car, quadruped and humanoid robot: Swiss-Mile Robot from ETH Zurich

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Chemistry World

8 December 2021

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Majority of top chemicals on market deemed environmentally unsustainable by new metric


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The Washington Post

7 December 2021

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African and Western diplomats want the fighting to stop in Ethiopia. Less pressure might help

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Interesting Engineering

6 December 2021

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Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich: wheeled-legged robot performs exceptional locomotion skills with reinforcement learning driving at speeds of up to 6.2 m/s (22.32 km/h or 13.87 miles/h), overcoming obstacles, and standing up on two legs!

A New 3-in-1 Robot Has Wheels for Feet and Runs for 90 Minutes

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Yahoo! News

6 December 2021

Plastic bag in the ocean
Image: ETH Zurich

Plastic has a far bigger carbon footprint than previously believed

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The Weather Channel

5 December 2021

Tree
Image: iStock / Sturti

Tree-Rich Areas Can Reduce Land Surface Area Temperatures by 12° in Cities: Study

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News Medical

3 December 2021

Green tea
Image: KMNPhoto / Adobe Stock

Green tea shown to increase the defensive capabilities of cells

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GIZMODO

2 December 2021

DNA Storage
Image: Heinz Troll

Microsoft Makes Breakthrough in the Quest to Use DNA as Data Storage

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Dezeen

30 November 2021

Semiramis rendering
The model of the finished, 22.5 meter high sculpture. Image Pascal Bach / Gramazio Kohler, ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich working with robots to evoke Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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The Star (Singapore)

30 November 2021

Mushrooms
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Turning fungi into ‘bricks’ for buildings

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Interesting Engineering

29 November 2021

Aerogel
Image: Markus Niederberger / ETH Zurich

A New Aerogel Could Produce 70 Times More Hydrogen Than Rival Methods

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Engadget

27 November 2021

Mars InSight
Image: NASA Mars InSight

Scientists used Mars' ambient noise to map the planet's subsurface layers

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SPACE.com

23 November 2021

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Video: NASA Jet Propultion Lab. NASA's InSight lander placed a seismometer on the Martian surface to study marsquakes. While it's found many, it has also detected other kinds of seismic signals...

NASA Mars lander makes 1st ever map of Red Planet underground by listening to winds

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DesignBoom

24 November 2021

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With the help of artificial intelligence and four collaborative robots, researchers at ETH Zurich are designing and fabricating a 22.5-metre-tall green architectural sculpture.

With the help of artificial intelligence and four collaborative robots, researchers at ETH Zurich are designing and fabricating a 22.5-metre-tall green architectural sculpture.

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ABC News (USA)

23 November 2021

Albert Einstein at ETH Zurich
ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, Bildarchiv / Image: Langhans, Jan F. / Portr_05936 / Public Domain

Rare Einstein manuscript on theory of relativity auctioned for over $15M in Paris

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The Guardian

22 November 2021

Chemicals
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How the chemicals industry's pollution slipped under the radar

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Medical News Today

21 November 2021

Brain
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Why are human neurons different from those of other mammals?

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The New York Times

19 November 2021

Menon
Image: zapp2photo / Adobe stock

Can a Machine Learn Morality?

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Science

16 November 2021

<i>Prof. Sonia Seneviratne, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science. Image: ETH Zurich </i>
Prof. Sonia Seneviratne, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science. Image: ETH Zurich

The new climate pact is more ambitous. But hopes dim for limiting warming to 1.5°C

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Daily Mail

15 November 2021

Tectonic plate illustration
Image: ETH Zurich

Fate of sinking tectonic plates is revealed: Pieces of Earth’s crust bend as they enter the mantle, becoming segmented ‘like a slinky snake’, study finds

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Ars Technica

15 November 2021

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Blacksmith - DDR4 memory protections are broken wide open by new Rowhammer technique

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Yahoo! Finance

12 November 2021

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2000-Watt Smart Cities Association, ACTUAL And Peace Innovation Institute Partner To Work With Cities Worldwide And Accelerate Their Transition To Decarbonization

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Fast Company

11 November 2021

Beyond Bending - Floor slab
Image: Block Research / ETH Zurich

These ingenious floors use 70% less concrete and 90% less steel

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The Washington Post / Stars and Stripes

11 November 2021

ANYmal robot
Image: ANYmal / ETH Zurich

Pentagon’s 3-year, $82M robot competition raises the question: How long until humans are obsolete?

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TechCrunch

9 November 2021

Microrobot
Image: Cornel Dillinger/ETH Zurich

These tiny robots inspired by starfish larva move courtesy of ultrasound

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SciTech Daily

7 November 2021

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Melt: Expedition to the Gorner Glacier (Documentary film from ESA)

Melt: Expedition to the Gorner Glacier

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The Economist

6 November 2021

Solar reactor
Image: ETH Zurich / Alessandro Della Bella

Green Aviation: Plucking aircraft fuel from thin air

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Chemistry World

5 November 2021

Water filtration in Peru
Image: ETH Zurich

Water filter that uses milk protein to catch arsenic achieves positive results in Peru

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Interesting Engineering

29 October 2021

Exoplanet
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The Closest Alien World to Our Solar System Might Have Oceans Like Earth and it's only 4 light-years away

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3D Printing Industry

28 October 2021

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How Robots are brought to life with 3D printing – ETH Dyana Customer Story

ETH Zurich engineers 3D print robotic cat with a ‘personality’ of its own

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Medical Xpress

26 October 2021

Green tea
Image: Adobe stock / KMNPhoto

Green tea catechins promote oxidative stress

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Vogue Italia

23 October 2021

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Sturm&Drang ? Osservatorio Fondazione Prada

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The Times

20 October 2021

ETH Zurich Professor Jack Dunitz
Jack Dunitz. Image: ETH Zurich

Jack Dunitz obituary

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Nature World News

19 October 2021

Plankton
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Warming Oceans Lead to Massive Global Planktons Migration, Disrupting Food Web Balance

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Science Alert

18 October 2021

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Plankton Is Undergoing a Global Migration, With Dire Consequences For The Food Web

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The Verge

13 October 2021

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TransforMR: Pose-Aware Object Substitution for Composing Alternate Mixed Realities (ISMAR '21)

Why look at reality when you can edit what you see in real time?

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Fast Company

13 October 2021

Forests
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This Google Maps for nature shows the global potential for restoring forests

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ScienceDaily

12 October 2021

Volcano
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How to better identify dangerous volcanoes

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Ars Technica

10 October 2021

Legged robots
Image: ETH Zurich

These virtual obstacle courses help real robots learn to walk

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Wired

8 October 2021

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ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab presents "Learning to walk in minutes using massively parallel deep RL

These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk

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DesignBoom

7 October 2021

NEST HiLO
NEST HiLo. Image: Empa

ETH Zurich finalizes ultra-thin curved concrete roof

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ArchDaily

7 October 2021

Funicular floors of HiLo NEST
Funicular floors of HiLo NEST. Image: Empa

HiLo NEST Research Building Takes Shape in Switzerland

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MarketScreener

29 September 2021

Sarah Springman
Image: Tomas Bartoletti

Barry Callebaut: Partnering with ETH Zurich and Ashesi University in Ghana to support engineers in sub-Saharan Africa

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Universe Today

29 September 2021

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DARPA Subterranean Challenge Final Event

Dozens of Robots Competed to Race Through Underground Caves

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SolarPaces

28 September 2021

ETH Spinoff

Solar Fuels Pioneer Synhelion Acquires Smart Mirror Expert Heliokon

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Dezeen

27 September 2021

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Live talk with Philippe Block, Shajay Bhooshan and Nollaig Forrest

Live talk with Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zurich and Holcim on their 3D-printed concrete bridge Striatus

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The Guardian

24 September 2021

Climeworks
Image: Julia Dunlop

Climate crisis: do we need millions of machines sucking CO2 from the air?

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World Economic Forum

23 September 2021

Failure
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Students who 'productively fail' may learn more, finds study

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

22 September 2021

NASA InSight lander
Image: NASA InSight

NASA’s InSight Finds Three Big Marsquakes, Thanks to Solar-Panel Dusting

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New Zealand Herald

22 September 2021

Forest
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Jane Goodall pledges one trillion trees by 2030 in Africa's Sahel

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3D Print.com

22 September 2021

Swissloop tunneling
Image: Jack Entremont

3D Printing Tunneling Machine Takes Second in Elon Musk Competition

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Chemical & Engineering News

21 September 2021

Jack Dunitz
Image: ETH Zurich

Jack Dunitz, crystallography pioneer, dies at 98

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The Economist

18 September 2021

ETH Spinoff

The world’s biggest carbon-removal plant switches on

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Yahoo! Finance

17 September 2021

Swissloop tunneling
Image: Swissloop Tunneling / ETH Zurich

Swiss Hyperloop Team Achieves Top Position at Not-a-Boring Competition

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TechXplore

17 September 2021

Values and trust
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Addressing the issue of using hacked data in research efforts

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Chemistry World

17 September 2021

Synthetic cells
Image: ETH Zurich

Fully synthetic proteins make tailored medicines

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Reuters

14 September 2021

ETH Spinoff

World's largest plant capturing carbon from air starts in Iceland

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Science Alert

14 September 2021

Invisibility cloaking
Illustration: ETH Zurich

Scientists Built a New Kind of Invisibility Cloak, But It's Not For Your Eyes

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Scientific American

13 September 2021

Solar flare
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Solar ‘Superflares’ Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago—and Could Strike Again

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Interesting Engineering

9 September 2021

Energy from walking on a floor
The wooden floor harvest energy from walking and turns on a lightbulb. Image: Sun et al / Matter

Electric Footsteps? Novel Wooden Floors Generate Power From Walking

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BBC - Science Focus Magazine

8 September 2021

Tea
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Put down the filter: Tea made with impure water tastes better

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ZME Science

7 September 2021

Iceland
Image: ETH Zurich

Could fiber optic cables predict Iceland’s next volcanic eruption?

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TechXplore

7 September 2021

ETH Spinoff

High-performance batteries for transporting mobility into the future

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Arabian Business

7 September 2021

Water Harvester
Water harvester. Image: ETH Zurich / Iwan Haechler

Behind the Swiss solution to the regional problem of water scarcity

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Daily Mail

1 September 2021

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This Wood Flooring Generates Energy By Being Walked On. Credit: Zenger

Wood you believe it! Scientists develop state-of-the-art wooden floor that captures enough energy to power a light bulb just by walking on it

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TechXplore

1 September 2021

Greenhouse gas measurement
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A carbon-neutral response to rising electricity demand

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Science Business

24 August 2021

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Computer algorithms could help in development of artificial proteins

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CNN Tech for Good

20 August 2021

Ecosystem map
Image: Crowther Lab / ETH Zurich

How mapping ecosystems can help restore them

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The New York Times

26 July 2021

Thermometer
Image: Pavel1964 / iStock

The world can expect more record-shattering heat waves, research shows.

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Reuters

10 August 2021

United Nations
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'Hours on a footnote’: Scientists felt joy, frustration in making U.N. climate report

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The Wall Street Journal

9 August 2021

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Some Climate Change Effects May Be Irreversible, U.N. Panel Says

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Fast Company

3 August 2021

Striatus
Image: Block Research Group / ETH Zurich

Ancient masonry gets a 21st-century update in this futuristic new bridge

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TechCrunch

2 August 2021

ETH Spinoff

ETH Zurich spinoff, Planted raises another $21M to expand its growing plant-based meat empire (and add schnitzel)

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The New York Times

22 July 2021

Mars Hubble
Image: Hubble

NASA Releases First Detailed Map of the Insides of Mars

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Science

9 July 2021

Richard Ernst
Richard Ernst. Image: Heidi Hostettler

Richard Ernst (1933–2021)

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Forbes

7 July 2021

Climatechange
Image: ETH Zurich

Deadly Heat Wave ‘Would Have Been Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change

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Designboom

6 July 2021

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Clay Rotunda. Gramazio Kohler / ETH Zurich

Custom robot by Gramazio Kohler at ETH Zurich builds undulating rotunda with 30,000 soft clay bricks for SE MusicLab in Bern, Switzerland.

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World Economic Forum

4 July 2021

Water harvester
Water harvester. Image: ETH Zurich / Iwan Haechler

This zero-energy device collects water from the air

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Fast Company

14 June 2021

Plastic waste
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There are thousands more toxic chemicals in plastic than we thought

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Wired

14 June 2021

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Focus Project Space Bok

How Do You Make a Robot Walk on Mars? It’s a Steep Challenge

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Science

11 June 2021

Expoplanet
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Europe picks categories for three flagship space missions

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Medium

30 May 2021

Philippe Kahn
ETH Zurich Alumnus, Philippe Kahn. Image: Connect Safely

How a Proud Father Changed the World of Communication Forever

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SWI swissinfo

21 May 2021

Didier Queloz
Didier Queloz. Image: ETH Zurich

Nobel winner Queloz to head new research centre in Zurich

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Architect

21 May 2021

Striatus
Image: Block Research Group / ETH Zurich / Naaro

Week in Tech: A 3D-Printed Concrete Bridge with Zaha Hadid Architects

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SWI swissinfo

14 May 2021

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Video: Said Sannuga, Cellscape.co.uk / ETH Zurich, The Ban Lab

Swiss scientists discover coronavirus’s ‘Achilles heel’

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U.S. News & World Report

13 May 2021

Aging eye
Image: Jodi Jacobson

Weight-Loss Surgery Might Also Help Prevent Cataracts

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SciTech Daily

10 May 2021

Graphene Keyboard
Graphene keyboard. Image: ETH Zurich / F. de Vries

Nanotechnology Breakthrough: A Material-Keyboard Made of Graphene

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Universe Today - Space and astronomy news

7 May 2021

Marsquake
Image: ETH Zurich

One Full Year of Seismic Data Collected by Mars Insight Includes 500 Quakes

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Forbes

30 April 2021

Glacier retreating
Image: ETH Zurich

Glaciers Are Retreating At A Faster Pace Globally

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Vanity Fair

29 April 2021

Glacier_La Prairie
Image: ETH Zurich

La Prairie’s Golden Touch

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Associated Press (AP)

28 April 2021

Glaciers
Image: ETH Zurich

Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever

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Forbes

26 April 2021

ETH Spinoff

World Of Forbes: Entrepreneurial Capitalism Across Our 35 International Editions

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Times Higher Education

26 April 2021

Gerd Kortemeyer
Gerd Kortemeyer. Image: ETH Zurich

For lifelong learning to work, students must own their educational data

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The New York Times

23 April 2021

Leichtgold
Image: ETH Zurich

Technology Could Turn You Into a Tiffany

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Forbes

20 April 2021

Voltage from Wood
Image: ACS Nano / Empa

Scientists Create Wood That Generates Useful Amounts Of Electricity

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SciTechDaily

4 April 2021

Uranus and Neptune
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Two Strange Planets: Unsolved Magnetic Mystery on Uranus and Neptune

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NASA Science

1 April 2021

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The Marsquake Service (MQS) center at ETH Zurich in Switzerland monitors daily seismic activity on Mars.

NASA's InSight Detects Two Sizable Quakes on Mars

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

29 March 2021

Brain
Image: ETH Zurich

Out of my mind: Advances in brain tech spur calls for 'neuro-rights'

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The New York Times

23 March 2021

NASA InSight seismometer
Image: ETH Zurich

Get Ready for the First Flight of NASA’s Mars Helicopter

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WIRED

24 March 2021

Geothermal lab
Image: ETH Zurich

Geothermal energy could save the planet. But watch for earthquakes

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Bloomberg Green

11 March 2021

Rain
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Add Dry Riverbeds and Overflowing Banks to the List of Things Made Worse by Climate Change

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World Economic Forum - Agenda

9 March 2021

Digital twin
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Scientists are building a digital twin of the Earth to fight climate change

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Tech Crunch

8 March 2021

ETH Spinoff logo

Swiss maker of meat alternatives Planted will expand and diversify with $18M Series A

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Gizmodo

24 February 2021

Martian Moon - Phobos
Illustration: Mark Garlick / markgarlick.com

Computer Simulations Suggest Martian Moons Were Separated at Birth More Than a Billion Years Ago

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Reuters

18 February 2021

Earth
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Planet Earth its quietest in decades as lockdowns reduce seismic noise

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Food Navigator

16 February 2021

Farming
Image: Colourbox

Nestlé and ETH Zurich establish research program to reduce carbon footprints

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DesignBoom

6 February 2021

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Digital Building Technologies / ETH Zurich

Students at ETH zurich use digital fabrication methods to build bamboo pavilion

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National Geographic

28 January 2021

Dyatlov pass group
Image: Dyatlov Memorial Foundation

Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?

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Fast Company

26 January 2021

Artificial limb
Image: ETH Zurich

Scientists can hack your nerves so artificial limbs feel lighter

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Businesswire

26 January 2021

ETH Spinoff

Microcaps Closes CHF 5 Million Seed Financing Round Co-led by Helvetica Capital and Zürcher Kantonalbank

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Tech Crunch

19 January 2021

ETH Spinoff logo

ETH spin-off LatticeFlow raises $2.8M to help build trustworthy AI systems

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Robotics Automation News

19 January 2021

ANYbotics raises $23 million in Series A funding

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Forbes

7 January 2021

Quadcopter
Image: ETH Zurich

Intel Is Inventing Faster, Smarter Drones With ‘Biological’ Brains And 1000X Faster Cameras

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