June 2022
Featuring the best of ETH Zurich in the news and media from journalists around the globe.
Do breast cancer cells 'awaken' at night?
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Eight ETH start-ups win Venture award
Fifteen innovative start-?ups from five different sectors had good reason to celebrate after receiving prize money totalling more than CHF 500,000. In addition to the three call_made
Forget Lasers. The Hot New Tool for Physicists Is Sound
From acoustic tweezers to holograms, engineers are taking inspiration from the field of optics—and riding the sound wave. call_made
ETH Zurich's myoshirt is a wearable muscle offering upper-body strength + endurance
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Top Cryptographers Flag ‘Devastating’ Flaws in MEGA Cloud Storage
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A marsupial robotic system that combines a legged and an aerial robot
The winning team, CERBERUS, included members from both academia and industry, working at NTNU, UNR, ETH Zurich, UC Berkley, Oxford and Flyability. For the DARPA competition, the team at NTNU and call_made
Commission head urged to smooth UK and Swiss Horizon association
call_made Both nations have historically been key players in European Union science funding frameworks but their applications to join the latest scheme have been stymied by wider political disputes...Swiss signatories are Michael Hengartner, president of the board at ETH Zurich; Jo?l Mesot, the institution’s president; and Martin Vetterli, president of ?cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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Haelixa partners with Nettle Circle to make nettle fibers traceable
...Solutions provider Haelixa, which will aim to make Nettle Circle’s nettle fiber from the Himalaya traceable and forgery-proof using the technology developed by Haelixa. call_made
Prof. Tom Crowther: ‘Microbial soil life is crucial for climate regulation’
Interview with ETH Zurich Professor, Tom Crowther. "Soil microbiome is a crucial parameter for soil fertility and plant growth which means that they directly facilitate food security and carbon capture into ecosystems...call_made.
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AJ (Architects Journal UK) Innovation of the Year 2022 Winner Revealed
Zaha Hadid Architects has won AJ100 call_made.
U.N. nature summit set for Montreal as COVID-hit China steps aside
"Nature isn't only a tool in the fight against climate change. Nature is the reason we need to stop climate change," said Tom Crowther, a professor in ecology at ETH Zurich. "This is why it's critical for our governments to set and reach ambitious targets to stop and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 - and scheduling COP15 for this year is an essential first step," he added in a statement.
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Record-shattering events spur advances in tying climate change to extreme weather
A method called “ensemble boosting” described last month at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) could help modelers dissect such singular events. call_made
Scheurer Swiss implements carbon fiber-reinforced 3D printing for bouncing space robot
Engineering company, Scheurer Swiss GmbH (Volketswil, Switzerland), is supporting the call_made
Does your dog know when your cat is angry?
We already know animals feel emotions, and that they can understand humans' emotions. But can they understand each other's emotions? call_made
Frontiers is first publisher to join ‘Stick to Science’ initiative?
call_made.? Initiated by Universities UK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), public research university ETH Zurich, the ETH Board, Wellcome and The Royal Society, the ‘Stick to Science’ campaign calls for an open, inclusive, and collaborative research and innovation landscape in Europe that is free from political barriers.
A marsupial robotic system that combines a legged and an aerial robot
For the DARPA competition, the team at NTNU and call_made
Damaged liver kept for three days then used in successful transplant
A damaged human liver has been kept alive outside a human body for three days before being transplanted in a world first...call_made
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How to Make the Universe Think for Us
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Modern farm vehicles heavier than dinosaurs can damage soil for decades, study finds
“The intensification of modern call_made and co-author Thomas Keller, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Why are there no bridges over the Amazon River?
call_made..."There is no sufficiently pressing need for a bridge across the Amazon," Walter Kaufmann, Chair of Structural Engineering (Concrete Structures and Bridge Design) at ETH Zurich.
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