March 2022
The best of ETH Zurich news from journalists around the globe.
This month's top story
call_made --The New York Times
The following international news content features in digital, English-language platforms. ETH Zurich also appears in numerous broadcast television shows, films, and print publications. Some publications may require a subscription to view content (noted by the symbol here), while others allow free access to a limited number of articles.
Mars more volcanically active than we thought, marsquakes hidden in NASA Insight data suggest
InSight's data is beamed twice daily back to Earth, where seismologists in the Marsquake Service manually pore over it as it comes in, searching for telltale quake signatures, call_made
How UK and Swiss researchers are coping without association to Horizon Europe
The UK and Switzerland are normally stalwarts of the EU’s research and innovation frameworks. But this time around call_made
The weird world of non-C operating systems
call_made..He (also) designed the Ceres workstation, with an OS implemented in a new language, Oberon, whose text-based tiling-window interface inspired the successor to Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs...Later researchers at ETH built a language called Active Oberon, and using that, a newer OS with a slightly more conventional zooming GUI called “Bluebottle”. Originally the new Oberon OS was called AOS, but so are multiple other projects, so now it’s called A2.
Concrete fails. We need new ways to assess climate risk
call_made “In the generally very high alkaline environment of concrete, where the pH may be higher than 13, steel is considered passive, which means it is covered by a thin layer of protective oxides and its corrosion rate is negligibly low.”
Costa Rica will be the First Country to use New Platform to Map Forest Protection
Costa Rica will be the first country to map its forest protection projects, with the help of a call_made
The Web Foundation is taking on deceptive design
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This new algorithm could help computers predict tipping points for the climate
call_made, together with researchers at the University of Bremen, have now found a new way to get computers to extract, directly from experimental data, nonlinear dynamical models that can make substantially more accurate predictions than previous algorithms.
Know Where the Crowds Are With the New CrowdMeter App
Initial research into the potential impacts of call_made
Oink, oink: scientists decode pig emotions from their sounds
In the study published earlier this month, researchers from the University of Copenhagen, ETH Zurich and the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment recorded 7,414 sounds from 411 pigs in different scenarios. call_made
This Important Geophysical Robot on Mars May Die Soon
call_made After all, other space missions have lasted well beyond their original timelines.
An Alpha Centauri planet? Astronomers make a leap
Astronomers at ETH Zurich have now made a leap in imagining a yet-to-be-discovered world within this nearby double star system. They used a call_made
World Sleep Day: Diagnosing chronic respiratory diseases from within the bedroom
call_made Using machine-learning algorithms and low-power electromagnetic waves, Sleepiz AG has developed a revolutionary and patient-centered approach for diagnosing sleep apnea.
These are the most international universities in the world in 2022
The ranking is encouragingly diverse, with the top 10 featuring representation from five regions. call_made.
What would an alien 'Earth' look like around the star next door?
In a new study, researchers predict what an alien "Earth" could really look like, and how it could evolve (if one exists). call_made
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Inference Sensing and In-Memory Computing Chip Startup Claims 20 TOPS/W
Reexen, a neuromorphic engineering startup based in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chengdu, China, and in Zurich, Switzerland...call_made
March 14 Birthday Albert Einstein
call_made. In 1901 he received Swiss citizenship. which he kept for the rest of his life...
FluidFM - Where Nanofluidics and AFM Meet
Fluidic force microscopy (FluidFM) combines atomic force microscopy (AFM) with micro-channeled probes connected to a pressure controller that enables force-sensitive nanopipette experiments under aqueous conditions...call_made
New insight about how blood clots are formed during wound healing
Research carried out by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in collaboration with researchers at call_made
How Robots Learn to Hike
The robot has learned to combine visual perception of its environment with proprioception – its sense of touch – based on direct leg contact using a new control technology, which researchers at call_made
Kyiv’s hackers seize their wartime moment
Ukrainian cyber experts put their skills to use retaliating against Moscow. call_made
Nanobots snap up pollutants with their polymer ‘hands’ to clean up water
Increasing concentrations of micropollutants in the aquatic environment is causing concern, and conventional wastewater treatment facilities struggle to remove them..call_made
When Pigs Cry: Tool Decodes the Emotional Lives of Swine
An algorithm built by European researchers including call_made
International Women's Day; In conversation with Dr. Nako Nakatsuka
Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich's Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, call_made
Scientists Can Now Decode Pigs’ Emotions From the Sound of Their Grunts
Using thousands of acoustic recordings gathered throughout the lives of pigs, from their births to deaths, an international team of researchers is the first in the world to translate pig grunts into actual emotions across an extended number of conditions and life stages. The research is led by the University of Copenhagen, the call_made
Who is Hansjorg Wyss and what is his net worth? Swiss Billionaire interested in buying Chelsea
Hansjorg Wyss has reportedly admitted interest in purchasing Chelsea (the English professional football club), but only as part of consortium. Wyss has been labelled as call_made before earning an MBA from Havard in the US six years later.
Like bacteria firing spearguns
Biologists from ETH Zurich have discovered novel speargun-like molecular injection systems in two types of bacteria and have described their structures, for the first time, in two recent papers in the journal Nature Microbiology. While these phenomena of nature might seem like they are straight of a science fiction film, they are call_made
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SWISS Plans to Become First Airline to Use Solar Fuel
call_made The process devised by Synhelion uses concentrated sunlight to produce carbon-neutral kerosene. With this collaboration, SWISS and Synhelion are playing a pioneering role in the production and adoption of sustainable aviation fuels.
