The Autumn Semester (HS) begins in week 38 (mid-September) and ends in week 51 (just before Christmas). It comprises 14 weeks. The Spring Semester (FS) begins in week 8 (mid-February) and ends in week ...

Overuse of our tendons can cause painful medical conditions for which only limited treatment options exist. Researchers have now deciphered an important molecular mechanism that triggers these ...

The evolution of our Earth is the story of its cooling: 4.5 billion years ago, extreme temperatures prevailed on the surface of the young Earth, and it was covered by a deep ocean of magma. Over ...

A team of physicists at ETH Zurich has created a tiny metalens that can half the wavelength of incident light. They have achieved this using a special metal-oxide lens material called lithium niobate ...

ETH Zurich researchers are for the first time using a technology known as “piezocatalysis” to break down hazardous PFOS chemicals in water with the help of nanoparticles and ultrasound. The method has ...

With just the press of a button, ETH researchers knit a textile that serves as the primary shaping element for curved concrete shells. Now they have used the new technology to create a five-tonne ...

Jedes Jahr zeichnet die Dimitris-N.-Chorafas-Stiftung zwei Nachwuchstalente aus, die an der ETH Zürich eine herausragende ...

ETH Zurich researchers conducted an experiment to investigate the initial steps in the formation of aerosols. Their findings are now aiding efforts to better understand and model that process – for ...

ETH researchers are making chocolates shimmer in rainbow colours without the addition of colourants. They have found a way to imprint a special structure on the surface of the chocolate to create a ...

Storing hydrogen is expensive and inefficient. In a pilot plant on ETH Zurich’s Hönggerberg campus, ETH researchers are showing how this could soon change. The researchers react the hydrogen with iron ...

In recent years, the night sky has filled with satellites from rapidly expanding constellations in low Earth orbit, driven by a booming space industry. While this development brings exciting ...

In brief Asgard archaea are a group of microorganisms discovered just ten years ago. They represent a link between bacteria, archaea and complex organisms, such as plants and animals. ETH researchers ...