The active ingredient digoxin, a substance found in foxglove, reduces the number of cells in clusters of breast cancer cells circulating in the blood. These clusters are responsible for the formation ...

Many reinforced concrete structures have been built in Switzerland and Central Europe since the 1960s. Time leaves its mark: chemical changes in the concrete may result in steel corrosion. Researchers ...

What if your device could charge in a minute and last all day? Spin-off BTRY uses advanced semiconductor techniques to make energy storage faster, safer and more efficient – unlocking new ...

What if we could produce cellulose without cutting down a single tree? Meet Treeless, an ETH spin-off harnessing bacteria and organic waste to create biodegradable and recyclable nanocellulose.

Nina Wiedemann is a doctoral student in Geomatics at the Mobility Information Engineering Lab at ETH Zurich and researches machine learning methods for sustainable mobility. Anyone who uses apps on a ...

Doctoral students can gain 2 ECTS points. Research data management (RDM) is essential for your research. Our next Summer School will provide you with all the tools you need. Structured RDM allows you ...

Europe’s largest capacity geotechnical centrifuge is being inaugurated at the Hönggerberg campus. The centrifuge is able to accelerate models so quickly that they are subjected to up to two hundred ...

It is no secret: chemical production has always strived for efficient, cost-effective processes. Catalysts play an important role in this. However, many are not understood well and contain materials ...

Scientists around the world are on a mission to serve society. They are working on solutions to many of the global challenges we face today and will face in the future. To this end, political, ...

The start of a new year is often used to take stock of the past and look to the future. At last Tuesday's virtual New Year's town hall, the members of the Executive Board looked back at the most ...

The Communication Academy is a continuing education programme for science communication. Through the Academy, ETH’s Corporate Communications aims to raise awareness among scientists of the great ...

Up to that 9.4% of Earth's terrestrial ecosystems face potential transformation by 2050 due to changes in tropical cyclone activity. In their study, Chahan M. Kropf and colleagues from ETH Zurich show ...