Biochemical Random Number: Scientists Have Generated a Huge True Random Number Using DNA Synthesis
ETH scientists have generated a huge true random number using DNA synthesis. It is the first time that a number of this magnitude has been…
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Uncovering Mysteries of Earth’s Primeval Atmosphere 4.5 Billion Years Ago and the Emergence of Life
A team of international scientists led by ETH researcher Paolo Sossi has gained new insights into Earth’s atmosphere of 4.5 billion years ago. Their results…
New Findings Suggest That Many Geoscientists’ Understanding of the Earth’s Interior Is Too Simplistic
Current understanding is that the chemical composition of the Earth’s mantle is relatively homogeneous. But experiments conducted by ETH researchers now show that this view…
Textbooks and Geoscientists May Be Wrong About How the Alps Were Formed
ETH researchers have used a computer model to test a new hypothesis about the formation of the Alps while simulating seismic activity in Switzerland. This…
Surprise on Mars – Unexpected Reaction to Solar Eclipses From Martian Moon Phobos
NASA’s InSight mission provides data from the surface of Mars. Its seismometer, equipped with electronics built at ETH Zurich, not only records marsquakes, but unexpectedly…
Search and Rescue: How Mathematics Can Save Lives at Sea
An international research collaboration led by ETH Zurich and MIT has developed a mathematical method that can speed up search and rescue operations at…
Planetary Researchers Surprised to Find a “Ring of Fire” on Venus
ETH researchers used computer simulations to classify the current activity of corona structures on the surface of Venus. To their surprise, they found a previously…
Intricate Beauty, Quasiperiodic Structures, and the Cascade to Criticality
Combined theoretical and experimental work unveils a novel mechanism through which criticality emerges in quasiperiodic structures — a finding that provides unique insight into the…
Quantum Programming Breakthrough: First Intuitive Language for Quantum Computers
Several technical advances have been achieved recently in the pursuit of powerful quantum computers. Now, Computer scientists from ETH Zurich have made an important breakthrough…
First Global Map of Rockfalls on the Moon Shows Billions of Years Old Landscapes Are Still Changing
A research team from ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen counted over 136,000 rockfalls on the moon caused…
How Some Crops Replenish Their Own Fertilizer Through Bacteria in Their Roots – A Surprisingly Complex Interaction
Plants need nitrogen in the form of ammonium if they are to grow. In the case of a great many cultivated plants, farmers are obliged…
X-Ray Vision Through the Water Window Enables New Generation of Attosecond Technology
ETH physicists have developed the first high-repetition-rate laser source that produces coherent soft x-rays spanning the entire ‘water window,’ heralding the beginning of a new…
Marsquakes – InSight Mars Lander Opens a New Era for Planetary Seismology
Fifteen months after the successful landing of the NASA InSight mission on Mars, first scientific analyses of ETH Zurich researchers and their partners reveal that…
Next Generation Magnetic Memory Breakthrough: Writing Data in Under a Nanosecond
Researchers at ETH have measured the timing of single writing events in a novel magnetic memory device with a resolution of less than 100 picoseconds….
By Chance, Scientists Develop Ideal Bandage That Promotes Healing and Doesn’t Stick to Wound
Researchers from ETH Zurich and the National University of Singapore have developed a new kind of bandage that helps blood to clot and doesn’t stick…
Researchers Create New Lightweight 18-Carat Gold That Weighs 5 to 10 Times Less
ETH researchers have created an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold, using a matrix of plastic in place of metallic alloy elements. Lovers of gold watches and…
Fingerprints of Global Warming Detected in Daily Weather Observations at the Global Scale
Climate Signals Detected in Global Weather Searched for and found: climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at…
“DNA of Things” – Storing Extensive Data in Everyday Objects
Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. That’s not the case with inanimate objects: anyone wishing to 3D…