Climate Change Is Slowing Earth’s Rotation
Melting polar ice due to climate change is redistributing Earth’s mass, slowing its rotation and slightly extending the day, as highlighted by ETH Zurich’s studies…
ETH Zurich, founded in 1855, is a prestigious public research university located in Zurich, Switzerland. Known for its strong emphasis on science, engineering, and technology, ETH Zurich offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. The university is renowned for its cutting-edge research, innovation, and academic excellence, consistently ranking among the top universities globally. ETH Zurich has produced numerous Nobel laureates and is recognized for its contributions to various scientific and technological fields.
Melting polar ice due to climate change is redistributing Earth’s mass, slowing its rotation and slightly extending the day, as highlighted by ETH Zurich’s studies…
Scientists are developing a process inspired by nature that efficiently recovers europium from old fluorescent lamps. The approach could lead to the long-awaited recycling of…
ETH Zurich has developed a method that dramatically cuts down on fluorine use in lithium metal batteries, doubling energy storage capacity while enhancing safety and…
An international research team has estimated that Mars is hit by 280 to 360 large meteorites annually, based on seismic data from NASA’s InSight Mission….
In the future solar energy could be used to produce cement or steel, instead of burning coal or oil for this purpose. Researchers at ETH…
New cocoa-fruit chocolate boosts health, sustainability, and farmer incomes by fully utilizing the cocoa-fruit. ETH researchers have developed a type of chocolate that is more…
Researchers at ETH Zurich have, for the first time, made visible how electrons form vortices in a material at room temperature. Their experiment used a…
Scientists have developed a protein-based gel that breaks down alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract without harming the body. In the future, people who take the…
The chemical industry primarily depends on fossil resources like crude oil to manufacture a range of chemicals, including plastics, dyes, and synthetic flavors. “Globally, it…
Generally, it’s advised not to compare apples to oranges. However, in the field of topology, a branch of mathematics, this comparison is necessary. Apples and…
Prior to the emergence of life on Earth, essential chemistry was necessary to create organic molecules from the elemental building blocks of nitrogen, sulfur, carbon,…
Life is indeed possible on Earth. This has been demonstrated in a study conducted by the Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at ETH Zurich….
Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for every tenth of a degree…
Researchers at ETH have managed to trap ions using static electric and magnetic fields and to perform quantum operations on them. In the future, such…
Transforming base materials into gold was one of the elusive goals of the alchemists of yore. Now Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Department of Health…
A few years ago, a team of researchers working under Professor Stanisa Raspopovic at the ETH Zurich Neuroengineering Lab gained worldwide attention when they announced…
At the beginning of November, The New York Times ran the headline, “America is using up its groundwater like there’s no tomorrow.” The journalists from…
Sensors used in monitoring infrastructure like bridges and buildings, or in medical devices like prostheses for the hearing impaired, need a continuous power source. Typically,…