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…
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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…
Unprecedented Insight Into the Birth of Photoelectrons and Fundamental Nature of Light-Matter Interactions
The first sub-femtosecond study of the linear photon momentum transfer during an ionization process provides unprecedented insight into the birth of photoelectrons. The interaction between…
New 3D Printer Produces Complex Glass Objects [Video]
ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects. The basis for this is a special resin that can…
Super-Fast Electro-Opto-Mechanical Switch for Future Cars and Quantum Computers
Switching light beams quickly is important in many technological applications. Researchers at ETH have now developed an “electro-opto-mechanical” switch for light beams that is considerably…
Milestone in Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Oscillators Paves Way to Even More Powerful Lasers
With the demonstration of a sub-picosecond thin-disk laser oscillator delivering a record-high 350-W average output power, the group of Ursula Keller sets a new benchmark…
Magnetic Building Blocks for Robotics – Can Be Assembled Into Shapes and Controlled by Magnetic Fields
ETH scientists have developed cube-shaped magnetic building blocks that can be assembled into two-dimensional shapes and controlled by an external magnetic field. They can be…
Artificial Intelligence Improves Biomedical Imaging
ETH researchers use artificial intelligence to improve quality of images recorded by a relatively new biomedical imaging method. This paves the way towards more accurate…
Artificial Intelligence Proves 30% More Accurate Than Humans at Analyzing Dark Matter
A team of physicists and computer scientists at ETH Zurich has developed a new approach to the problem of dark matter and dark energy in…
Quantum Transmission Between Two Solid-State Qubits at the Push of a Button
In the new quantum information technologies, fragile quantum states have to be transferred between distant quantum bits. Researchers at ETH have now realized such a…
ETH Astronomers Identify Six ‘Dark Galaxy’ Candidates
Based on new observational data, an international team led by ETH astronomers identified at least six candidates for ‘dark galaxies’ — galaxies that have a…
Quantum Cocktail Provides New Insights on Quantum Many-Body Systems
Experiments based on atoms in a shaken artificial crystal made of light offer novel insight into the physics of quantum many-body systems — which might…
Scientists Discover Genes for a Longer, Healthier Life
A team of scientists has discovered genes that are involved in physical aging. By influencing only one of these genes, the healthy lifespan of laboratory…
Researchers Produce Uniform Antimony Nanocrystals for the First Time
Researchers have produced uniform antimony nanocrystals for the first time, taking a big step forward in the exploration of alternative energy storage. Researchers from Empa…