How Tendons Become Stiffer and Stronger – Newly Discovered Cellular Mechanisms
Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich deciphered the cellular mechanisms through which tendons can adapt to mechanical stresses. People who carry a…
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Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich deciphered the cellular mechanisms through which tendons can adapt to mechanical stresses. People who carry a…
In its response to pathogens and vaccines, our immune system relies on dendritic cells. These white blood cells patrol the body’s tissues, collect components of…
Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded in turning specially prepared graphene flakes either into insulators or into superconductors by applying an electric voltage. This technique…
An international research team including scientists from ETH Zurich has shown that almost all the world’s glaciers are becoming thinner and losing mass’ and that…
Uranus and Neptune both have a completely skewed magnetic field, perhaps due to the planets’ special inner structures. But new experiments by ETH Zurich researchers…
Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have made wood compressible and turned it into a micro-generator. When it is loaded, an electrical voltage is generated….
An international research team with members from ETH has developed a new method for directly imaging smaller planets in the habitable zone of a neighboring…
Using the extinct niobium-92 atom, ETH researchers have been able to date events in the early solar system with greater precision than before. The study…
A digital twin of our planet is to simulate the Earth system in future. It is intended to support policy-makers in taking appropriate measures to…
Phobos and Deimos are the remains of a larger Martian moon that was disrupted between 1 and 2.7 billion years ago, say researchers from the…
An Epidemiological Blueprint for Understanding the Dynamics of a Pandemic Scientific and public health experts have been raising the alarm for decades, imploring public officials…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
An international research collaboration led by ETH Zurich and MIT has developed a mathematical method that can speed up search and rescue operations at…
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…