Further news
Here you will find a selection of the latest notifications, articles and news from the departments as well as from various administrative departments of ETH Zurich.
Building bridges between people and machines
The ongoing development of artificial intelligence is often presented as a race between humans and machines. ETH professor Menna El-?Assady takes a different approach: she wants to develop an AI that can be used interactively and that shapes its capabilities only in collaboration with humans.
Final design of ELT's METIS instrument completed
METIS is the first instrument of the Extremely Large Telescope to pass its final design review.
Global effort to gather environmental DNA
Inspired by the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, Kristy Deiner and her research team launched “LeDNA” – a project to gather global biodiversity data from nearly 500 lakes with the help of citizen scientists in more than 80 countries.
A bionanomachine for green chemistry
ETH Professor Volodymyr Korkhov has contributed to the structural elucidation of an enzyme.
“The term ‘Alpine fallow lands’ was a provocation”
Sociology professor Christian Schmid will retire this year. In the interview, he looks back on his time at the ETH Studio Basel, which sparked discussions with the book and whose publications will be freely available online as Open Access from May.
“The image of Heidi's Switzerland will change and there will be new natures”
Climate change leads to more landslides and flooding. ETH professor Martina Voser is investigating how landscape architecture can respond to this in the sandbox, on the computer and in dialogue with the population.
ETH Zurich sells district heating to the City of Zurich
The City of Zurich intends to take over ETH’s district heating system in the Zentrum area. With the sale, ETH is strengthening its focus and is drawing a line under a situation that has developed over time.
Substantial global cost of climate inaction
Pioneering study reveals that limiting global warming to 1.5?C could reduce the global economic costs of climate change by two thirds. If warming continues to 3?C, global GDP will decrease by up to 10 percent - with the worst impacts in less developed countries.
More projected warming in Switzerland due to neglected regional aerosol changes
Greenhouse gas emissions have led to substantial warming. However, the observed warming in Europe is stronger than typically projected in regional climate models. A new study shows that this is due to insufficient consideration of changes in aerosols in the models and implies higher warming than expected for the future.
Coadaptation of coexisting plants enhances productivity in an agricultural system
Organisms exposed to consistent interactions across generations often coevolve to optimize their coexistence. However, it is not known if plants coexisting over multiple generations in a community evolve to avoid competition and boost individual fitness. A study conducted by researchers at the Agricultural Ecology group at ETH Zurich tackles this question.