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.
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.
Students build spatial interventions at HSG
A university building in St. Gallen needs to be enlivened. The joint project by the Department of Architecture and a sociologist combines analysis, design and self-?construction. And brings together architecture and economics students from ETH and HSG.
A bacterial trap for the search for metabolic virtuosos
Using a novel microfluidic chip, ETH researchers have shown that bacteria not only recognise small food molecules, but also swim towards large, complex polymers. A startup is now using these findings and applying the technology to find microbes that can break down pollutants. ?
Climate change threatens Antarctic meteorites
Antarctica harbours a large concentration of meteorites imbuing the icy continent with an unparalleled wealth of information on our Solar System. However, these precious meteorites are rapidly disappearing from the ice sheet surface due to global warming.