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Research, innovation, technology transfer, politics and many other exciting topics from the institutions of the ETH Domain (ETH Zurich, EPFL, PSI, WSL, Empa and Eawag) are featured in our newsletter. Subscribe and receive a selection of articles published on Sciena every month!

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Fusion of medicine and technology at EPFL | 60th anniversary of the Hotlab at PSI | Technology transfer at Empa
14. November 2024
AI: new institute founded by ETH Zurich and EPFL | Detecting drought stress in forests | Inauguration of Alps, one of the world's most powerful computers
10. October 2024
Health data in wastewater | The Arctic bears witness to climate change | Operating from 9,300km away
12. September 2024
AI predictions: curse or blessing? | 4 billion people without drinking water | X-ray world record
22. August 2024
Visit to the SLS construction site | Antibiotic-resistant germs | Spotlight on promising spin-offs
04. July 2024
Efficiently removing CO2 from the atmosphere | Healthier, more sustainable chocolate | AI: discovery of new photovoltaic materials
06. June 2024
To train the next generation of space leaders | New giant particle accelerator in Geneva | AI – Avalanche Intelligence
16. May 2024
How AI is changing science – and your beliefs | How dense construction is being accepted | Saving meteorites from climate change
18. April 2024
Flying without impacting the climate | AI-powered system maps corals | Cutting-edge research from Basel
21. March 2024
Finding answers to climate change | ICRC saves millions thanks to ETH Zurich | A temperature-sensing bionic hand
29. February 2024
New AI network in the fight against global inequality | New spin-off record at ETH Zurich | New research initiative for the atmosphere
18. January 2024
Brain drain in Ukraine | ETH Zurich plans research center in Germany | EPFL and UBS are launching a strategic partnership
14. December 2023
Less snow for winter sports | AI to develop new drugs | Quagga mussel: prognosis for swiss lakes
30. November 2023
Neuroprosthetic for patients with Parkinson | Bacteria for wound healing | Research funding for quantum computing projects
09. November 2023
AI for avalanche warning systems | A new tool shows the decline of political language in the US | The darkest river in the world
26. October 2023
World nutrition "from field to fork" | Brain stimulation during deep sleep benefits the heart | Clay as a clean alternative
12. October 2023
Funding 2025–2028 insufficient for the ETH Domain | Gene therapy against paralysis in spinal cord injuries | Robots in battery research
28. September 2023
A bridge between research and innovative solutions | Early autumn colours in forests | On a quest for new particles
14. September 2023
Increasingly deadly heatwaves | Why we opt for solar panels | A promising new resin
31. August 2023
Making nanostructures visible | Two thirds of biodiversity in soils | Implementing an idea in a computer
17. August 2023
Greener recycling for PET | AI technology from ETH Zürich in Pixar movie | FireDrone for extreme temperature environments
06. July 2023
ETH Zurich and EPFL united in an energy coalition | A spy in the belly | Harvesting tomatoes with Chat-GPT
22. June 2023
A CO2-neutral Switzerland by 2050 | From NASA to ETH Zurich | A piece of Empa on your wrist
08. June 2023
“It all comes down to the last atom” | Storing CO2 in the Icelandic underground | Feeling warmth in phantom hand
25. May 2023
What makes insects disappear | Insulating glass bricks | How to create a new song with AI
04. May 2023
“The magic of 8 and 24” | Energy transition: wood is trump | Biodegradable data collectors
20. April 2023
AI Moratorium? | Our Forests in Danger | Explore Jupiter
06. April 2023
EPFL researcher receives the "Nobel Prize in Water" | Does daylight saving time make sense? | Emotional trauma as a legacy
23. March 2023
How to secure our gas supply | More accurate weather and climate models | Where toxins in tobacco smoke attack DNA
09. March 2023
Origin of extreme heat | Wastewater turned into bioplastics | Encrypt with colours
23. February 2023
Carbon reducing insulation material | Limits of solar expansion | EPFL in space
09. February 2023
SLF appointed world-leading competence centre | South Korean President at ETH Zurich | Deflecting lightning with a laser
26. January 2023
Ozone layer recovery on track | Solar fuels out of thin air | Snow-free Switzerland
12. January 2023
50 years of storm data | Preparing for blackouts | Personalised therapies against infections
15. December 2022
Golden Rice on a large scale | Plastic gobblers in alpine soils | Energy security in Switzerland
01. December 2022
Antibiotic resistance | Performant through good mental health | Technology transfer centre ANAXAM
17. November 2022
Unicorns from the ETH Domain | Do-it-yourself water filter | Transistor from the printer
03. November 2022
FemTech without taboos | ETH Zurich ranked 11th | An increasingly extreme climate
20. October 2022
CO2 as a valuable resource | New advanced manufacturing center opens up | Early autumn colours as a bad omen
06. October 2022
“Swiss Nobel Prize” for ETH professor | Unexpected research results | Winner at "Falling Walls"
22. September 2022
Secure funding for international research | Exploring the origin of life | Energy transition
08. September 2022
Isotopes and climate change | Patch for stomach and intestines | PSI’s own brand
25. August 2022
Fields Medal for an EPFL professor | Chamois' reaction to climate change | Talented mathematician and cycling sensation
14. July 2022
Parliament supports Switzerland as a research location | Exploiting the ocean as a source of natural products | PET from biomass
30. June 2022
Cyanobacteria arsenal | Hercules and X-rays | Students acquire a taste for entrepreneurship
16. June 2022
Horizon Europe: Foreign Affairs Commission calls for negotiations | Radio astronomy to foster research | Digital twins against food waste
02. June 2022
Quantum leap at ETH Zurich | Glowing glass on the ISS | Nominated for the European Inventor Award
19. May 2022
Plastics absorbed by trees | Social impact of disasters | Thinking in different time frames
05. May 2022
Mistakes in science | Virtual world, real threats | Clean water thanks to solar filter
21. April 2022
Curbing climate change | Antimicrobial bandage | Memory of the ice
07. April 2022
Gene Technology Act | 30 speed limit in cities | Interview with Michael Ambühl about Ukraine
24. March 2022
Girl Power: erasing bias from algorithms | Wondrous world of light antennas | Aerosol mapping in the Arctic
10. March 2022
AI and big data can help preserve wildlife | More objectivity in the energy debate | Start-up reinvents the user manual
24. February 2022
Call for open scientific collaboration in Europe | Implant offers promise for the paralysed | Manure as an underused energy resource
10. February 2022
Next Target: Net Zero Emissions | Plastic in the Alps | A label for digital responsibility
27. January 2022
Discourse on animal testing | AI optimizing indoor temperatures | Magnificent complexity of the Alhambra revealed
13. January 2022
Surprise on the genetic engineering moratorium | Interview with Alain Fuchs | Rethinking Switzerland's built infrastructure
23. December 2021
ETH Zurich and EPFL launch a joint doctoral programme | 25 years of proton therapy | The EU is hitting the limits in the US system
09. December 2021
Healthy newborns thanks to AI | Most advanced cryo-electron microscopes | Writing fungi
25. November 2021
Excellence through Diversity | Exclusion from the Horizon Europe programme | The role of aerosols in climate change
11. November 2021
More girls in STEM disciplines | Water for heat reduction | The fickleness of fame
28. October 2021
Thriller about the cohesion contribution | Scientists discover an antibody against SARS-CoV-2 | The underground as a haven for biodiversity
14. October 2021
Detecting dementia in the blood | Research with animals | What is a quantum system?
30. September 2021
In Parliament: Cohesion Billion and Gene Technology Act | Latsis Prize for Professor of Oncology at ETH Zurich | The Open Science Revolution
16. September 2021
Apprenticeship – the hidden face of research | ETH Zurich is the most sustainable Swiss university | Uncertainty spurs scientific progress
02. September 2021
Climate change is happening here and now | Effectively removing CO2 | Science and politics podcast
19. August 2021
Machine learning is transforming science | Switzerland and the EU – where to now? | Secret of Stradivarius violins revealed
05. August 2021
Replace animal experiments | The summer session of parliament | Worrying insights in plastics
01. July 2021
Ask uncomfortable questions | Discrimination as a waste of resources | Better choice of contraceptives
17. June 2021
A cleaner science | Nobel laureate Didier Queloz is moving to ETH Zurich | Amazon and CO2
03. June 2021
Science and politics | Achilles heel of the Coronavirus | Innovative research campus
20. May 2021
Irreversible losses | Quantum computers | COVID-19 test
06. May 2021
Energy city of the future | Why study biodiversity? | Rivers and CO2
22. April 2021
Master key against viruses | In the eye of the storm | Supercomputer "Alps"
08. April 2021
Animal experiments | Women at EPFL | Switzerland's energy transition
18. March 2021
Green fuels for aviation | Scientific cooperation with Asia | Biomass-based plastics
04. March 2021
Ban on animal experiments | New Swiss unicorn | Women in Science
18. February 2021
Student and manager of a major project | New take on an old mystery | New virus variants
04. February 2021
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