ETH Zurich ranks eleventh in this year’s THE rankings. This means it remains the highest-ranked university outside the Anglo-Saxon sphere. As in previous years, the university achieved its highest ...

In brief The power plants along the River Limmat can generate some 2 percent more electricity if Lake Zurich’s water level is managed in line with an adapted regulation – as ETH Zurich researchers ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed artificial muscles that are lighter, safer and more robust than their predecessors. The newly developed actuators have a novel type of shell structure and use ...

The production of modern electronic components requires materials with very diverse properties. There are isolators, for instance, which do not conduct electric current, and superconductors which ...

We foster dialog and support collaboration between ETH Zurich and our partners, and work to ensure that knowledge from ETH translates to national and global impact via collaborations, licensing of ...

ETH Zurich's second campus, built from 1961, is located in the north of the city in a rural setting on the Hönggerberg. ETH Zurich's space requirements have been increasing for years and are ...

Die Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines (FFQM) und die Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft (DPhG) haben Dr. Christian ...

ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (EPFL) are intensifying their collaboration in artificial intelligence (AI). They have founded the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI) with the aim of addressing challenges ...

Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus binding ...

Thin mulch films made of polyethylene are used in agriculture in numerous countries, where they cause extensive soil contamination. Researchers at ETH Zurich and Eawag have now identified an ...

An international team of researchers combine orbital imagery with seismological data from NASA’s Mars InSight lander to derive a new impact rate for meteorite strikes on Mars. Seismology also offers a ...

The evolution of our Earth is the story of its cooling: 4.5 billion years ago, extreme temperatures prevailed on the surface of the young Earth, and it was covered by a deep ocean of magma. Over ...