In the “Embedded Systems” course, 400 students work on their own prototypes. An open-source hardware platform and an AI assistant enable project-based learning, even in large classes. According to ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have drawn up the first Europe-wide map of landscape quality and highlighted where wind energy and landscape protection overlap. Generally, the European costs of wind energy ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) have correlated geoinformation data from 30 major cities worldwide with data on traffic congestion. Deploying a newly developed ...

Welchen Einfluss Klimaveränderungen auf Pflanzen haben, zeigt sich praktisch vor unseren Augen. Wie sieht es aber umgekehrt aus? Welche Rolle spielt das Vegetationssystem bei der Klimaregulation? Dies ...

Zink aus der Industrie und der Verbrennung von fossilen Brennstoffen gelangt bis in die entlegensten Ozeane, wie Forschende ...

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 ...

Helma Wennemers, Professorin am Laboratorium für Organische Chemie D-CHAB, hat die Wilhelm-Ostwald-Medaille für ihre ...

Among other factors, ETH Zurich’s excellent reputation among researchers around the world and the large number of widely cited publications were key to securing first place. ETH Zurich is also one of ...

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 ...

ETH Zurich researchers conducted an experiment to investigate the initial steps in the formation of aerosols. Their findings are now aiding efforts to better understand and model that process – for ...

In an international collaboration, researchers at ETH are searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model and for a particle that could explain dark matter. The researchers are carrying out highly ...

3D printing can be used to build load-bearing concrete structures that require significantly less material and no steel reinforcement or mortar. ETH architects and engineers from the Block Research ...