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The world’s tallest 3D-printed tower – known as Tor Alva (meaning “White Tower” in Romansh) – was inaugurated in Mulegns. Tor Alva showcases how digital construction techniques can be used to build ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich develop smart textiles that use acoustic waves instead of electronics to measure touch, pressure and movement precisely. SonoTextiles work with glass microfibres that conduct ...

In order to cover 60 per cent of Switzerland's electricity demand from new renewable energy sources by 2050, the capacity of solar power systems would have to quadruple compared to today. The capacity ...

Friend or Food: Why Are Iceland’s Orcas Taking in Pilot Whales? external page Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed ...

The MONKEE climbing robot has two arms and three adhesion points and can adeptly move around in trees, both vertically and sideways, adapting to different trunk shapes and surfaces. This allows it to ...

The new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors arises from speculative technologies that anticipate individual computing steps. Openings enable gradual reading of entire privilege memory ...

The external page Swiss National Science Foundation established the National Centers of Competence in Research (NCCR) as a long-term funding programme for promoting research on topics of strategic ...

Over a period of three years, seven ETH professors investigated what cities could look like if bikes, micro-mobility and public transport were given priority and what cities can do to ensure that ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich mapped protein interactions in eleven human tissues using over 7,800 human tissue samples. Around a quarter of the protein interactions the researchers found are limited to a ...

“When we published our initial work on capturing CO 2 from the air 20 years ago, no one was interested. Today it’s a priority research topic at the world’s leading universities. The situation ...

Researchers have, for the first time, directly observed the flow of water beneath the ice of West Antarctica. They drilled a 500-metre-deep hole through the Antarctic ice sheet until they reached ...