Latest ETH Zurich Stories
- High Concentration PhotoVoltaic Thermal system able to convert 80 percent of the collected solar energy ZURICH, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today on Earth Day, scientists have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2,000 times and converting 80 percent of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide desalinated water and cool air in sunny, remote locations where they are often...
ETH Life Inspired by plant components that respond to external stimuli, material scientists from ETH Zurich have devised a new method for producing composite materials from a variety of materials that adopt a pre-programmed shape autonomously. Plant components that bend, roll or twist in response to external stimuli such as temperature or moisture are fairly commonplace in nature and often play a role in the dispersal of seeds. Pine cones, for instance, close their scales when wet and...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Doctors routinely use blood or urine samples to test for signs of illness or disease and a new study from a group of Swiss researchers indicates that a person’s breath could soon be added to that list. According to the study, which appeared in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, the researchers were also able to discriminate between individual breath signatures as if they were fingerprints. Previous research has shown that trained...
ZURICH, October 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr. Branco Weiss, who died in 2010, has remembered the organization Society in Science - The Branco Weiss Fellowship in his will with a donation of an estimated amount of 100 million Swiss francs. The fellowship belongs to ETH Zurich and supports young researchers throughout the world. By testation, Dr. Branco Weiss has increased the donation to Society in Science - The Branco Weiss...
LÜNEBURG, Germany, October 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leuphana University is entering the online tertiary education sector. Participation in its new "Digital School" is open to people from all over the world free of charge and with unrestricted admission. Leuphana is the first German University to offer a digital range via its own facility. A special feature is the awarding of University creditpoints. Depending on their home university, these credits may be applicable to...
ZÜRICH, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A global study carried out by the brand value rating agency BV4, in cooperation with the Department of Social Media Management of the HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich, ranks for the first time the most valuable social network brands. Facebook takes the top of the ranking with an estimated brand value of $29.115 bn, followed by YouTube with a brand value of $18.099 bn, and Twitter with $13.309 bn. Less...
DUBAI, January 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EPFL Middle East recently held the first in a series of workshops on the intelligent governance of large urban systems. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) workshop provided an overview of the management and governance of transportation systems across the greater Middle East region. In particular, the workshop explored the role ICTs already play and increasingly will play in urban transportation systems with...
BALTIMORE, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Laureate Education, Inc. acquired Germany's BTK Group, consisting of the BTK University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Academies of Design in Berlin and Hamburg (BTK/HTK), bolstering its global network of private post-secondary institutions. The addition of these institutions expands the Laureate International Universities network in Germany and enhances the strong portfolio of design programs offered by Laureate institutions worldwide. In 2008,...
Biological computer destroys cancer cells Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-specific molecular factors, triggering cancer cells destruction. Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Professor of Synthetic Biology at ETH Zurich, has spent a large part of his career developing biological...
ARMONK, N.Y. and ZURICH, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced researchers from science and technology university ETH Zurich and CloudBroker, a high-performance cloud computing company, have partnered with IBM to use cloud computing technology to conduct cutting-edge research focused on developing new antibiotics to fight disease. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) According to the World Health Organization, the number of antimicrobial...
