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Stars and planets are formed from the same cosmic gas and dust. In the course of the formation process, some of the material condenses and forms rocky planets, the rest is either accumulated by the star or becomes part of gaseous planets.…

“It is often not until later that you realize a revolution has just taken place,” says bioethicist Alta Charo in the documentary Human Nature. The CRISPR Revolution, which tells the story of CRISPR’s development. In the same movie,…

The University of Zurich has just taken a big step forward on the open science path. At its meeting on 28 September 2021, the Executive Board of the University approved the Open Science Policy, with the aim of establishing a culture of…

Friday, 24 September, 14:00: Laboratory manager Andrew A. Clark proudly shows the first group of visitors around the new LiRI laboratory, with its interconnected sound-proof cabins and rooms equipped for video recordings and EEG tests.…

Understanding how the brain is built and how it achieves its enormous complexity, consisting of billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses, may hold the key to enable brain repair in the context of numerous devastating brain…

Rebecca Saladin and Marc Seematter join me online for our interview from their new offices at Plattenstrasse 54. After various temporary locations, the Employee Assistance Office has now found its permanent home: On the top floor of a…

As they browsed more than 60 exhibition stands, visitors had the chance to gain insights into current research projects, try out brand new technology and chat directly with the scientists.The opportunity was taken up with enthusiasm:…

We made it. Our closest relatives didn’t. Over the course of evolution, humans have developed a capacity for language that is unparalleled in the animal kingdom. No other animal has a system of communication as versatile as our language.…

Tall people often have tall parents. Short people usually do not. What generations of humans had observed was finally explained by genetics: children inherit their parents’ genes and therefore share many of their traits. In some ways,…

The Delta variant is rapidly spreading across Switzerland and the number of cases is increasing daily. Will we soon be seeing a return to stricter coronavirus measures? This is a question the University of Zurich is grappling with too. At…