University of Zurich

A virtual hands opens the door, and we move toward the patient, who has already removed his top. The hand reaches for a stethoscope and places it on the patient’s chest. This is when we see them. Virtual germs. First on our fingers and…

Researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich are taking magnetic resonance imaging a step further. With their new method, they can visualize metabolic processes in the body. Their objective is to improve the future diagnosis…

News media is reaching fewer and fewer people. Young adults consume just seven minutes of news per day on their smartphones. This poses a problem for democracy: news-deprived people are less interested in politics, have lower rates of…

Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians and fishes. Many of them are usually considered mute, but in fact show broad and complex acoustic repertoires.…

At least 33 young people have died from polydrug use in Switzerland since 2018. Polydrug use refers to taking two or more psychoactive substances at the same time. The young adults are often unaware of the associated risks and rarely use…

In the Harry Potter books, a person’s memory can be extracted from their brain with a sieve and examined and manipulated from the outside. Memories appear as silver wisps and can be stored in bottles. Two thousand years earlier, Plato…

The heat waves that swept across Europe this summer made many people realize how important plants are when it comes to cooling down the environment. But how do the various types of vegetation in the Arctic affect the energy exchange…

Legal data science refers to the application of data science principles to the law, for example through the computer-assisted systematic collection, processing and evaluation of data from legal contexts. This relatively young discipline…

Besides climate change, loss of biodiversity is one of the most urgent environmental problems facing the world today. Up to one million animal and plant species will be on the brink of extinction over the next few decades. These losses…

Borys Malkin (1917–2009) was an avid traveler. As a young man, he emigrated to the US, where he studied entomology and anthropology. After being drafted and fighting for the US armed forces in World War II, he completed his studies and…