A global new survey shows there’s no crisis of trust in scientists, as some might claim. But there are some nuances. The new global plastics treaty needs to tackle inequalities that surround how ...

The employment indicator calculated by the Centre for Business Cycle Research (KOF) in Zurich slumped to 2.6 points at the start of 2025, continuing an uninterrupted erosion since the third quarter of ...

A team of geophysicists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has identified anomalies in the Earth's lower mantle ...

Tree researcher Thomas Crowther is seeking to move his laboratory from ETH Zurich, which says it will not renew his contract.

In 1911 the Federal Polytechnic School was renamed the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). This marked the end of an intensive debate on reform which had ...

C-terminal amidation is a PTM that involves the addition of an amid group to the C-terminus of a peptide or protein. Currently there is no direct evidence to suggest that C-terminal amidation of ...

The nuclear researcher has just arrived from Lausanne, where he teaches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). He spent the previous evening at the Montreux Jazz Festival ...

The Swiss federal government outlines the purpose of the two universities and four research institutes in the external page Federal Institutes of Technology Act (FIT Act): To educate students and ...

To answer these questions, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL) and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have analyzed ...