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An extraordinary heat wave is assailing the world's oceans with an intensity that is surprising climate researchers. Environmental physicist Nicolas Gruber provides some context.
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2023
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One proven method for tracking down the genetic causes of diseases is to knock out a single gene in animals and study the consequences this has for the organism. The problem is that for many diseases, the pathology is determined ...
Biotechnology
Sep 20, 2023
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Yannek Käber, a doctoral student in the Professorship of Forest Ecology at ETH Zurich, and his colleagues from ETH and WSL together with the European Forest Research Initiative (EuFoRIa), have taken a look at regeneration ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2023
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Most people consider climate change to consist only of the warming of the atmosphere, the consequences of which primarily affect land regions. However, this is a human-centered view and does not go far enough.
Earth Sciences
Sep 12, 2023
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Pancreatic β-cells are essential for secreting insulin to regulate glucose homeostasis. During metabolic stress they respond by increasing insulin production and secretion and proliferation to meet the increased metabolic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2023
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Using a new analytical method, ETH Zurich doctoral student Julie Lestang aims to determine the chemical profile of cacao beans reliably and quickly. This forms the basis for controlled fermentation—and high-quality chocolate.
Biotechnology
Sep 7, 2023
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The risk of fatal heat waves has risen sharply over the past 20 years. In the future, such extreme weather will become more frequent and heat-related excess mortality will increase. Europe will be particularly affected, as ...
Environment
Aug 25, 2023
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For centuries, human activity has intentionally or unintentionally driven the spread of plant species to areas far outside their native habitat. On average, about 10% of non-native species worldwide become invasive, often ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2023
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The ability to utilize a mere single alternative food source is all it takes for diarrhea-causing Salmonella bacteria to bloom when a gut is already colonized by a closely related strain, according to researchers from ETH ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2023
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A recent eLife paper by the group of Volodymyr Korkhov (IMBB, ETHZ & PSI), in collaboration with the Francesco Gervasio (UniGe), Mario Bortolozzi (UniPD), Paola Picotti (IMSB, ETHZ) and Nicola Zamboni (IMSB, ETHZ) groups ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 14, 2023
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