Global warming could accelerates CO2 emissions from the decomposition of soil microbes by up to 40% by the end of the century – most significantly in the polar regions (+119%)

RowPress: Amplifying read disturbance in modern DRAM chips [pdf]

Detailed Image of the Human Retina

Forests all over Europe suffer more from heat and drought in summer - in some years trees sometimes even die off completely

Physicists created the heaviest Schrödinger cat to date by putting a crystal in a superposition of two oscillation states

A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

A better predictor of workplace stress, than heart rate — model finds that people who are stressed make more mistakes when typing, and move the mouse pointer more often, less precisely

Researchers have developed an electronic yarn capable of precisely measuring how a person’s body moves, it’s integrated directly into sportswear or work clothing and predicts the wearer’s exhaustion level during physical exertion

ETH Zürich's position on AI in education and ChatGPT

New corrosion protection that repairs itself

Evaluating the Cost of Atomic Operations on Modern Architectures

ETH has published a Git repo of the latest version of Oberon/A2

A complex cytoskeleton, previously only observed in eukaryotic cells, is now found in a new species of archaea from the Asgard group, supporting the theory that eukaryotes evolved from Asgard archaea

Why conflict parties cease fighting

Magma on Mars Likely - Until now, Mars has been generally considered a geologically dead planet

Fighting tumours with magnetic bacteria

Climate change made the 2022 summer droughts more likely

It is not only classical genes that determine our predisposition to obesity, researchers have now shown that microRNA-7 molecules play a central role in the regulation of body weight: “is the first microRNA for which we’ve been able to demonstrate an association with obesity”

One more clue to the Moon’s origin

Switzerland's 1,400 glaciers have lost more than half their total volume since the early 1930s, a new study has found, and researchers say the ice retreat is accelerating at a time of growing concerns about climate change

Researchers have created the first full connectivity map of the human immune system, showing how immune cells communicate with each other and ways to modulate these pathways in disease, including many previously unknown interactions that shed light on the organisation of the body’s immune defences

Retbleed: Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions

Wearable Muscles

A new study shows that breast cancer metastases form more efficiently while patients are sleeping: “When the affected person is asleep, the tumour awakens”

Principles of Distributed Computing (lecture collection)

Small Guide to Giving Presentations

Proteins can suppress appetite, so a protein-​rich diet can help people lose weight

Researchers have developed a wearable device that plays specific sounds to enhance deep sleep

A team of ETH researchers led by Athina Anastasaki have succeeded in breaking down plastic into its molecular building blocks and in recovering over 90 percent of them

Finding Missed Optimizations through the Lens of Dead Code Elimination

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