June 2022
Featuring the best of ETH Zurich in the news and media from journalists around the globe.
Do breast cancer cells 'awaken' at night?
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UK News Today, 1 July 2022, external pageCancer ‘grows best while you’re sleeping’: Scientists warn tumours ‘awaken’ during the nightcall_made
USA Today, 24 June 2022, external pageCancer signs: The ‘most common’ sign in people with ‘advanced cancer’ – ‘very troubling’call_made
News 9 (TV), 30 June 2022, external pageStudy finds breast cancer circulating cells active when person is asleep; expert says more research neededcall_made
Cancer Health, 29 June 2022, external pageBreast Cancer Cells Are More Likely to Spread During Sleepcall_made
Channel 3000 (TV), 27 June 2022, external pageSimilar body odors may draw people together, breast cancer may spread faster at night, and more health newscall_made
MD Edge - Hematology & Oncology, 28 June 2022, external page‘Unexpected’: Breast cancer spreads most during sleepcall_made
Medscape, 28 June 2022, external page'Unexpected': Breast Cancer Spreads Most During Sleepcall_made
MEDPAGE Today, 28 June 2022, external pageBreast Cancer's Spread Accelerates During Sleepcall_made
DNA India, 28 June 2022, external pageStudy shows breast cancer can spread during sleepcall_made
The Science Times, 27 June 2022, external pageBreast Cancer Metastasis Accelerates as Patients Sleep at Nightcall_made
Bloomberg Europe, 27 June 2022, external pageAngle PLC Announces Spread of Breast Cancer Accelerates During Sleepcall_made
Science Alert, 26 June 2022, external pageBreast Cancer Spreads More Aggressively at Night, Startling New Study Findscall_made
News 18 (TV), 25 June 2022, external pageCancer Cells Spread More at Night, Says Studycall_made
CTV News, 24 June 2022, external pageBreast cancer ‘tumour awakens’ as patient sleeps: studycall_made
Expresss UK, 24 June 2022, external pageCancer signs: The ‘most common’ sign in people with ‘advanced cancer’ - ‘very troubling’call_made
Opioid poisoning on the rise in Switzerland
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MENAFN / SwissInfo, 28 June 2022, external pageOpioid Abuse On The Rise In Switzerlandcall_made
Eight ETH start-ups win Venture award
Fifteen innovative start-?ups from five different sectors had good reason to celebrate after receiving prize money totalling more than CHF 500,000. In addition to the three external pageETH spin-?offs DeepJudge, Kaspar& and Versics, five other start-?ups with strong ties to ETH Zurich were among the winners: Alter Ego, DeepPsy, Groam, Samplab und Veritic. This year, for the first time, the jury also evaluated the sustainability of the nominees’ business ideas.call_made
From milligrams to gigatons: Startup that sucks carbon dioxide from the air is building a big plant in Iceland
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SingularityHub, 29 June 2022, external pageA New Carbon Capture Plant Will Pull 36,000 Tons of CO2 From the Air Each Yearcall_made
Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2022, external pageWorld's largest direct air carbon capture facility begins construction in Icelandcall_made
Forget Lasers. The Hot New Tool for Physicists Is Sound
From acoustic tweezers to holograms, engineers are taking inspiration from the field of optics—and riding the sound wave. external pageSound waves can also steer objects inside organisms. Daniel Ahmed, an engineer at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, recently used ultrasound to move hollow plastic beads inside a live zebrafish embryo.call_made
ETH Zurich's myoshirt is a wearable muscle offering upper-body strength + endurance
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The Robot Report, 29 June 2022, external pageETH Zurich develops wearable musclescall_made
TechXplore, 24 June 2022, external pageResearchers develop a wearable textile exomusclecall_made
Technology Networks, 28 June 2022, external page"Wearable Muscles" Could Increase Strength and Endurancecall_made
Adafruit (blog), 29 June 2022, external pageMyoshirt is a Wearable Exomuscle for the Upper Body #WearableWednesdaycall_made
Wonderful Engineering, 28 June 2022, external pageWATCH: These New Wearable Muscles Can Offer Extra Support To The Physically Disabledcall_made
Medical Design & Outsourcing, 27 June 2022, external pageResearchers develop wearable robotic exomuscle systemcall_made
+Mass Device, 27 June 2022, external pageResearchers develop wearable robotic exomuscle systemcall_made
New Atlas, 26 June 2022, external pageWearable muscles offer an impressive upper-body endurance boostcall_made
TechnoCodex, 24 June 2022, external pageWearable arm muscles could help overcome upper body injuriescall_made
IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2022, external pageVideo Friday...Your weekly selection of awesome robot videoscall_made
The_Byte, (2022), external pageMyoshirtcall_made
Scientists Use Vegetable Oil Byproduct to Remove Heavy Metals From Contaminated Water
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New Atlas, 28 June 2022, external pageLow-cost filters use plant waste to remove heavy metals from watercall_made
TrendHunter, 28 June 2022, external pageThese Oilseed Meal Water Filters Capture Heavy Metals from Watercall_made
Optimist Daily, 28 June 2022, external pageVegetable oil byproduct can filter heavy metals from watercall_made
WaterWorld, 24 June 2022, external pageResearchers filter heavy metals from water using plant wastecall_made
Smart Water Magazine, 24 June 2022, external pageScientists decontaminate heavy metal water using protein from plant wastecall_made
Top Cryptographers Flag ‘Devastating’ Flaws in MEGA Cloud Storage
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Ars Technica, 21 June 2022, external pageMega says it can’t decrypt your files. New POC exploit shows otherwisecall_made
WFMZ (New Zealand Radio), 21 June 2022, "external pageMEGA Security Updatecall_made"
Gizmodo, 22 June 2022, "external pageFormer Piracy Hub Megaupload's Cofounders Unsurprisingly in Spat Over Crimes (and Security Flaws)call_made"
IT Security News, 22 June 2022, "external pageResearchers found flaws in MEGA that allowed to decrypt of user datacall_made
The Hacker News, 22 June 2022, "external pageResearchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of 'MEGA' Cloud Storage Servicecall_made"
The Register, 22 June 2022, "external pageMega's unbreakable encryption proves to be anything butcall_made"
Security Week, 23 June 2022, "external pageTop Cryptographers Flag 'Devastating' Flaws in MEGA Cloud Storagecall_made"
Security Affairs, 23 June 2022, "external pageResearchers found flaws in MEGA that allowed to decrypt of user datacall_made."
National Cyber Security News Today, 23 June 2022, "external pageResearchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of ‘MEGA’ Cloud Storage Servicecall_made"
Tech Radar, 23 June 2022, "external pageThis top cloud storage firm has some Mega security issuescall_made"
ITSECURITY WIRE, 24 June 2022, external pageTop Cryptographers Identify “Catastrophic” Vulnerabilities in MEGA Cloud Storagecall_made
A marsupial robotic system that combines a legged and an aerial robot
The winning team, CERBERUS, included members from both academia and industry, working at NTNU, UNR, ETH Zurich, UC Berkley, Oxford and Flyability. For the DARPA competition, the team at NTNU and external pageETH Zurich developed a marsupial robotic system that enabled collaborative exploration and mapping capabilities between a legged and aerial robot in a marsupial configuration.call_made
Wearable arm muscles could help overcome upper body injuries
ETH Zurich might have a solution to improve your arm strength. external pageThey've developed the Myoshirt, a wearable arm exomuscle that can compensate for conditions and injuries affecting the upper body.call_made
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Independent, 24 June 2022, external pageScientists build wearable ‘exomuscle’ that boosts upper body strength and endurancecall_made (breaking news broadcast)
Marine organisms are a rich source of natural products
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ScienceDaily, 22 June 2022, "external pageTapping the ocean as a source of natural productscall_made"
PHYS.org, 22 June 2022, "external pageTapping the ocean as a source of natural productscall_made"
Smart Water Magazine, 23 June 2022, external page"Tapping the ocean as a source of natural products"call_made
Scientific Inquirer, 28 June 2022, external pageTapping the ocean as a source of natural productscall_made
Commission head urged to smooth UK and Swiss Horizon association
external pageEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has been urged to unblock the UK and Switzerland’s hopes of associating to the Horizon Europe research programme.call_made Both nations have historically been key players in European Union science funding frameworks but their applications to join the latest scheme have been stymied by wider political disputes...Swiss signatories are Michael Hengartner, president of the board at ETH Zurich; Jo?l Mesot, the institution’s president; and Martin Vetterli, president of ?cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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SCIENCE BUSINESS, 23 June 2022, "external pageUK and Swiss scientists make last-ditch appeal to Commission president over Horizon associationcall_made"
Research Professional News, 23 June 2022, "external pageR&D leaders ask Commission president to ‘intervene’ on Horizoncall_made
Haelixa partners with Nettle Circle to make nettle fibers traceable
...Solutions provider Haelixa, which will aim to make Nettle Circle’s nettle fiber from the Himalaya traceable and forgery-proof using the technology developed by Haelixa. external pageHaelixa, a spin-off ETH Zurich, has developed a DNA-based tracer that allows things to be registered without the use of physical labels or certificates.call_made
Breast cancer ‘spreads while you sleep’
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New Scientist, 22 June 2022, "external pageBreast cancer is more likely to spread during sleepcall_made"
ecancer, 22 June 2022, "external pageBreast cancer mainly spreads at nightcall_made"
EXPRESS (UK), 22 June 2022, "external pageBreast cancer spreads at night: New warning for millions of Britons over horror diseasecall_made"
DailyMail UK, 22 June 2022, "external pageCancer 'grows best while you're SLEEPING': Scientists warn tumours 'awaken' during the nightcall_made
The Scientist, 23 June 2022, "external pageWhile the Body Rests, Breast Cancer Spreads More Aggressivelycall_made"
Drugs.com, 23 June 2022, "external pageBreast Cancer May Spread Faster at Nightcall_made"
Prof. Tom Crowther: ‘Microbial soil life is crucial for climate regulation’
Interview with ETH Zurich Professor, Tom Crowther. "Soil microbiome is a crucial parameter for soil fertility and plant growth which means that they directly facilitate food security and carbon capture into ecosystems...external pagehealthy diversity is key in fighting climate change. If biodiversity is missing, there is no healthy carbon storage possible because we are losing species’ mixtures and the functioning of those ecosystems. More species above and below the surface means that more carbon is sequestered in the long term. Our ecosystems-thinking needs to include microbial communitiescall_made.
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European Science-Media Hub, 22 June 2022, "external pageMicrobiomes: the unseen majority of tiny little thingscall_made"
AJ (Architects Journal UK) Innovation of the Year 2022 Winner Revealed
Zaha Hadid Architects has won AJ100 external pageInnovation of the Year for Striatus, a 3D-printed concrete bridge developed with Block Research Group at ETH Zürichcall_made.
Printing to build unique ‘hopping’ space robot for exploring asteroids
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3D PRINT.com, 23 June 2022, external pageAsteroid Hopping Robot Reinforced with 3D Printed Carbon Fibercall_made
We need to simplify the chemistry industry to make it sustainable
external pageOp-ed by Martin Scheringer, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, ETH Zurichcall_made.
U.N. nature summit set for Montreal as COVID-hit China steps aside
"Nature isn't only a tool in the fight against climate change. Nature is the reason we need to stop climate change," said Tom Crowther, a professor in ecology at ETH Zurich. "This is why it's critical for our governments to set and reach ambitious targets to stop and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 - and scheduling COP15 for this year is an essential first step," he added in a statement.
external pageCrowther was among the signatories of an open letter to environment ministers on Friday from green groups, scientific institutions and business organisations, warning of the risks of not fixing a COP15 date before the Nairobi talks.call_made
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Eco-Business, 21 June 2022, external pageUN nature summit set for Montreal as Covid-hit China steps asidecall_made
Record-shattering events spur advances in tying climate change to extreme weather
A method called “ensemble boosting” described last month at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) could help modelers dissect such singular events. external pageA team led by Erich Fischer, a climate modeler at ETH Zürich, has run a climate model many times over, looking for heat extremes similar to the 2021 heat wave...“We’re trying to push the model to the most extreme state,” Fischer says.call_made
Scientists Reveal Krypton In Mars Meteorite, Rewriting Red Planet's History
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SCIENMAG (Science Magazine), 16 June 2022, external pageMartian meteorite upsets planet formation theorycall_made
Popular Science, 16 June 2022, external pageHow did Mars get its gasses? A special space rock holds clues. A Martian meteorite suggests the Red Planet and Earth weren't created at the same speed.call_made
Science Alert, 20 June 2022, external pageMeteorite Discovery Challenges Our Understanding of How Mars Formedcall_made
Scheurer Swiss implements carbon fiber-reinforced 3D printing for bouncing space robot
Engineering company, Scheurer Swiss GmbH (Volketswil, Switzerland), is supporting the external pageETH Zurich focus project, “SpaceHopper,” a three-legged hopping robot that is specifically designed for controlled locomotion in zero gravity and is expected to provide new opportunities for asteroid exploration.call_made
Does your dog know when your cat is angry?
We already know animals feel emotions, and that they can understand humans' emotions. But can they understand each other's emotions? external pageResearchers from the University of Copenhagen and ETH Zurich observed a number of animals: domestic horses, wild horses (specifically, a breed called Przewalski’s horse), domestic pigs, and wild boars. They tested whether these animals could discriminate between the positive and negative emotions of members of their own species, related species, and humans.call_made
Researchers map African cassava genome to boost its qualities
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Modern Ghana, 11 June 2022, external pageScientists have successfully mapped African cassava genomecall_made
Nigerian Tribune, 14 June 2022, external pageScientists record breakthrough, successfully map African cassava genomecall_made
Science Africa, 14 June 2022, external pageGenome Mapping of African Cassava to Accelerate Breedingcall_made
Frontiers is first publisher to join ‘Stick to Science’ initiative?
external pageFrontiers has become the first publisher to join the ‘Stick to Science’ initiative to support open scientific collaborationcall_made.? Initiated by Universities UK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), public research university ETH Zurich, the ETH Board, Wellcome and The Royal Society, the ‘Stick to Science’ campaign calls for an open, inclusive, and collaborative research and innovation landscape in Europe that is free from political barriers.
Ancient Asteroids Reveal That The Early Solar System Was More Chaotic Than We Thought
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Space.com, 6 June 2022, external pageIron meteorites point to millions of years of chaos in early solar systemcall_made
Science Times, 6 June 2022, external pageAncient Asteroids Revealed to Have Repeated Collision of Rocks, Boulders, and Planetesimalscall_made
ArchyNewsy, 7 June 2022, external pageAncient asteroids reveal how chaotic the early solar system wascall_made
Aga Khan Award for Architecture shortlists 20 projects from 16 countries
Expandable House, Batam, Indonesia, by external pageETH Zurich/Stephen Cairns with Miya Irawati, Azwan Aziz, Dioguna Putra and Sumiadi Rahman. This new sustainable dwelling prototype is designed to be flexibly configured around its residents’ (often) precarious resources over time.call_made
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Dezeen, 8 June 2022, external pageBuildings in Niger, Sharjah and Cape Verde shortlisted for 2022 Aga Khan Awardcall_made
E-Architect, 4 June 2022, external pageExpandable House, Batam, Riau Islandscall_made
ArchDaily, 2 June 2022, external pageAga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 Selects 20 Shortlisted Projects from 16 Countriescall_made
Canadian Architect, 17 June 2022, external pageAga Khan Award for Architecture announces 2022 shortlistcall_made
This machine could make many more livers available for transplant
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Toronto Sun, 3 June 2022, external pageThis machine could make many more livers available for transplantcall_made
MedEdge - Internal Medicine (magazine), 2 June 2022, external pageLiver transplanted after 3 days outside bodycall_made
HTWorld (UK), 6 June 2022, external pageFirst successful transplant of human liver treated in a machinecall_made
NEWSWEEK, 7 June 2022, external pageDoctors Transplant Damaged Liver After Treating It for Three Dayscall_made
What comes after the James Webb Space Telescope? Some astronomers want LIFE.
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US News 18 - New York, 2 June 2022, external pageIn exoplanets, LIFE vs. James Webb Space Telescopecall_made
ArchNewsy, 8 June 2022, external pageLIFE, the Advanced Technology That Will Reveal More Extrasolar Somedaycall_made
A marsupial robotic system that combines a legged and an aerial robot
For the DARPA competition, the team at NTNU and external pageETH Zurich developed a marsupial robotic system that enabled collaborative exploration and mapping capabilities between a legged and aerial robot in a marsupial configuration.call_made
Damaged liver kept for three days then used in successful transplant
A damaged human liver has been kept alive outside a human body for three days before being transplanted in a world first...external pageMark Tibbitt, professor of macromolecular engineering at ETH Zurich, added: “The interdisciplinary approach to solving complex biomedical challenges embodied in this project is the future of medicine.call_made
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Medscape, 2 June 2022, external pageLiver Transplanted After 3 Days Outside Bodycall_made
ZME Science, 1 June 2022, external pageNew technique made transplanting a 3-day-old donor liver possiblecall_made
Engineering & Technology, 1 June, external pageDoctors successfully transplant liver that spent three days outside a bodycall_made
INDEPENDENT, 31 May 2022, external pageWorld first as human liver kept for three days successfully transplanted – studycall_made
Wired Focus, 31 May 2022, external pageDamaged human liver successfully treated and transplanted into patientcall_made
Mail Online, 31 May 2022, external pageWorld-first operation sees ‘sub-standard’ donor liver REPAIRED by machine that pumped it with drugs for three days before being successfully transplanted into now-thriving patientcall_made
News Medical & Life Sciences, 31 May 2022, external pageLiver4Life research team treated damaged liver in a machine and then implanted the recovered organcall_made
CNET, 31 May 2022, external pageDamaged Liver Is Repaired in Machine for Three Days, Then Transplantedcall_made
How to Make the Universe Think for Us
“We are reinventing not just the hardware,” said external pageBenjamin Scellier, a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in Switzerland who helped design a new physical learning algorithm, but “also the whole computing paradigm.”call_made
Modern farm vehicles heavier than dinosaurs can damage soil for decades, study finds
“The intensification of modern external pagefood production...poses a threat to the long-term productivity of arable land...The steady increase in the weight of modern agricultural vehicles may have already caused chronic subsoil compaction,” wrote Dani Or, Professor of Soil and Terrestrial Environmental physics at ETH Zurichcall_made and co-author Thomas Keller, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Why are there no bridges over the Amazon River?
external pageDespite being around 4,300 miles in length, the Amazon River surprisingly has no bridgescall_made..."There is no sufficiently pressing need for a bridge across the Amazon," Walter Kaufmann, Chair of Structural Engineering (Concrete Structures and Bridge Design) at ETH Zurich.
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Nature World News, 1 June 2022, external pageDespite Being the World's Second-Longest River, Why Are There No Bridges in Amazon?call_made
India Times, 31 May 2022, external pageHere's Why The The 6,400-km-long Amazon River Has No Bridgescall_made
How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth’s ‘Goldilocks’ climate
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The Conversation, 25 May 2022, external pageHow plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth’s ‘Goldilocks’ climatecall_made
Space.com, 6 June 2022, external pageHow plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climatecall_made
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