Chemistry
World Soil Day: How earthworms “dispose” of CO2 in the soil
Research
WSL
The Swiss soil of the year 2025 is characterized by earthworms. WSL researchers are investigating how their activity affects forest soils.
From cell partitions to dams: These barriers are being investigated by ETH researchers
Research
ETH Zurich
Research areas at ETH Zurich span barriers in a wide variety of fields, including cell biology, drug delivery and spatial planning. Below, we look at examples from six different disciplines.
New pharmaceutically active substances from billions of newly combined molecules
Research
ETH Zurich
Pharmaceutical researchers often find new pharmaceutically active substances only by sifting through large collections of chemical compounds. Chemists at ETH Zurich have now made critical progress on a specific process for generating and searching these collections.
Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
Research
ETH Zurich
Researchers at ETH Zurich are using iron to store hydrogen safely and for long periods. In the future, this technology could be used for seasonal energy storage.
Chemical plastics recycling is ready to go
Research
ETH Zurich
Scientists around the world can now go full throttle in their research into chemical plastics recycling. Researchers at ETH Zurich have laid important foundations for this by showing that it’s all about the stirring.
Predicting the toxicity of chemicals with AI
Research
Eawag
Researchers at Eawag and the Swiss Data Science Center have trained AI algorithms with a comprehensive ecotoxicological dataset. Now their machine learning models can predict how toxic chemicals are to fish.
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