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How to trigger nerves and generate headlines
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Can paralysed people walk again? Yes, sometimes science achieves something miraculous. But what does it take to put an obvious concept into medical practice so that patients can actually benefit from it?
"Forests are complex systems"
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Remote sensing specialist Petra D’Odorico likes to fly drones. Not as a hobby, but rather to record high-resolution multispectral and thermal images, which can be used to create an early warning system to detect drought stress in forests before it becomes apparent.
AI-based predictions — A blessing or a curse?
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Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionise the way we make predictions. But how reliable are such predictions and modelling? What issues of trust arise? There are different approaches to analysing, translating and predicting the future with AI and the ETH Domain has recognised the potential.
The light inside the tunnel
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The Swiss Light Source at the PSI is currently undergoing an upgrade to ensure that it remains a centre of excellent research in the future. The project manager gave us a tour of the construction site.
All that's left behind
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Wastewater-based epidemiology can provide valuable insights into a population’s overall health. By analysing samples gleaned from wastewater, Eawag is helping medical experts shed new light on the prevalence of coronavirus infections during the pandemic. But the possibilities don’t end there.
"I'm here to learn, to make things happen"
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What do you do after having the most important job in the field of space research? After many years heading up research at NASA, Thomas Zurbuchen chose to come to ETH Zurich. But this career step is not as illogical as it might seem, as ETH Zurich aims to become Europe’s leading space research institution.
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