Switzerland's federal institute of technology pairs world-leading quantum, climate and health science with a famously inventive engineering culture.
An implantable system from Martin Fussenegger's Basel laboratory converts excess blood glucose into gluconate, pointing towards drug-free, electronically controlled treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Isotope analyses of OSIRIS-REx samples led by Maria Schönbächler show the asteroid's parent body formed near the Solar System's water-ice line as Jupiter grew, not in the distant outer reaches.
A core-shell polymer design lets organic light emitters survive photolithography for the first time, opening the way to ultra-sharp microdisplays for augmented reality.
Satellite DNA, long dismissed as useless, acts as a molecular barcode that stops chromosomes pairing with the wrong partners during egg formation in fruit flies.
A single cable laid across the Gorner Glacier imaged the ice like an ultrasound scan, revealing that about 8 per cent of a crevasse field is fractured, more damage than researchers expected.
A smartphone-linked breath analyser developed at ETH Zurich measures acetone, a marker of fat metabolism, almost as accurately as a laboratory mass spectrometer.
ETH physicists paired superconducting qubits with mechanical resonators, giving a quantum processor its own working memory for the first time.
A joint white paper with the Paul Scherrer Institute finds new reactors pay off only with government risk-sharing and sharply lower construction and financing costs.
A Nature Food study traces about 1.5 per cent of global species loss to oil crops, with impacts up roughly 80 per cent since 1995 and driven by consumption rather than population growth.
Two entangled superconducting chips produced random numbers certifiably free of bias, the first time any experiment has achieved it, with implications for cryptography and public randomness services.
The Earth System Foundation Model reconstructs missing satellite data and tracked Super Typhoon Doksuri over several days, despite never having seen the storm in training.
Zircon crystals from Greece's Methana volcano show magma quietly accumulating through 100,000 years of apparent dormancy, a warning for volcanoes around the world labelled extinct.
A Science study shows soil physics, not plant biology, sets the limit on drought survival, helping to explain decades of disappointing drought-resistant crop breeding.
Genome reconstruction of 645 microbial species from Pacific corals reveals an untapped reservoir of natural products, with over 99 per cent of the species new to genomic science.
ETH cryptographers demonstrated 25 attacks on Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane, undermining the claim that not even the providers can read users' stored passwords.
The transcription factor HIF1 causes overuse tendon disease rather than merely accompanying it, opening a route towards the first drug treatments for tendinopathy.
The NAC complex recruits enzymes to the ribosome in strict sequence to modify histone proteins as they are made, with implications for understanding cancer.
A camouflaged CRISPR screening method avoids distorting immune reactions in mice and immediately flagged a new target pathway for metastatic breast cancer.