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22.09.2023 Evolutionary Biology

AI Increases Precision in Plant Observation

Researchers at UZH have used big data, machine learning and field observations in the university’s experimental garden to show how plants respond to changes in the environment.

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30.08.2023 Robotics

Challenge Accepted: High-speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers

EIn a milestone for artificial intelligence (AI), the AI system “Swift”, designed by UZH researchers, has beaten the world champions in drone racing – a result that seemed unattainable just a few years ago. The AI-piloted drone was trained in a simulated environment.

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14.07.2023 Pharma Research

AI Brings Hope for Patients with Lyosomal Storage Disease

Advances in the use of Big Data, learning algorithms and powerful computers improve research into serious metabolic disease.

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13.07.2023 Physics

New Superconductors Can Be Built Atom by Atom

The naturally occurring topology of atoms can make it difficult to create new physical effects. One atom at a time, researchers have now successfully designed new states of matter.

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05.07.2023 Innovative Teams

Passion Aplenty

Turning an exciting idea into a successful start-up firm requires vision, a lot of knowhow and good planning. But most of all, it requires different people who work together really well.

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03.07.2023 Us and ChatGPT

“Like a Swiss army knife”

ChatGPT is overrated as artificial intelligence and underrated as a language model, linguist Noah Bubenhofer says. He, philosopher Hans-Johann Glock, and computational linguist Rico Sennrich discuss how chatbots could change science, universities, and everyday work in the interview below.

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08.06.2023 2021/22 Sustainability Report

On the Path to Climate Neutrality

Over the past two years, UZH has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, the university has taken a number of effective measures to promote sustainable development, as shown in its latest Sustainability Report.

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02.05.2023 What We Believe

“Digital Trinity”

Digitalization is taking on certain social functions of religion. Faith in divine decisions is being replaced by our faith in algorithmic selection, says communications researcher Michael Latzer.

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19.04.2023 Sustainability

Infrequent Flyers

UZH aims to reduce its emissions from air travel by at least 53 percent by 2030. The faculties have now announced how they plan to achieve this goal.

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31.03.2023 Neuroscience

Scallop Eyes as Inspiration for New Microscope Pbjectives

Neuroscientists have developed new objectives that enable high-resolution imaging of tissues and organs in a much wider variety of immersion media than with conventional microscope lenses.

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29.03.2023 Sustainable Digitalization

“We’re not at the mercy of the future”

Digital technologies make many systems and processes more efficient. Lorenz Hilty, professor of informatics, is researching how the digital transformation can also be harnessed for sustainable development.

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22.03.2023 UZH Teaching Fund – Part 3: Engaged Teaching

Pitch Perfect

How do interdisciplinary teams develop ideas that are in touch with the world outside of university? In various innovation courses at UZH, students learn how they can translate their ideas into business solutions – including a reality check by industry experts.

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09.03.2023 LINA testing facility

Flying Toward the Future

A new testing facility at Dübendorf Airport enables researchers to develop autonomous systems such as drones from idea to marketable product. The facility was conceived thanks to the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions.

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16.02.2023 Medicine

Unlocking the Data Treasure Chest

The LOOP Zurich research center is creating a central platform to exchange health data between UZH, ETH Zurich and the four university hospitals in Zurich, making it possible to quickly and easily use this information for the benefit of patients.

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09.01.2023 UZH Spin-Offs in 2022

Entrepreneurial Milestones in Life Sciences

Three new spin-offs were founded at UZH in 2022, transferring scientific findings into industry practice. The business ventures explore new perspectives in the fight against cancer, space factories to produce human tissue, and ways to accelerate the development of novel drugs.

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19.10.2022 Space Research

A Factory in Outer Space

It’s possible to produce things in orbit that wouldn’t be possible on Earth, says Oliver Ullrich. We sat down with the biochemist and space physician to learn more about weightless cells, the UZH Space Hub, and humans as an interplanetary species.

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05.10.2022 Parabolic Flights

New Flight Platform Increases Flexibility in Research

The 6th Swiss Parabolic Flight Campaign, run by the UZH Space Hub and the Swiss Sky Lab Foundation, takes place at the Air Base Dübendorf from 3 to 14 October. It is the first time a campaign is featuring a Cessna Citation II research aircraft, operated by the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR). The airplane will carry four research projects into weightlessness.

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22.09.2022 10 years of the UZH Foundation

Fueling New Ideas

For 10 years, the UZH Foundation has been successfully raising funds for research, teaching and innovation – including for the Digital Entrepreneur Fellowship.

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08.09.2022 Climate change

Longer, hotter and more frequent heat waves in Swiss cities

Hot days followed by sweltering nights without any temperature relief in between might become a new norm towards the end of the 21st century. Researchers from the University of Zurich have analyzed the frequency, intensity and length of such extreme events for five Swiss cities. Lugano and Geneva would be most affected.

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29.08.2022 Medicine

Artificial Intelligence Improves Treatment in Women with Heart Attacks

Heart attacks in women are more likely to be fatal than in men. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now developed a novel artificial-intelligence-based risk score that improves personalized care for female patients with heart attacks.

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