Archive Zeitfragen 2022

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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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• 23.08.2022 Eating Plants

  Weeding, Mulching, Sowing, Reaping

  Students garden on the Irchel Campus, and a literary scholar gets involved in a farming cooperative: the act of growing one's own vegetables contributes to food security, brings people together, makes them healthier and promotes sustainability.

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• 16.08.2022 Research Policy

  Seeds for All

  Important patents for gene-edited seeds are held by universities. While this presents an opportunity for farmers in developing countries, we are unlikely to see speedy deregulation of this new technology anytime soon.

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• 11.08.2022 Climate Change

  Extreme Heat and Drought Require More Systematic Risk Assessment

  Simultaneous extreme heat and drought have consequences in a variety of areas – for example the economy, health and food production. In addition, due to complex socio-economic connections, such extreme events can cause knock-on effects.

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• 06.07.2022 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute

  Looking at the Bigger Picture

  Covid infections are on the rise again. Time for UZH epidemiologists Milo Puhan and Viktor von Wyl to take stock and look ahead. With video.

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• 30.06.2022 Research on Aging

  Living Healthily for Longer

  2021-2030 has been declared the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing by the World Health Organization. Research into healthy longevity and the development of innovative approaches to aging have been a strategic priority at UZH for several years now. The creation of the new Healthy Longevity Center provides an added boost and a firm footing for research in this increasingly important area.

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• 29.06.2022 Sustainable Food

  More Broccoli, Less Steak

  If we want to avoid destroying our planet, we need to transform our eating habits – and this starts in our kitchens. We have to find a balance of healthy and sustainable food, with less meat and more veg.

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• 29.06.2022 World Biodiversity Forum

  Reversing the Trend

  At the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos this week, the focus is on how to slow down species loss and protect ecosystems. The UZH-organized conference aims to inspire action by bringing together researchers and practitioners.

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• 23.06.2022 Sustainability

  Dealing with Data and Water

  Sustainability has many aspects to it. Working at UZH also has an impact on the environment. We have compiled a few tips on how you can go about saving your data and using drinking water in a more sustainable way.

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• 15.06.2022 Finance

  Sustainable Investments by Private Banks Are Becoming Almost Standard Practice

  Private banks across Europe are meeting more client demands, new regulations and pressure from stakeholders with better qualified advisors. A new study carried out at the University of Zurich shows that banks are rising to the challenge of investing sustainably with varying degrees of success.

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• 13.06.2022 Biodiversity

  Diverse Forests Outyield Monocultures

  Multispecies tree plantations are more productive than monocultures, according to a new study carried out in China. UZH environmental scientist Bernhard Schmid was involved in the research.

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• 09.06.2022 Biodiversity

  Drought-Exposure History Improves Recovery of Grassland Communities from Subsequent Drought

  When a plant community is exposed to drought, the different species undergo evolutionary changes. An international study with UZH participation now shows that this leads to improved resilience to future drought stress over time.

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• 25.05.2022 Digital Society Initiative (DSI)

  From "Good" to "Ethical" Drones

  What is needed to turn "good" drones used for humanitarian purposes into "ethical" drones? And how can ethical values be integrated in the use and development of new technologies? Dr. Ning Wang reports on the role of the DSI in helping humanitarian organizations integrate ethical values into innovation practices.

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• 19.05.2022 Biodiversity

  Satellite Monitoring of Biodiversity Moves Within Reach

  Global biodiversity assessments require the collection of data on changes in plant biodiversity on an ongoing basis. Researchers from the universities of Zurich and Montréal have now shown that plant communities can be reliably monitored using imaging spectroscopy, which in the future will be possible via satellite. This paves the way for near real-time global biodiversity monitoring.

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• 12.05.2022 UZH Space Hub

  Robot Dog on the Way to the Moon

  The robotic explorer GLIMPSE, created at UZH and ETH Zurich, has made it into the final round of a competition for prospecting resources in space. The long-term goal is for the robot to explore the south polar region of the moon.

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• 05.04.2022 Sustainable Financing

  Climate-Aligned Financial Flows

  Working group III of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change yesterday presented their latest report. The report aims to provide science-based information to policymakers worldwide. Stefano Battiston is one of the lead authors of the chapter on investment and finance.

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• 31.03.2022 Evolutionary Biology

  A Single Gene Controls Species Diversity in an Ecosystem

  To test if a single gene could affect an entire ecosystem, a research team of the University of Zurich conducted a lab experiment with a plant and its associated ecosystem of insects. They found that plants with a mutation at a specific gene foster ecosystems with more insect species. The discovery of such a “keystone gene” could change current biodiversity conservation strategies.

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• 08.02.2022 Climate Change

  Arctic Winter Warming Causes Cold Damage in the Subtropics of East Asia

  Due to climate change, Arctic winters are getting warmer. An international study by UZH researchers shows that Arctic warming causes temperature anomalies and cold damage thousands of kilometers away in East Asia. This in turn leads to reduced vegetation growth, later blossoming, smaller harvests and reduced CO2 absorption by the forests in the region.

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• 02.02.2022 Covid-19

  Immunological Memory Provides Long-Term Protection against Coronavirus

  Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 by infection or vaccination generates immune cells that provide long-term immunity. These long-lived memory T cells play a key role in preventing severe cases of Covid-19. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now discovered how these memory T cells form.

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• 18.01.2022 UZH Spin-Offs in 2021

  Levelling Up

  Every year, innovative UZH researchers launch their own businesses – in 2021, four new spin-offs were founded. Spin-offs play a key role when it comes to transferring scientific findings into industry practice

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• 05.01.2022 Covid-19

  School Closures Led to More Sleep and Better Quality of Life for Adolescents

  The school closures in spring 2020 had a negative effect on the health and well-being of many young people. But homeschooling also had a positive flipside: Thanks to sleeping longer in the morning, many teenagers reported improved health and health-related quality of life.

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