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13.08.2025 Glaciology

Falling Ice Drives Glacial Retreat in Greenland

When an iceberg calves, huge chunks of ice break off at the end of the glacier. These trigger high waves on the surface and underwater, pushing warmer sea water upwards. This accelerates the melting of the ice masses.

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12.08.2025 Technology development

AI Meets CRISPR for Precise Gene Editing

The powerful new method opens the door to more accurate modeling of human diseases and lays the groundwork for next-gen gene therapies.

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06.08.2025 Evolutionary Anthropology

Gorillas Move Between Groups

When female gorillas move to a new social group, they seek out groups with familiar females and avoid males they grew up with.

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29.07.2025 Corporate Due Diligence

Economic Success and Ethical Supply Chains Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Do supply chain due diligence laws harm the economy? A recent study found no long-term economic disadvantages for firms subject to such regulations.

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23.07.2025 Language Development

Preterm Infants More Likely to Experience Delayed Language Development

Differences in early language development, which is key to later communication skills, social interaction and academic success, emerge during infancy.

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17.07.2025 Remote Sensing

Wounded Rainforest

Alexander Damm-Reiser uses satellite data to analyze the impact of companies on biodiversity, ecosystems and environmental damage.

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16.07.2025 Evolutionary biology

How Did Complex Life Evolve?

Fungi, plants, animals and humans are made of eukaryotic cells. These cells evolved at a late stage in the evolution of life.

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14.07.2025 Evolutionary Medicine

Swiss Genome of the 1918 Influenza Virus Reconstructed

Researchers discovered that the virus already had key adaptations to the human host at the beginning of the world's deadliest influenza pandemic.

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09.07.2025 Regenerative Medicine

Biomedicine Inspires at Osaka Expo

Stem cell researcher Melanie Generali shares how UZH scientists brought high-tech medicine to the public at the Expo in Osaka – without resorting to jargon.

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09.07.2025 One Health

Mapping Disease Across the Globe

Thomas Van Boeckel investigates environmental factors, global patterns of infectious disease and antibiotic resistance in order to better combat these issues.

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08.07.2025 Global Health

“Antibiotic resistance is a global problem like climate change”

Biochemist and microbiologist Markus Seeger explains why international, multidisciplinary exchange is key in the fight against AMR.

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04.07.2025 Artificial Intelligence

A Faster Path to Tailor-Made Voting Advice

An algorithm developed by computer scientists at UZH aims to enhance the quality of voting advice provided on the Smartvote online platform.

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02.07.2025 Visual Culture Research

False Heroes and a Disappearing Soldier

Roland Meyer studies how our perception of images is shifting in the digital world and why the political right loves AI-generated imagery.

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26.06.2025 Literature

Contrary and Audacious

In the 1970s, women founded their own publishing companies, explored new ways of writing and dared to rebel against the patriarchy.

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26.06.2025 Evolutionary Anthropology

Baby talk – a human superpower?

Humans from different cultures use a form of child-directed speech. However, it appears that this characteristic is far from prevalent in non-human great apes.

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24.06.2025 Cancer Research

A High-Resolution View of Cancer Cells

Today’s most advanced instruments can peer deep into living cells, helping researchers study diseases such as cancer and improve therapies.

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20.06.2025 Mathematical talent

“I’ve spent half my life at UZH”

Twenty-one-year-old Maximilian Janisch defended his PhD thesis today. In this interview, the mathematician reflects on his time at UZH and shares his plans for the future.

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19.06.2025 Translational psychiatric research

“ADHD is complex. There are no black and white answers.”

Molecular neuroscientist Edna Grünblatt uses stem cells from individuals with ADHD to investigate how certain neurons in the brain develop and how medication works.

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19.06.2025 ERC Advanced Grant

The Downside of Part-Time Work

With her ERC Advanced Grant the UZH labor geographer Karin Schwiter plans to study the problem of underemployment in Switzerland, the UK and the Netherlands.

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18.06.2025 Remote Sensing

Research Begins on Landslide in Blatten

A few days after the landslide in the Lötschental valley, remote sensing specialists from the University of Zurich (UZH) measured the debris cone from above.

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