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14.12.2023 Neuropsychology

Physical and Social Activities Promote Healthy Brain Aging

Physical and social activities in old age have a protective effect on the entorhinal cortex. This important area of the brain, which plays a central role in memory, is impaired in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, even in the early stages.

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30.11.2023 Plant Biology

Inoculation Against Diseased Fields

A Swiss research team has now shown that inoculating the soil with mycorrhizal fungi can help maintain or even improve yields without the use of additional fertilizers or pesticides. In a large-scale field trial, harvests increased by up to 40 percent.

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28.11.2023 Paleontology

Protection of Highly Threatened Sharks and Rays Inadequate

Research into elasmobranch functional diversity has revealed previously overlooked, critical conservation priorities, underscoring the urgent need for targeted action to safeguard the threatened species.

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21.11.2023 Exhibition

Cross-Stitch Technique or Childhood Memory?

Elaborately embroidered textiles from the Negev desert are on display at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich from the end of November.

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16.11.2023 Media Transformation

Internet Use as Everyday Religion on the Rise, Cyborgization Still in its Early Stages

Artificial intelligence has already arrived, cyborg technologies for self-optimization have not yet. Especially among younger people, internet use is becoming an everyday digital religion. These are results of a representative survey of Swiss internet users conducted by UZH.

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08.11.2023 Sociology

How Often Intra-European Migrants Send Money Back Home

How often do European migrants in Switzerland transfer money to their home countries, and how much money do they send? People from Portugal tend to send smaller amounts more often, while people from the UK are more likely to send larger amounts but do so less frequently.

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30.10.2023 Media research

Swiss Public Critical of AI in Journalism

People in Switzerland generally have a critical attitude toward the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of news coverage. There is currently little appetite to consume and pay for AI-produced news.

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24.10.2023 Ophtalmologie

Gentherapie: Wirksamer Transport grosser Gene

One problem in gene therapy is that not all genes transfer equally well into the target cells. UZH researchers have now developed a flexible method to transfer large genes efficiently and without significant side effects.

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02.10.2023 Evolutionary Biology

Genetics of Attraction: Mate Choice in Fruit Flies

Genetic quality or genetic compatibility? What do female fruit flies prioritize when mating? UZH researchers show that both factors are important at different stages of the reproductive process and that females use targeted strategies to optimize the fitness of their offspring.

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25.09.2023 Media Research

News Coverage in Major Media Outlets Is Politically Balanced

A new study by the fög shows that news coverage in the major media outlets in particular is diverse and politically balanced. While proposals from governmental authorities are more likely to be covered positively, popular initiatives are given more overall attention.

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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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15.09.2023 Academic Year 2023

More Master’s Students at UZH

A total of around 27,700 people will return to or begin studying at the University of Zurich next week. Of those, 3,500 are just starting out on their university careers at the Bachelor’s level.

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12.09.2023 History

Wide-Ranging Cases of Sexual Abuse in Swiss Catholic Church

An independent team of historians was given unprecedented access to archives of the Swiss Catholic Church to investigate cases of sexual abuse within the church. The UZH researchers have now documented 1,002 cases of sexual abuse committed by Catholic clerics, church staff and members of Catholic orders that have occurred in Switzerland since the mid-20th century.

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04.09.2023 Scientifica 2023

Science Draws in the Crowds

20,000 to 30,000 visitors experienced science up close this weekend at Scientifica, Switzerland’s largest science festival. Some 1,000 researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich were on site to present their work.

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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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27.07.2023 Sociology

Many people feel their jobs are pointless

A sociological study confirms that employees in financial, sales and management occupations are more likely to conclude that their jobs are of little use to society.

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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 Sports

Women’s Soccer Rated as Highly as Men’s

The quality of women’s vs. men’s soccer has been the subject of heated debates. Research conducted at UZH has now settled the score – with some interesting findings.

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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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11.07.2023 Exhibition

Who Sees What? Ritual Costumes from Sri Lanka, a Reflection on Encounters

The Ethnographic Museum showcases newly acquired masks, costumes and ritual objects from Sri Lanka with the aim to foster dialogue – and critically reflect on its own history.

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10.07.2023 Behaviour

Criticism with care is more persuasive

When unethical behavior is criticized, demands are often met with defensiveness and denial. New research shows that concern for their welfare makes people more open to criticism.

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28.06.2023 AI language models

GPT-3 Informs and Disinforms Us Better

AI language model produces accurate tweets that are easier to understand, but also tweets containing disinformation that are harder to detect, according to a UZH study.

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26.06.2023 Dental Medicine

How the Evolution of Tooth Enamel Tissue Unfolded

Researchers at the UZH Center for Dental Medicine show that mutations in the Notch pathway can lead to defective structures in tooth enamel.

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14.06.2023 Soil Science

Climate Change Releases Carbon Stocks Deep Underground

Global warming is accelerating the decomposition of soil humus. It is also affecting the waxy and woody compounds – previously thought to be stable – which help plants store carbon in their leaves and roots.

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12.06.2023 Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Climate Change: Rising Rainfall, not Temperatures, Threaten Giraffe Survival

Giraffes in the East African savannahs are adapting surprisingly well to the rising temperatures caused by climate change. However, they are threatened by increasingly heavy rainfall.

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06.06.2023

Tracing Chile’s Indigenous Roots Through Genetics and Linguistics

Researchers have reconstructed the legacy of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous community, in a quest to strengthen their representation in the history of the continent.

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01.06.2023 Chemie

New Class of Antibiotics to Fight Resistant Bacteria

Researchers have modified the chemical structure of naturally occurring peptides to develop antimicrobial molecules that bind to novel targets in the bacteria’s metabolism.

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17.05.2023

Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO

The Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives in Zurich have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. The University of Zurich will be working with both institutions to promote the academic study of the collections.

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04.05.2023 Evolution of Language

Chimpanzees Combine Calls to Communicate New Meaning

Similar to humans, chimpanzees combine vocalizations into larger communicatively meaningful structures. UZH researchers suggest that this ability might be evolutionarily more ancient than previously thought.

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27.04.2023 Physiology

Main Suppliers of Epo in the Human Body Identified

We know Erythropoietin, or Epo for short, from doping cases. But the body also produces this vital hormone. Now, scientists have been able to identify the main producer of Epo, laying the foundation for the development of new therapies.

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26.04.2023 Sociology

Misconceptions Put Women Off STEM Subjects

Young women seem to be less drawn to degrees in science or technology. But what is putting them off? A sociological study at UZH has revealed that outdated gender stereotypes – such as supposed differences in analytical thinking – play a major role.

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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

Climate Change Threatens Lemurs on Madagascar

What happens when rainy seasons becomes drier and dry seasons warmer? Research shows that climate changes destabilize mouse lemur populations and increase their risk of extinction.

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28.02.2023 Exhibition

Looted Cultural Heritage Objects from Imperial-Era China

A new exhibition at the Ethonographic Museum shines a light on objects looted during the 1900/01 Boxer Rebellion in China that eventually ended up in museums and collections across the West.

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02.02.2023 DNA Research

Artificial Intelligence Improves Efficiency of Genome Editing

Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to predict the efficacy of various genome editing repair options. Unintentional errors in the correction of DNA mutations of genetic diseases can thus be reduced.

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24.01.2023 Sociology

Men Are Leaving Feminizing Occupations

Many women and men still work in sex-typed occupations. One important reason for this is that men are selectively leaving occupations that are increasingly taken up by women, a recent study from the University of Zurich has shown.

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23.01.2023 Geography

Grassland Ecosystems Become More Resilient with Age

A long-term experiment now shows that grassland plant communities with multiple species need about 10 years to adjust to each other and produce an even amount of biomass again.

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Article list Media Releases

Physical and Social Activities Promote Healthy Brain Aging

Inoculation Against Diseased Fields

Protection of Highly Threatened Sharks and Rays Inadequate

Cross-Stitch Technique or Childhood Memory?

Internet Use as Everyday Religion on the Rise, Cyborgization Still in its Early Stages

How Often Intra-European Migrants Send Money Back Home

Swiss Public Critical of AI in Journalism

Gentherapie: Wirksamer Transport grosser Gene

Genetics of Attraction: Mate Choice in Fruit Flies

News Coverage in Major Media Outlets Is Politically Balanced

AI Increases Precision in Plant Observation

More Master’s Students at UZH

Wide-Ranging Cases of Sexual Abuse in Swiss Catholic Church

Science Draws in the Crowds

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

Many people feel their jobs are pointless

AI Brings Hope for Patients with Lyosomal Storage Disease

Women’s Soccer Rated as Highly as Men’s

New Superconductors Can Be Built Atom by Atom

Who Sees What? Ritual Costumes from Sri Lanka, a Reflection on Encounters

Criticism with care is more persuasive

GPT-3 Informs and Disinforms Us Better

How the Evolution of Tooth Enamel Tissue Unfolded

Climate Change Releases Carbon Stocks Deep Underground

Climate Change: Rising Rainfall, not Temperatures, Threaten Giraffe Survival

Tracing Chile’s Indigenous Roots Through Genetics and Linguistics

New Class of Antibiotics to Fight Resistant Bacteria

Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO

Chimpanzees Combine Calls to Communicate New Meaning

Main Suppliers of Epo in the Human Body Identified

Misconceptions Put Women Off STEM Subjects

Scallop Eyes as Inspiration for New Microscope Pbjectives

Climate Change Threatens Lemurs on Madagascar

Looted Cultural Heritage Objects from Imperial-Era China

Artificial Intelligence Improves Efficiency of Genome Editing

Men Are Leaving Feminizing Occupations

Grassland Ecosystems Become More Resilient with Age

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