How to survive an extraterrestrial journey
ETH researcher Grace Crain thinks on a galactic scale. She is hoping to develop an ecosystem that could provide food, drinking water and clean air to astronauts on a space station or to the inhabitants of a Moon or Mars base. In this ETH podcast, she explains why she chooses to use human urine and faeces to fertilise her plants.
Erschienen: 19.06.2019
Dauer: 00:15:22
Which is fairer – human or machine?
Computer scientist Hoda Heidari and Elliott Ash, Professor for Law, Economics, and Data Science, talk about the huge digital footprint that we leave behind us on a daily basis. They also discuss how big data is changing the world and our perceptions, why governments are still lagging behind this transformation and how algorithms can learn and become fairer in the process.
Erschienen: 23.05.2019
Dauer: 00:27:09
How to mediate conflicts
Many small, local steps may lead more effectively to peace than big dreams of a perfect state. This principle lies at the heart of an innovative approach to conflict mediation developed by the late Kenyan mediator Dekha Ibrahim Abdi and ETH peace researcher Simon Mason. In this podcast, Simon Mason and Kaltuma Hassan Noorow, the mediator’s daughter, talk about their experiences in Kenya and Switzerland. They also refer to their unconditional will to work – and live – for global peace, not for hatred.
Erschienen: 25.04.2019
Dauer: 00:14:05
Why ETH Zurich, and not another university?
Julia Wysling, a 28-year-old mathematics graduate and former VSETH President, and Richard Ernst, the 85-year-old Nobel laureate in chemistry, talk about their alma mater, their experiences abroad – plus the challenges they faced when returning to Swit
Erschienen: 15.03.2019
Dauer: 00:18:50
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A New Challenge in Research Ethics?
Last November, news from China shook the research community. Scientist, He Jiankui claimed he had edited the genomes of twin girls with the CRISPR/Cas technology. Effy Vayena, Professor of Bioethics at ETH Zurich, and Hantao Zhao, a Chinese PhD student
Erschienen: 28.02.2019
Dauer: 00:33:55
Robot dog seeks master
The ETH spin-off ANYbotics offers a very special product: a dog-like robot that goes by the name of ANYmal. ANYmal is already a star on YouTube and he even appeared in the sci-fi series "The X-Files". But movie star isn’t the main role he’s supposed
Erschienen: 17.01.2019
Dauer: 00:18:56
Start-up challenges
Haelixa is a young ETH spin-off that aims to commercialise robust DNA-based tracers for tracking fluids and solids. Currently, Haelixa occupies offices and laboratories in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab (ieLab) at ETH Zurich. The ieLab acts as an
Erschienen: 03.01.2019
Dauer: 00:17:37
Think inside the box
Would you be willing to spend four days and nights developing a project with strangers? And what about doing it in public in a glass box? The InCube Challenge organised by the ETH Entrepreneur Club, a student-run non-profit organisation, requires partic
Erschienen: 20.12.2018
Dauer: 00:19:15
Revolutionising transport
In the first episode of the new ETH podcast, we travel to Los Angeles with the students from Swissloop to the third Hyperloop Pod Competition. SpaceX founder Elon Musk is using the competition to advance his Hyperloop vision: that one day capsules will
Erschienen: 06.12.2018
Dauer: 00:17:43
Launch on 6 December 2018
On Thursday, 6 December 2018, we will start with our new podcast. The first four episodes deal with different aspects of entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich. We'll get to know the students of the Swissloop project who take part in Elon Musk's Hyperloop compe
Erschienen: 29.11.2018
Dauer: 00:01:52
