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Living Lab HIL: Website for the real-world laboratory is now online
Renovation is required for the HIL building on the Hönggerberg campus. Prior to this, ETH students and researchers are exploring new approaches to sustainable and circular construction within the Living Lab HIL. A new website provides insight into this initiative.
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience at the Global Young Scientists Summit
In his own words, Lucas Gobatti, a doctoral student in Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich and Eawag, shares his deeply inspiring experience of attending the Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore. From meeting Nobel laureates to a Night Safari, he reflects on what made it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
ES&T Letters Best Review Article Award
The paper "LitChemPlast: An Open Database of Chemicals
Measured in Plastics" by Helene Wiesinger and co-authors received the ES&T
Letters Best Review Article Award. Their study presents the LitChemPlast
database, providing empirical evidence for over 3,500 chemicals found in
plastics from a variety of sectors and waste streams, drawn from 372 studies. It can support exposure assessments, chemical prioritization and
substance flow analysis. Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00355
ETH Zurich ranked 4th worldwide in Civil & Structural Engineering
The Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich remains among the top institutions worldwide: in the latest QS World University Rankings 2026, it is ranked fourth in Civil & Structural Engineering, following several years of steady progress in the field.
Why averages fail for bacteria in the open ocean
How can bacteria that forage on organic particles survive in vast ocean regions where such particles are extremely sparse? A new study by researchers from ETH Zurich and Queen Mary University of London shows that variability at the level of individual bacteria plays a central role. Using a probabilistic population model linking mathematics and microbiology, the team demonstrates that rare, high-impact encounters sustain bacterial populations even when average conditions suggest decline.