Glacier monitoring in the time of COVID-19
Even during lockdown, WSL glaciologist Matthias Huss had to measure glaciers – without using cable cars. ...
From Fez to Zurich: Distance between bodies, closeness between hearts (part 2)
Part two of Mohammed Lghmour's story. ...
From Fez to Zurich: Distance between bodies, closeness between hearts (part 1)
Paradise is other people; this is what the little Covid-19 virus has shown us. This is a story like no other; it’s a story of solidarity in times of coronavirus. ...
“We were stuck”
During the lockdown Antoinette van der Merwe was stuck in South Africa. She started a research project to find out how poor families are coping with the current corona cr...
Mensch, Katzen und Lockdown
Eine togETHer Story:
Der Lockdown aus der Katzen-Perspektive. Was macht der Mensch bloss die ganze Zeit zu Hause? ...
Landscape Art meets Robotics Science
A couple of ETH Zurich robotics researchers fused their research with the landscape of the Swiss Alps as part of the ETH Science Weekend at the biennal Art Safiental. ...
Addressing Africa’s challenges with mathematical science
After a long stay with intensive studies in Zurich I felt a strong need for visiting new places, meeting new people, and getting new inputs – just what AIMS had to offe...
Snapshots of circuit breaker
Follow Geraldine Ee through an empty Singapore during the Lockdown period in April. ...
Installing Breaks on Ghana’s PET Race Car
In some parts of the world, discarded plastic bottles accumulate, as unstoppable as a race car at full throttle. You may place your bets on PET to fight this problem...
C is for Covid and Connection
The word "pandemic" draws out negative associations. But in fact, we are resetting - connecting and reconnecting in ways we would not have imagined pre-COVID-19. ...
A lifetime chance internship during the corona virus pandemic
From the Brazilian rainforest to the United Nations in Switzerland – but wait, there is a global pandemic in the way? ...
On sabbatical in Singapore during the pandemic
Going on sabbatical leave during a pandemic is not something one plans for. Alexia Berchtold was grateful that this is how things turned out in her case....