Did the Addams Family stop by ETH Zurich? A severed hand crawls over a piano, scurries along the corridors and gets up to mischief in a cupboard. But there’s nothing supernatural about it – it’s all robotics. The video shows what this unusual robotic hand can do, why researchers find it fascinating and what it’s doing at Halloween.
With nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, materials can be analysed to an atomic degree of precision. ETH Zurich is home to one of the most powerful NMR spectrometers in the world – and many of its research groups have now embraced this technology.
Many biological molecules are short-lived and ephemeral. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an archive function that allows them to look into a cell’s past for the first time. This could allow scientists to get to the bottom of how cancer cells form.
