Tag: ETHZ

Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: February 2024 Edition – CODATA, The Committee on Data for Science and Technology

Big Data February 1, 2024

Climate change and atmospheric dynamics unveil future weather extremesFrom late June to mid-July of 2021, the Pacific Northwest was scorched under an unprecedented heat...

AI models may not yet be safe but at least we can make them affordable, ish

AI April 28, 2023

Unprecedented heat extremes ‘could occur in any region globally’

Carbon April 25, 2023

New photon detector accelerates quantum key distribution

Quantum April 14, 2023

Shape memory for nano-sized objects

Nano TechnologyMarch 11, 2023

Shape memory for nano-sized objects by Staff Writers Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 13, 2023 Alloys that can return to their original structure...

Study: Heat Pumps 2–3× Cheaper Than Green Hydrogen In Europe

CleantechMarch 2, 2023

Green hydrogen gets a lot of hype, and heat pumps get a lot of hype. Who wins when they go head to head? Oh,...

Heat pumps ‘up to three times cheaper’ than green hydrogen in Europe, study finds

CarbonFebruary 23, 2023

“Green” hydrogen, made by splitting water with low-carbon electricity, is unlikely to emerge as a cheap replacement for gas boilers in homes across Europe,...

Does agricultural erosion create a carbon sink or source?

CleantechFebruary 21, 2023

A new study claims to settle a long-standing debate Over the last decade, researchers have sounded the alarm on soil erosion being the biggest...

Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs

QuantumJanuary 18, 2023

IntroductionIn algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph —...

Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence

QuantumDecember 1, 2022

IntroductionRecently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era...