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| All that's left behind |
Wastewater-based epidemiology can provide valuable insights into a population's overall health. By analysing samples gleaned from wastewater, Eawag is helping medical experts shed new light on the prevalence of coronavirus infections during the pandemic. But the possibilities don't end there.
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| From clouds to fjords, the Arctic bears witness to climate change |
Climate change is particularly intense in the Arctic. To assess its consequences and determine what role this region plays in global warming, two teams of scientists from EPFL have visited the area. One to gain a better understanding of the region's air composition, the other to quantify the greenhouse gases sequestered in Greenland fjords sourced by glacial water.
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Blue-green biodiversity: recognise, conserve, promote
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Biodiversity is not a political programme: only just 1.6 % of all documents searched at federal level make reference to the term. This is one of the many results that the WSL and Eawag institutes have compiled in the joint research initiative ‘Blue-Green Biodiversity’.
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Operating from 9,300km away
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Researchers at ETH Zurich and The Chinese University of Hong Kong have succeeded for the first time in using remote control to perform a magnetic endoscopy on a live pig. The researchers controlled the probe from Zurich while the animal was on the operating table in Hong Kong.
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