Will nanotechnology soon allow you to 'swallow the doctor'? The Multi-Scale Robotics Lab from Prof. Bradley Nelson featured in CNN's segment "Make - Create - Innovate".

MANAQA project researchers have discovered that cobalt-nickel and nickel alloys produce the most effective magnetic nanowires. The MANAQA EU project, coordinated by Dr. Salvador Pané Vidal, Senior Researcher in Prof. Bradley Nelsons group, has been featured in the "Health" section of the EU Research and Innovation Magazine.

Michael Mühlebach, researcher in Prof. Raffaello D'Andreas group, presented the Cubli at Galileo on 21 January 2015.

Inspiring young women for Engineering studies! At yesterday’s Open House for Young Women, approximately 50 students from throughout Switzerland were inspired for topics in the fields of mechanical and electrical engineering. In addition to presentations about study programs, LIMES organized lab tours, allowing students to experience science first-hand.

The mechanical engineer Thomas Cooper developed for his PhD thesis a solar power system of cost-effective parabolic trough concentrators coupled to high-efficiency photovoltaic cells. He was awarded the Hans-Eggenberger-Preis 2014.

Thomas Cooper, postdoc in Prof. Aldo Steinfeld's group, received the "Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation" award in 2014 for his work "High-Concentration Solar Trough collectors and Their Application to Concentrating Photovoltaics".

Today, the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is presenting the Watt d’Or energy prize in the Energy-efficient mobility category to the team of Prof. Lino Guzzella and Prof. Christopher Onder from the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. This award is in recognition of the technology the institute has developed in collaboration with Carrosserie Hess AG.

A total of 22 new companies were founded in 2014 by researchers from ETH Zurich. These spin-offs are among the most successful in Switzerland. One of the year's highlights was Covagen, which was acquired for over CHF 200 million. The latest figures also reveal that the university is on the right track with its promotion programmes.

The Swiss Federal Council nominated Prof. Dimos Poulikakos to be a member of the Federal Energy Research Commission CORE. He assumed the position on 1 January 2015.