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1. Veteran NASA engineer Richard Kornfeld moves to ETH Zurich

   After 25 years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Richard Kornfeld is returning to his alma mater. Starting in September, he will take over the operational management of ETH Zurich Space, bringing extensive experience of space missions to his new role.

2. How cancer puts other cells to work

   Cancer cells provide healthy neighbouring cells with additional cell powerhouses to put them to work. This has been demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich in a new study. In this way, cancer is exploiting a mechanism that frequently serves to repair damaged cells.

3. "We need to develop approaches and solutions that enable investments in resilience"

   After ten years, the Future Resilient Systems programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) is drawing to a close. In our interview, Programme Director Jonas Jörin talks about the programme's successes and the future of resilience research.

4. Rising temperatures intensify supercell thunderstorms in Europe

   In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Bern and ETH Zurich have shown how climate change is intensifying supercell thunderstorms in Europe. At a global temperature increase of 3 degrees Celsius, these powerful storms are expected to occur more frequently, especially in the Alpine region.

5. Electrons reveal their handedness in attosecond flashes

   For the first time, chemists at ETH Zurich have successfully used extremely short, rotating flashes of light to measure and manipulate the different movements of electrons in mirror-image molecules. They showed that chirality of molecules is not just a structural but also an electronic phenomenon.