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From 9 to 11 May, Zurich hosted the inaugural Robotics Hackathon 2025, bringing together ambitious innovators to design and build robots. This intense and inspiring weekend was initiated and organised by three ETH Zurich students.

Hidden in the hills of Lugano, the Alps supercomputer at CSCS is one of the world’s fastest – and greenest. In this BBC News feature, Prof. Torsten Hoefler of the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich explains how Alps is revolutionising climate research and AI with cutting-edge performance and eco-friendly design.

Every tumour is unique. This makes it difficult to find the most effective therapy for treatment. Researchers in Zurich and Basel are now showing how state-of-the-art molecular biological technologies can be used to create a detailed tumour profile within four weeks, enabling tailored treatment. The study is the first of its kind in the world.

Students of the department have voted for their favourite lecturers and teaching assistants. The VIS Teaching Awards winners David Basin, Ghislain Fourny, Özlem Imamoglu and Johannes Lengler have been announced at the last Department Conference. Congratulations!

Maša Nešić and Eric Nothum, both D-INFK students at ETH Zurich, joined three fellow ETH students last September for the 3-day Bloomberg Security Challenge in New York. During the event, they engaged in discussions, coding sessions, and research focused on Text-to-SQL translation using small, open-source large language models. In the latest ETH Ambassadors blog post, they share their experiences in the Big Apple.