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A group of scientists is creating a digital twin of our planet to simulate the Earth system in future. Professor Torsten Hoefler from the Institute for High Performance Computing Systems is one of the researchers showing how this can be achieved.

In the third episode of the uncertainty series of the ETH podcast, senior lecturer Myriam Dunn Cavelty and D-INFK student Karin Holzhauser talk about cybersecurity and its role in computer science.

After finding a vulnerability in certain credit cards for the first time last year, three researchers in the Information Security Group at ETH Zurich were now able to outsmart the PIN codes for other payment cards, namely Mastercard and Maestro.

Gifted children are often not challenged enough at school. As a result, their motivation and love of learning suffer. The Centre for Gifted Education at the Department of Computer Science aims to counteract this with extracurricular courses.

Together with Selina Stoffel, a student at the PH Graubünden, ETH student Fabrizio Reich trains young minds to succeed in robotics competitions in the First Lego League FLL.