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The physicist Michele Vallisneri is talking about his recent move to ETH Zurich, his research plans and the profound impact of the first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.

In the search for exoplanet life, could finding nothing at all still mean something? Physicist, Daniel Angerhausen, ETH Zurich's Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, led a team of researchers in a study to find out what humanity could learn about the universe - even if no signs of life on other planets is detected.

The group of Professor Alexandre Refregier uses the data collected by ambitious surveys to work out the nature of dark matter, dark energy and our expanding universe.

METIS is the first instrument of the Extremely Large Telescope to pass its final design review.

Researchers measured with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope ammonia in the atmosphere of a cold brown dwarf, showing that the isotopic abundance of ammonia can be used to study how giant gas planets form.  

For thousands of years, humanity and science have contemplated the origins of life in the Universe. Humanity still has a long way to go before we fully understand the fundamental aspects of what life is and how it forms.