ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 14 -- ETH Zurich issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: * * * On 16 September, ETH Zurich will welcome about 27,000 students for the Autumn Semester, according to provisional figures. The growth in student numbers continues apace. * * * This coming Monday, around 27,000 students and doctoral candidates will start the Autumn Semester at ETH Zurich. Around 47 percent of them are studying for a Bachelor's degree, 36 percent for a Master's degree and 17   more

HONG KONG, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University issued the following news release: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has teamed up with the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) at the University of Waterloo (UW), Canada's largest nanotechnology institute, to establish the Research Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (RCNN). This Centre will serve as a platform for interdisciplinary research, advancing fundamental knowledge of nanotechnology and addre  more

BAYREUTH, Germany, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: The Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. (GDCh) has awarded Dr. Anja Ramsperger from the Collaborative Research Centre 1357 Microplastics at the University of Bayreuth the Paul Crutzen Prize 2024. She received the prize in recognition of a publication on the effect of microplastics in immune cells that was part of her dissertation. The question of what effects microplastics have on our enviro  more

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Copenhagen issued the following news: Just as school kids get to test their hands at science in earnest during the sixth and seventh grades, they come face to face with entrenched teaching methods, coded language and a no-error culture. New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that students get locked into roles such as "teacher's assistants", the "noisy ones" - or the "quiet ones", who are often girls and minority students  more

KUOPIO, Finland, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Eastern Finland issued the following news: * * * A new study published in Science reveals that plant-derived secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) can act as mediators of plant-plant interactions. This research was conducted through the cooperation of chemical ecologists, plant ecophysiologists and atmospheric physicists at the University of Eastern Finland. * * * It is well known that plants release volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into t  more