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NOMIS researcher and Salk Institute Professor Janelle Ayres has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology’s Fellowship Class of 2024. Fellows of the Academy, an honorific leadership group within […]

Sean Jordan is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He is conducting his research under the mentorship of Sascha Quanz […]

Taylor Priest is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He is conducting his research under the mentorship of Shinichi Sunagawa […]

David Schnettler is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He is conducting his research under the mentorship of Sven Panke […]

ETH Zurich has announced the three postdoctoral fellows who will join the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL) at ETH as part of the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program. David […]

The NOMIS Foundation and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have opened a new call for proposals for the NOMIS–ISTA Fellowship Program, an interdisciplinary basic research program for […]

What can we learn from art and architecture? How do buildings and artworks relate to and create connections with their surroundings? Sites are seen as intersecting and overlapping zones of […]

Susanne Hauser is professor of art history and cultural studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany). She is co-leading the Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the […]

Stefan Neuner is professor of art history and theory at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany). He is co-leading the Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the 21st […]

Sebastian Egenhofer is professor of art history at the University of Vienna (Austria). He is co-leading the Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the 21st Century project. After studying […]

Most cryospheric ecosystems are energy limited. How their energetics will respond to climate change remains largely unknown. This is particularly true for glacier-fed streams, which interface with the cryosphere and […]

Glacier-fed streams are undergoing a process of profound change, according to NOMIS researcher Tom Battin and other EPFL scientists in a paper appearing in Nature Geoscience. This conclusion is based […]

Ramie Targoff is the Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities, professor of English, and co-chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, US). She is co-leading the project Petrarch […]

Judith Frömmer is professor of Italian and French literature and media studies at the University of Vienna (Austria). She is co-leading the project Petrarch in Global Translation: A Genealogy of […]

It might be that what set prebiotic chemistry in motion and kept it going in the early days of the Earth was dust from outer space accumulating in holes melted […]

How did cooperative behavior prevail in human evolution? NOMIS Board Member Ernst Fehr, together with other researchers from the Universities of Zurich, Lausanne and Konstanz, have challenged two prevailing explanations – […]

Francesco Petrarca’s Canzoniere, a collection of 366 poems written in 14th century Italy, is arguably the most influential book of love poetry ever written. Known as the “Father of Humanism,” […]

Repeated interactions provide an evolutionary explanation for one-shot human cooperation that is counterintuitive but orthodox1,2,3. Intergroup competition4,5,6,7 provides an explanation that is intuitive but heterodox. Here, using models and a behavioural […]

Earth’s surface is deficient in available forms of many elements considered limiting for prebiotic chemistry. In contrast, many extraterrestrial rocky objects are rich in these same elements. Limiting prebiotic ingredients […]

NOMIS Center Director Susan Kaech and NOMIS Fellow Anna-Maria Globig, together with fellow scientists at the Salk Instistute, have discovered that lung adenocarcinoma cancer cells steer macrophage lipid metabolism to […]