30.09.2011 CH2011 – climate development in Switzerland Climate scientist Christoph Schär provides information about the current climate scenarios in Switzerland. They were…
20.09.2011 How diamonds emerge from graphite Scientists have used a new method to precisely simulate the phase transition from graphite to diamond for the first…
13.06.2011 First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way…
01.06.2011 Will Quantum Knowledge Cool Supercomputers? Whether data is processed or deleted in computers, both consume energy. The energy is released as heat. A study has now…
08.12.2010 Bacteria with “force sensors” If connective tissue fibres are under tension, bacteria do not bind to them so well. However, if the fibres are severed…
07.10.2010 Car Parrinello 25 years ago two budding scientists, Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello, used their expert knowledge, coupled with…
02.09.2010 Interdisciplinary look inside the Earth’s interior The Swiss platform for High-Performance and High-Productivity Computing (HP2C) is the world’s first and only project…
