15.05.2019 A refined criterion for wear particle formation Whenever surfaces in contact slide relative to each other, they wear and emit particles. In a study published in…
15.04.2019 New biologically derived metal-organic framework mimics DNA Chemical engineers at EPFL have synthesized a biologically-derived metal-organic framework on which the hydrogen bonding…
01.04.2019 “Piz Daint” takes on Tier 2 function in Worldwide LHC Computing Grid In the future, the “Piz Daint” supercomputer will handle part of the analysis of data generated by the experiments…
04.03.2019 New simulation methods to visualise quantum effects in superfluid fermions What exactly happens inside neutron stars – the final stage of a giant star – is subject to speculation. In terms of…
19.02.2019 “If users are happy, we are happy, and we can consider ourselves successful” After her Postdoc in Chemistry at ETH Zurich, Maria Grazia Giuffreda started working at CSCS in 2006 as a support…
21.01.2019 Transparent electronics research gains momentum Intensive research is being carried out on transparent electronics, a new area of study that represents the merging of…
19.11.2018 Encouraging prospects for moon hunters Astrophysicists of the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich show how the icy moons of Uranus were born. Their result…
06.11.2018 An ice age lasting 115,000 years in two minutes An international research team used a computer model to reconstruct the history of glaciation in the Alps, visualising…
06.09.2018 Supercomputer used to design nanoelectronics of the future For materials researchers, computer simulations stand alongside experiment and theory as an everyday tool in their work.…
23.08.2018 Uncovering atomic movements in crystal Scientists can spend a long time in heated debates over tiny details – for example, how and whether atoms in a crystal…
15.08.2018 “We cannot definitively say which physical processes are dominant or relevant in an earthquake.” Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, simulates earthquake…
10.07.2018 PASC18 Conference in Basel Grows in Attendance and Scope More than 400 scientists from across the globe met in Basel from July 2–4, convening for the fifth edition of the PASC…
03.07.2018 Quantum chromodynamics for everybody PASC18 conference in Basel presented an interdisciplinary dialogue between ETH professor Petros Koumoutsakos and…
06.06.2018 Swimming in schools saves energy Researchers at ETH Zurich have clarified the previously unresolved question of whether fish save energy by swimming…
25.05.2018 Simulations for InSight Mars mission On 5 May, a rocket launched the InSight lander on its journey to Mars. On board: a seismometer to investigate the…
