16.09.2019 International Team of Scientists Dissolves Mystery of Gastric Proton Pump with “Piz Daint” Gastric acid is one of the most acidic substances found in nature. However, this acid is also the first line of defense…
06.09.2019 Nicola Spaldin awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for…
22.07.2019 Oceans Apart: Interdisciplinary Dialogue at PASC19 Explores Challenges in Computational Modeling A second edition of the Interdisciplinary Dialogue took place during the PASC19 conference June 12–14 in Zurich,…
15.07.2019 Practical Science: Fusion Physicist Marina Becoulet shares insights and reflections on PASC19 The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) held its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference for scientific…
25.06.2019 PASC19: Preparing for “Exascale and Beyond” The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) held its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference in scientific…
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…
