01.07.2020 HPC simulations could guide Swiss toward safer geothermal energy Researchers from the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) and ETH Zurich are working with the Swiss National Supercomputing…
29.06.2020 A new theory for Semiconductors made of nanocrystals Researchers at ETH have provided the first theoretical explanation for how electrical current is conducted in…
26.06.2020 "Simulation microscope" examines transistors of the future Since the discovery of graphene, two-dimensional materials have been the focus of materials research. Among other…
15.06.2020 Designing vaccines from artificial proteins EPFL scientists have developed a new computational approach to create artificial proteins, which showed promising…
11.05.2020 “In these days, there is a necessity for us to make results available very quickly, even before publication” CSCS supports special national and international calls to study COVID-19 by participating in the SNF (Swiss National…
30.04.2020 How to look for hidden drug binding pockets Cryptic pockets are hidden and appear only when a ligand molecule is actually bound. Now researchers have developed a…
22.04.2020 Predictions and research with supercomputers: Also useful for farmers and mountain guides This video on weather forecasting gives an insight into the work and motivation of CSCS, which operates powerful…
07.04.2020 Simultaneous simulation of gravitation and magnetism of a protoplanetary disk Researchers from the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge have succeeded for the first time in creating a single…
25.03.2020 Understanding COVID-19 and mitigating the pandemic CSCS supports special national and international calls to study COVID-19. Together with its team and the supercomputer…
15.03.2020 COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on CSCS Operations CSCS has further expanded the measures it has already put in place for all staff members in the effort to slow the…
09.03.2020 Simulations shed light on performance of perovskite solar cells Perovskite materials stand out as a promising alternative for today’s silicon-based solar cells, since they are…
03.03.2020 CO2 tracking in space CO2 concentrations in the air continue to rise rapidly, and a rapid reduction in man-made emissions is becoming…
02.03.2020 The seismicity of Mars Fifteen months after the successful landing of the NASA InSight mission on Mars, first scientific analyses of ETH Zurich…
06.02.2020 Quantum fluctuations stabilize high-temperature superconductors Supercomputers are indispensable in the research of superconductors, materials in which electricity flows without loss.…
05.02.2020 Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different The two outermost giant planets of the solar system have similar masses, but also have striking differences. Researchers…
