12.04.2017 A lifelong fascination with planets Watching Star Trek as a child first inspired Judit Szulágyi’s fascination with planets and galaxies. Today Forbes ranks…
10.01.2017 High resolution propagation of seismic waves in space and time Researchers have developed a new algorithm for representing wave propagation in a medium. The parallel algorithm running…
07.11.2016 Earth's magnetic field under the "simulation magnifying glass" Earth’s magnetic field has reversed direction hundreds of times in the course of our planet’s history. But the cause of…
27.10.2016 How planets like Jupiter form Young giant planets are born from gas and dust. Researchers at ETH Zürich and the Universities of Zürich and Bern…
27.07.2016 The spleen and its effect on red blood cells The size and shape of red blood cells could be determined by the spleen, or so it would seem from simulations on ‘Piz…
04.07.2016 Can cirrus cloud seeding help to “save” the climate? Researchers at ETH Zurich used ‘Piz Daint’ to simulate how cirrus cloud seeding, a novel geoengineering method, might…
24.06.2016 Supercomputers on the trail of dark matter Particle physicists using the CSCS supercomputer ‘Piz Daint’ have determined what is known as the scalar quark content…
31.05.2016 Simulating chemical evolution with "Piz Daint" Scientists have used ‘Piz Daint’ to simulate crucial steps in the formation of ammonia as a prebiotic molecule. Ammonia…
09.03.2016 Atomic Vibrations in Nanomaterials Researchers at ETH have shown for the first time what happens to atomic vibrations when materials are nanosized and how…
08.03.2016 More realistic simulation of the evolution of cosmic structures Cosmologists at the University of Geneva are the first to simulate the structure of the universe in a way that…
01.02.2016 Switching light with a single silver atom Researchers working under Juerg Leuthold, Professor of Photonics and Communications at ETH Zurich, have created the…
19.01.2016 Where the Earth is humming and whistling The Earth is constantly in motion, like a vibrating bell. Natural forces are the origin of these vibrations, which are…
16.12.2015 Searching for materials with a supercomputer Supercomputers allow researchers to discover previously unknown materials and to predict their properties based on…
26.11.2015 Surprising discovery of new particle Studying peculiar properties of a long known metallic material researchers have chanced upon a new particle. It is…
25.11.2015 Aneesur Rahman Prize for ETH-Zurich professor Matthias Troyer Matthias Troyer, a professor of computational physics at ETH Zurich, has received the Aneesur Rahman Prize 2016 for…
