22.10.2025 How a comprehensive brain atlas helped partially paralyzed patients regain the ability to walk Scientists from EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) have helped restore walking ability in patients with spinal…
14.10.2025 ETH Zürich team simulates a full nanoribbon transistor and earns a Gordon Bell Prize nomination For the first time, researchers at ETH Zürich have simulated a silicon nanoribbon transistor comprising 42,000 atoms and…
08.10.2025 Largest-Ever Cosmological Simulation When the European Space Agency’s Euclid Consortium unveiled the Flagship 2 galaxy mock—the largest synthetic simulation…
29.09.2025 Global climate simulations achieve 1.25 km resolution—team nominated for Climate Gordon Bell Prize For the first time, scientists have run global coupled climate simulations at a resolution of just 1.25 kilometres.…
14.09.2025 Towards a more sustainable AI Revolution: “The research for efficient AI is essential” Large AI models and the data centres that power them consume a lot of energy, as several media articles pointed out…
02.09.2025 Apertus: A fully open, transparent, multilingual language model EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a…
28.08.2025 “Alps” as a Customized Infrastructure: CSCS and PSI Launch Remote Setup For the first time, PSI’s advanced research facilities and particle accelerators will rely on a remote computing setup…
01.08.2025 “We need to invest in community codes and raise awareness for sustainability” At PASC25, Elisa Molinari highlighted how working on community materials science codes can lead to big gains—in both…
31.07.2025 A fully liquid Earth’s core also generates a magnetic field For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated…
09.07.2025 A language model built for the public good ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the "Alps"…
03.07.2025 PASC25: Computing a more sustainable future What does sustainability mean in the age of AI and growing data centres? At the PASC25 Conference in Switzerland, over…
16.06.2025 ETH Zürich students gain AI skills using the “Alps” supercomputer A recent course offering at ETH Zürich entitled “Large-Scale AI Engineering” helps students hone necessary skills for…
27.05.2025 Scientists explore the dynamic nature of dark energy Invisible but influential, dark energy shapes the universe and its expansion, yet its nature remains unclear. A group at…
19.05.2025 Why autonomous mobility needs to learn to wonder about the world Autonomous Mobility already exists… to some extent. Building an autonomous vehicle that can safely navigate an empty…
26.03.2025 Torsten Hoefler Wins the ACM Prize in Computing — Honouring a Pioneer and a Milestone for Swiss Computing Torsten Hoefler, Professor at ETH Zürich and Chief Architect for AI and Machine Learning at CSCS, wins the ACM Prize in…