20.11.2012 CSE Lab wins the Milton Van Dyck Award: the Gallery of Fluid Motion 2012 The Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory (CSE Lab) of ETH Zurich lead by Professor Petros Koumoutsakos wins…
12.11.2012 A supercomputer to understand the failing heart In certain heart diseases, the left ventricle does not contract simultaneously. Usually, a pacemaker can come to the…
26.09.2012 Under the sign of cosmic strings The two-day User Day held from 20 – 21 September 2012 offered users an opportunity to exchange ideas intensively on…
13.06.2012 Materials research meets cosmology This year’s Max Rössler Prize goes to Nicola Spaldin, a professor of materials theory in the Department of Materials at…
02.05.2012 Escape response of small fish tested using a supercomputer Small fish bend themselves into a ‘C’ shape before they flee from predators. Observations have suggested that this shape…
02.04.2012 Solving the Mystery of Neanderthal Man in the Supercomputer Around 15,000 years after modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to Europe, Homo neanderthalensis disappeared for good. Now…
23.02.2012 Plate tectonics modelled realistically ETH Zurich scientists have for the first time succeeded in realistically simulating how an oceanic plate sinks of its…
12.01.2012 Eliminating errors in quantum computing Quantum computers, should they be realized one day, will inevitably make errors. Therefore, they need special error…
20.10.2011 CP2K – a computer program for the future Finding and accessing alternative energy sources is the goal of many scientists worldwide. Simulations on…
30.09.2011 CH2011 – climate development in Switzerland Climate scientist Christoph Schär provides information about the current climate scenarios in Switzerland. They were…
20.09.2011 How diamonds emerge from graphite Scientists have used a new method to precisely simulate the phase transition from graphite to diamond for the first…
13.06.2011 First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way…
01.06.2011 Will Quantum Knowledge Cool Supercomputers? Whether data is processed or deleted in computers, both consume energy. The energy is released as heat. A study has now…
08.12.2010 Bacteria with “force sensors” If connective tissue fibres are under tension, bacteria do not bind to them so well. However, if the fibres are severed…
07.10.2010 Car Parrinello 25 years ago two budding scientists, Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello, used their expert knowledge, coupled with…
