27.11.2017 Nano-sensor measures tension of tissue fibres Computer simulations have helped a team of researchers led by ETH professor Viola Vogel to develop a peptide that is…
21.11.2017 “The Swiss Institute of Particle Physics and CSCS are paving the way for the upcoming computational challenges” For more than ten years, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has been operating the cluster “Phoenix” for…
20.10.2017 Scientists use CSCS supercomputer to search for "memory molecules" Until now, searching for genes related to memory capacity has been comparable to seeking out the proverbial “needle in a…
09.10.2017 With help of "Piz Daint" supercomputer towards solving the proton spin puzzle Scientists in a research group led by Constantia Alexandrou, Professor of physics at the University of Cyprus and the…
03.10.2017 Simulations improve the theoretical description of experiments probing elusive properties of water Scientists from EPF Lausanne have improved the theoretical description of complex non-linear optical measurements by…
26.07.2017 “Where and how does consciousness develop (…)? That’s what I’d really like to know.” Doctor Katrin Amunts is a professor of brain research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Director of the Cécile…
19.07.2017 Scientists use "Piz Daint" simulations to track heavy summer precipitation from the Mediterranean Low-pressure weather systems that move northwards in the summer from Italy to central Europe bring with them dreaded…
20.06.2017 Simulating extreme aerodynamics Researchers at Imperial College in London have used “Piz Daint” to simulate with unprecedented accuracy the flow over an…
12.06.2017 Convection-resolving simulation over Europe When the hybrid supercomputer “Piz Daint” came online in 2014, one of the first science projects that it ran was a…
08.06.2017 Ground-breaking simulation for researching the "dark" Cosmos For the first time, scientists from the University of Zurich have succeeded in carrying out a cosmological simulation…
18.05.2017 Using sunlight to produce energy from water Photosynthesis is one of the most common and fundamental life processes on Earth, and its complex sequence of events has…
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…
