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…
15.01.2020 Reducing the risk of blood clots in artificial heart valves People with mechanical heart valves need blood thinners on a daily basis, because they have a higher risk of blood clots…
15.01.2020 Treasures found under pressure Some materials with useful properties only form at extreme conditions, like very high temperature and pressure. However,…
07.01.2020 Computationally designed materials for carbon capture An international team of chemical engineers conducted computational investigations and found materials that can capture…
05.12.2019 Winner of the 2019 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award A team of ETH Zurich and CSCS receives the 2019 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award. This was announced at the 72th…
26.11.2019 How the immune system gets on the wrong track With the help of simulations on the supercomputer "Piz Daint", an international research team has succeeded in making…
21.11.2019 Gordon Bell Prize awarded to two research groups at ETH Zurich The prestigious Gordon Bell Prize by the Association for Computing Machinery at Supercomputing ‘19 (SC19) goes to two…
15.11.2019 New matrix multiplication algorithm pushes the performance to the limits With a rapid increase of simulation resolution and precision in fields like quantum chemistry, solid state physics,…
11.11.2019 Towards unveiling the origin of our galaxy Up to this day, cosmic particles tell the story of the universe and how it came into existence. Now, a research group at…
15.10.2019 Tracing the dynamics of turbulent currents Mathematically precise description and prediction of turbulent flow remains an unsolved problem in physics and…
18.09.2019 A "simulation booster" for nanoelectronics Two research groups from ETH Zurich have developed a method that can simulate nanoelectronics devices and their…
