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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
23.03.2015 Improving the theory of phase transitions with supercomputers Supercomputers help researchers where experimentation and observation reach their limits. Physicists Jürg Diemand and...
19.11.2014 Bits and bytes in pictures Scientists are using Piz Daint’s graphics processors to simulate the Milky Way at an unprecedented resolution and...
16.10.2014 Supercomputer "feels" magnetic fields in the cosmos The supercomputer Piz Daint has enabled researchers to perform high-resolution simulations of cosmic magnetic fields and...
29.07.2014 Researching how stars explode Supernovae are exploding stars. The light from the explosion and its remnants enable numerous conclusions to be drawn...
24.03.2014 "One of the most important physics discoveries of this decade" Martin Kunz, a professor in the Cosmology Group at the University of Geneva would like to prove the existence of defects...
13.09.2013 Stelle, galassie e bytes: supercalcolatori come laboratori virtuali per l’astrofisica Il 10 settembre 2013, il CSCS ha collaborato all'organizzazione della conferenza aperta al pubblico su "Stelle, galassie...
