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...
25.03.2013 Perché senza Grid-Computing non si sarebbe trovata la nuova particella al CERN Il 22 Marzo la penultima conferenza scientifica di un ciclo organizzato dal CSCS allo scopo di far conoscere al grande...
03.01.2013 Big Bang under the microscope Scientists have replaced the telescope by the microscope: Using the similarities between the structure of a crystal and...
18.12.2012 Searching for defects in space Topological defects in space may have developed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Simulations of these wormlike...
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...
