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Astronomy / Space - 22.05.2017

Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) After 60 hours of non-stop work, researchers at the University of Bern being part of an international team reached their hoped-for goal: They were the first to measure the orbital period for the outermost planet of the famous TRAPPIST-1 system which made headlines worldwide.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 18.05.2017
XENON1T: the most sensitive detector on Earth
Dark matter is one of the basic constituents of the Universe, five times more abundant than ordinary matter.
Astronomy / Space - 11.04.2017
A lifelong fascination with planets
Watching Star Trek as a child first inspired Judit Szulágyi's fascination with planets and galaxies.
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 02.03.2017

CERN's CMS experiment - one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider received a new heart today - a pixel detector much like a high-speed digital camera that snaps images up to 40 million times per second. Earlier today, physicists and engineers at CERN replaced the heart of the Compact Muon Solenoid ( CMS ) experiment, one of the two general purpose particle physics detectors that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
Astronomy / Space - 22.02.2017

An international team of astronomers has discovered a compact analogue of our inner solar system about 40 light-years away. Brice-Olivier Demory of the Center of Space and Habitability at the University of Bern, analysed the data collected with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and calculated that the newly detected exoplanets all have masses less or similar to the Earth.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 10.02.2017

For the first time, theoretical physicists from the University of Basel have calculated the signal of specific gravitational wave sources that emerged fractions of a second after the Big Bang. The source of the signal is a long-lost cosmological phenomenon called 'oscillon'. The journal Physical Review Letters has published the results.
Astronomy / Space - 26.01.2017
How fast is the universe expanding? Quasars provide an answer
The H0LiCOW collaboration, a cosmology project led by EPFL and Max Planck Institute and regrouping several research organizations in the world has made a new measurement of the Hubble constant, which indicates how fast the universe is expanding. The new measurement challenges some of the most recent ones, potentially pointing towards new physics beyond the standard cosmological model.
Astronomy / Space - Innovation - 02.12.2016
European Space Agency’s ESA successful Ministerial Council meeting in Switzerland
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Astronomy / Space - 27.10.2016
Finally red!
Empa researchers have pulled off a masterstroke of ceramics research: as of now, a dark-red ceramic bezel adorns a Swiss luxury watch - a world premiere and stunning example of top-flight materials science.
Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 24.10.2016
Swiss Researchers Fly Into Weightlessness
The dream of weightlessness came true on Saturday for two researchers from the University of Basel. During a parabolic flight, the scientists tested a newly developed measuring device under reduced gravity. The instrument analyzes the deposition of sediments and is intended to support the search for life on Mars.
Astronomy / Space - 21.10.2016
Second research flight into zero gravity
A year ago, the University of Zurich conducted its first parabolic flight for test purposes from Swiss soil. Now a second aircraft is ready for lift-off to research zero gravity: Tomorrow (Saturday), an Airbus A310 ZERO-G is set to take off from the air force base in Dübendorf equipped with scientific experiments from the Universities of Zurich, Basel, Lucerne and ETH Zurich.
Astronomy / Space - Materials Science - 30.09.2016

Rosetta's mission is over: After the last signal at 13:20, the spacecraft was crash-landed on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with the ROSINA instrument from Bern taking measurements right until the very end.
Astronomy / Space - 29.09.2016
So long and thanks for the probes
For twelve years, the space probe Rosetta served mankind. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission is now drawing to a close as the probe reaches its final resting place on the target comet Tschuri on September 30, 2016.
Astronomy / Space - Media - 27.09.2016
Rosetta, ESA’s historic mission, bids farewell after rendez-vous with comet Chury
Bern, 27. Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 30 September 2016.
Astronomy / Space - 23.09.2016
SwissCube: seven years in space and still active
23. The little Swiss satellite was launched on 23 September 2009 and continues to send back regular reports.
Astronomy / Space - Innovation - 05.09.2016
First gravitational waves form after 10 million years
This simulation shows how two galaxies merge over a period of 15 millionen years. The red and the blue dots illustrate the two black holes (image: Astrophysical Journal).
Environment - Astronomy / Space - 11.08.2016
Fewer low clouds in the tropics
With the help of satellite data, ETH scientists have shown that low-level cloud cover in the tropics thins out as the earth warms. Since this cloud cover has a cooling effect on the climate, the two-degree warming target may therefore be reached earlier than many models have predicted. It is indisputable that greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere heat up our planet.
Astronomy / Space - Materials Science - 09.08.2016

The much-travelled European research satellite Eureca was taken from the aerospace exhibition in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne and loaded onto a truck before setting off on yet another adventure.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 18.07.2016

POLAR detector developed at the PSI flies into orbit with a Chinese space mission Researchers working with Wojciech Hajdas at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a detector called POLAR. This instrument is expected to search out and investigate so-called gamma ray bursts coming from the depths of the universe.
Astronomy / Space - 01.04.2016
Lumpi makes historical trip to the 4th dimension
01. A Chihuahua has traveled across EPFL's miniature black hole and entered the fourth dimension. He's the first living organism to have accomplished this feat.
Astronomy / Space - Health - 30.03.2016

Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) Children in Switzerland and all over Europe made thousands of imaginative drawings of stars, planets, rockets, satellites, and aliens.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 25.11.2015
100 years of relativity and enthusiasm for bringing science to the pu
25. Time and space are celebrating their 100th wedding anniversary. To mark the centenary of relativity theory, Anais Rassat and her cross-Channel accomplices have put Einstein front and center in an entertaining animated film.
Astronomy / Space - Environment - 21.10.2015

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko continues to reveal more of its secrets: Researchers in Bern have detected considerable variations in the gas escaping from the comet. This could amount to seasonal changes on the tiny celestial body. Meanwhile, the camera OSIRIS on board the Rosetta comet probe is revealing new details of the surface of «Chury».
Astronomy / Space - 20.10.2015

Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko poses new riddles: Surface material measurements performed by the «Philae» landing module indicate that the near surface material might have changed since its formation. Up to now, many researchers had assumed that it has remained in virtually the same state since its formation about 4.5 billion years ago.
Astronomy / Space - 20.10.2015
How comets were assembled
Rosetta's target «Chury» and other comets observed by space missions show common evidence of layered structures and bi-lobed shapes. With 3D computer simulations Martin Jutzi, astrophysicist at the University of Bern, was able to reconstruct the formation of these features as a result of gentle collisions and mergers.
Astronomy / Space - 20.10.2015

Great honour for Nicolas Thomas from the University of Berne: The scientist was selected as part of the imaging team for NASA's Europa Clipper mission.
Astronomy / Space - Event - 31.08.2015
Lights on for Scientifica 2015
At Scientifica 2015, everything revolves around the theme of light. This weekend's event will feature 300 researchers from ETH and the University of Zurich presenting their work and explaining how they use light to observe and understand the world.
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 13.05.2015
CMS and LHCb experiments reveal new rare particle decay
Event displays of a candidate B0 s particle decaying into two muons in the CMS detector (left - Image: CMS/CERN) and in the LHCb detector (right - Image: CMS/CERN) Geneva, 13 May 2015. In an article , the CMS and LHCb collaborations describe the first observation of the very rare decay of the B0 s particle into two muon particles.
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 22.04.2015
ICARUS neutrino experiment to move to Fermilab
Geneva, 22 April 2015. A group of scientists led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia will transport the world's largest liquid-argon neutrino detector across the Atlantic Ocean from CERN to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy' 2 s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 3 . The 760-ton, 20-metre-long detector took data for the ICARUS experiment at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics 4 ' (INFN) Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy from 2010 to 2014, using a beam of neutrinos sent through the earth from CERN.
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 15.04.2015
Physics community to discuss latest results of the AMS experiment
Geneva, 15 April 2015. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS ) collaboration will present today the latest results in its quest to understand the origin of cosmic rays and dark matter. These intriguing results will be shared and discussed during the "AMS days" starting today at CERN 2 , with many of the world's leading theoretical physicists and principal investigators of some of the major experiments exploring the field of cosmic-ray physics.
Astronomy / Space - Art and Design - 16.03.2015
CineGlobe returns for its fifth edition at CERN
Life Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 03.01.2015

This year a great deal of research done at EPFL made the headlines in newspapers. Here are a few that marked the months of September to December.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 15.12.2014
Researchers detect possible signal from dark matter
EPFL scientists have picked up an atypical photon emission in X-rays coming from space, and say it could be evidence for the existence of a particle of dark matter. If confirmed, it could open up new perspectives in cosmology. Could there finally be tangible evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe? After sifting through reams of X-ray data, scientists in EPFL's Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC) and Leiden University believe they could have identified the signal of a particle of dark matter.
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 07.07.2014
Results from CERN presented at ICHEP
Geneva, 7 July 2014. Speaking at press conference held during the 37 th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, in Valencia, Spain this morning CERN Director General Rolf Heuer gave a resume of results from CERN that are being presented. The conference, which began last Thursday with three days of parallel sessions, now moves on to plenary sessions until Wednesday, summing up the current state of the art in the field.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 08.04.2014
Astral matter from the Paul Scherrer Institute
Media Releases Matter and Material Processes in stars recreated with isotopes from PSI To understand why chemical elements exist in certain amounts on Earth, processes that take place in exploding stars - supernovae - need to be studied. After all, much of the matter that makes up the earth was formed in a supernova billions of years ago and hurled into space by the explosion.
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 19.07.2013
CERN experiments put Standard Model to stringent test
Geneva, 19 July 2013. New results to be presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes in physics: the decay of a B s (pronounced B-sub-s) particle into two muons.
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 04.07.2013
CERN opens its doors to the world
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 03.04.2013
AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space
Geneva 3 April 2013. The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS ) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. The results, presented by AMS spokesperson Professor Samuel Ting in a seminar at CERN 2 , are to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Astronomy / Space - 07.09.2012
ATV-4 Albert Einstein begins the first leg of its journey to the ISS
Bern, 07. The European Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an important element of the supply logistics for the International Space Station (ISS).
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 13.08.2012
LHC experiments bring new insight into matter of the primordial universe
Geneva, 13 August 2012. Experiments using heavy ions at CERN 's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial universe. The ALICE, ATLAS and CMS collaborations have made new measurements of the kind of matter that probably existed in the first instants of the universe. They will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference, which starts today in Washington DC.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 25.07.2012
AMS experiment marks one year in space
Geneva, 25 July 2012. CERN today marked the first year in space for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission, STS-134 , that successfully delivered AMS to the the International Space Station (ISS) just over a year ago.
Astronomy / Space - 30.03.2012
Getting to the Moon on Drops of Fuel
The first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built.
Astronomy / Space - 16.03.2012
CLOSE-SEARCH : project's final in the domain of Search and rescue
Astronomy / Space - 15.02.2012
Cleaning up Earth’s orbit: A Swiss satellite to tackle space debris
The proliferation of debris orbiting the Earth - primarily jettisoned rocket and satellite components - is an increasingly pressing problem for spacecraft, and it can generate huge costs.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 18.12.2011

A new tool to calculate the orientation of a satellite with respect to the Earth, developed by EPFL students, will be on board a European Space Agency rocket scheduled to launch in March 2012.
Astronomy / Space - Economics - 15.06.2011

Event - Astronomy / Space - 07.06.2011

Astronomy / Space - Innovation - 26.05.2011
Selection of Switzerland’s proposal to name the next European automatic space transfer vehicle Albert Einstein
Physics - Astronomy / Space - 23.05.2011
LHC Experiments Present New Results at Quark Matter 2011 Conference
LHC Experiments Present New Results at Quark Matter 2011 Conference Geneva, 23 May 2011. The three LHC experiments that study lead ion collisions all presented their latest results today at the annual Quark Matter conference, held this year in Annecy, France. The results are based on analysis of data collected during the last two weeks of the 2010 LHC run, when the LHC switched from protons to lead-ions.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 27.04.2011
The AMS detector heads for the International Space Station
Update 16 May 2011: Shuttle Endeavour launched successfully at 14:56 CEST Update 10 May 2011: Shuttle launch delayed - launch now planned 16 May 2011.
Computer Science - Apr 17
What keeps alternating current in sync when large power generators go offline?
What keeps alternating current in sync when large power generators go offline?

Economics - Apr 15
Giving visibility to the alternative investment sector: project funded by the SNSF
Giving visibility to the alternative investment sector: project funded by the SNSF

Campus - ETHZ - Apr 15
Strengthening Switzerland as an AI hub and tackling the skilled labour shortage
Strengthening Switzerland as an AI hub and tackling the skilled labour shortage

Innovation - Apr 15
Communicating and understanding each other without barriers: presented the DEEP project
Communicating and understanding each other without barriers: presented the DEEP project
Life Sciences - Apr 14
Generating human brain organoids in the laboratory: the challenge of two USI researchers
Generating human brain organoids in the laboratory: the challenge of two USI researchers
