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Astronomy / Space - Physics - 16.04.2025

The planned space missions to search for remote life will provide valuable insights even if they do not find any evidence of life, says astrophysicist Daniel Angerhausen.
Physics - Event - 09.04.2025

Physics - Computer Science - 27.03.2025

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together.
Physics - 25.03.2025
A new piece in the matter-antimatter puzzle
Yesterday, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter. In its analysis of large quantities of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider , the international team found overwhelming evidence that particles known as baryons, such as the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, are subject to a mirror-like asymmetry in nature's fundamental laws that causes matter and antimatter to behave differently.
Physics - 19.03.2025

Researchers, working with the Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, have developed a new method for identifying neutrinos using data from CERN's NA62 experiment-which recently observed the rarest particle decay ever recorded. Particle physics explores the smallest building blocks of nature, particles so tiny that trillions of them pass through us unnoticed every second.
Physics - Materials Science - 14.03.2025

Researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful experiment was a kind of "quantum Lego" made of tiny carbon molecules known as nanographenes.
Physics - Innovation - 13.03.2025

Physics - Materials Science - 06.03.2025

At the end of January, Empa opened a new laboratory that aims to harness quantum effects from carbon.
Physics - Computer Science - 06.03.2025

Environment - Physics - 06.03.2025

Physics - Chemistry - 04.03.2025
New WSS research center for molecular quantum systems
Physics - Computer Science - 24.02.2025
When quantum computing meets the real world
Quantum computing could be one of the big technological revolutions of the coming decades. At EPFL, scientists are at the forefront of harnessing quantum technologies to address real-world issues, aligning their efforts with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Computer Science - Physics - 13.02.2025

Physics - Computer Science - 06.02.2025
Unique quantum simulator opens door to new research
As a journalist, do you have general questions about PSI? Are you looking for an expert on your topic? Get in touch with our PSI physicists have teamed up with Google to build a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator.
Physics - Computer Science - 06.02.2025
Einzigartiger Quantensimulator öffnet Tür zu neuer Forschung
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Life Sciences - Physics - 15.01.2025
Four SNSF Advanced Grants go to researchers
Environment - Physics - 14.01.2025
Stress tests for the Swiss power system
Researchers from ETH Zurich and ZHAW Winterthur are simulating in a new study how the future Swiss power system could be structured to withstand a drastic fall in gas and electricity imports.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 07.01.2025

The University of Geneva coordinates the participation of Swiss institutions in the CTAO project, which addresses the most fascinating questions of high-energy astrophysics.
Life Sciences - Physics - 06.01.2025
Exploring the gut-brain connection at SPIE Photonics West 2025
Physics - Environment - 21.11.2024
Eight SNSF Starting Grants for researchers
Physics - Event - 11.11.2024

ETH Professor Yiwen Chu is investigating how to apply quantum states to ever larger objects. This should help to gain new insights into physics and develop more efficient technologies.
Physics - Architecture - 04.11.2024

Physics - 01.11.2024
Iron detection method based on high-resolution magnetic field camera
Hochschule für Life Sciences Iron detection is important in many areas, from the food industry to health research and machine maintenance.
Physics - Materials Science - 15.10.2024

Giulia Tagliabue, a tenure-track assistant professor in mechanical engineering, has won the EPFL Award for Best Teaching.
Physics - Innovation - 11.10.2024
Particle physicists chart a course to the future
Physics - Chemistry - 11.10.2024
New endowed lectureship in molecular quantum materials
Physics - Innovation - 10.10.2024
How catalysts remove dangerous nitrogen oxides
As a journalist, do you have general questions about PSI? Are you looking for an expert on your topic? Get in touch with our ESA comes to Switzerland The signing of a contract between the European Space Agency ESA and PSI marks the start of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre ESDI.
Physics - Campus - 23.09.2024

Physics - 18.09.2024
LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet
Quantum entanglement is a fascinating feature of quantum physics - the theory of the very small. If two particles are quantum-entangled, the state of one particle is tied to that of the other, no matter how far apart the particles are. This mind-bending phenomenon, which has no analogue in classical physics, has been observed in a wide variety of systems and has found several important applications, such as quantum cryptography and quantum computing.
Physics - Research Management - 22.08.2024

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 09.08.2024

Starting today, the Earth will be passing through a meteor shower. But in astronomy, the human eye is very much a limited tool. But increasingly powerful instruments are allowing us to peer ever deeper into the cosmos and ever further back in time, shedding new light on the origins of the universe. Today, scientists are able to observe an exoplanet orbiting its star, an individual galaxy and even the entire universe.
Physics - Computer Science - 22.07.2024
SLS 2.0: ’Dark time’ during the upgrade
As a journalist, do you have general questions about PSI? Are you looking for an expert on your topic? Get in touch with our The Cables of the SLS Building services, magnets, IT - many different parties are involved in the SLS upgrade.
Physics - Computer Science - 17.07.2024

EPFL was selected by the EUROfusion consortium to develop an advanced visualization system for a preliminary process in nuclear fusion.
Physics - Innovation - 01.07.2024
Cooperation in reactor research
Copenhagen Atomics, a Danish molten salt reactor developer, and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Switzerland's largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences, have signed a large-scale experimental collaboration agreement.
Physics - Economics - 18.06.2024

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 05.06.2024

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 05.06.2024

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has started the design and construction of the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph (ANDES) with an international consortium involving the University
Computer Science - Physics - 02.05.2024

EPFL engineers have developed new software called Pyxu that makes it easier and faster to reconstruct images taken at any scale. Their system employs reusable, and universally applicable, bricks of algorithms. Scientists use an array of imaging instruments to look inside living organisms, sometimes as they move, and to observe inert objects without altering their state.
Physics - Electroengineering - 25.04.2024
3.1 million in funding for new research projects at PSI
Physics - Materials Science - 08.04.2024

As a journalist, do you have general questions about PSI? Are you looking for an expert on your topic? Get in touch with our Mitigating Cracks in Multi-Material Printing Integrating metallic powders with thin foils in laser powder bed fusion can reduce interfacial cracks and improve microstructure quality in titanium-aluminum multi-material printing.
Education - Physics - 11.03.2024

In a pilot project, apprentices from four different professions in the Department of Physics had to work together to build an interactive exhibition object.
Physics - 02.02.2024

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 25.01.2024

The European Space Agency's most expensive and complex mission, the LISA space antenna, has reached a major milestone: it has passed the stage of intensive testing by experts in the Mission Adoption Review process - a significant step for the LISA consortium.
Environment - Physics - 24.01.2024
Hydrogen: handle with care
For Anthony Patt, Europe's ambitious plans for a hydrogen economy may be too ambitious, tipping the scales towards the interests of the fossil fuel industry, rather than energy consumers and the climate.
Physics - Electroengineering - 21.01.2024

Physics - 08.12.2023
Federal Council appoints Christian Rüegg as Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI for a further term of office
Environment - Physics - 05.12.2023

At a time when climate change is causing intense droughts to alternate with torrential rains, the RADMOGG project aims to assess the dynamics of the underground reservoirs to which the blue gold that falls from the sky flows, based on the measurement of minute variations in the Earth's gravity. The project's initiator, Landon Halloran, assistant professor at the University of Neuchâtel's Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermal Energy (CHYN), presented its objectives at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting on November 17 and 18 in Mendrisio (TI ).
Health - Physics - 10.11.2023

Today, the Dynamic Imaging Center at sitem-insel, the Swiss Institute for Translational Medicine and Entrepreneurship, opened its doors. Here, for the first time, X-ray images of a moving person can be taken simultaneously from two different directions. This enables clinical research that is unique in Europe and that represents a milestone in the investigation of musculoskeletal disorders.
Astronomy / Space - Physics - 10.11.2023

The ARRAKHIS consortium, for which EPFL has the science lead, has just successfully passed the mission definition review of the project, a very important first milestone towards full completion of the mission preparation.
Campus - Physics - 09.11.2023

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
