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…
19.01.2016 Where the Earth is humming and whistling The Earth is constantly in motion, like a vibrating bell. Natural forces are the origin of these vibrations, which are…
16.12.2015 Searching for materials with a supercomputer Supercomputers allow researchers to discover previously unknown materials and to predict their properties based on…
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…
16.11.2015 Turning life into a profession Computer scientist Torsten Hoefler is the winner of this year’s Latsis Prize awarded by ETH Zurich. His Scalable…
09.11.2015 ETH research among the best supercomputer applications in 2015 Every year at the SC conference, the Gordon Bell Prize is presented to recognise outstanding work in the field of…
13.05.2015 Cold and snow came from the south As simulations conducted by climate researchers from the University of Bern and the Oeschger Centre reveal, the…
17.04.2015 Nanoelectronic components on the "computer test bench" Thanks to a special computer programme, researchers from ETH Zurich are able to simulate electronic nanocomponents and…
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…
11.02.2015 Summer storms and heavy rainfall in the future climate Hail, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. These extreme events are supposedly on the increase in the course of global…
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…
29.10.2014 Trend signals from the oceans Scientists at the University of Bern have shown in a new study that the imprint of carbon dioxide emissions caused by…
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…