02.03.2020 The seismicity of Mars Fifteen months after the successful landing of the NASA InSight mission on Mars, first scientific analyses of ETH Zurich…
05.02.2020 Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different The two outermost giant planets of the solar system have similar masses, but also have striking differences. Researchers…
11.11.2019 Towards unveiling the origin of our galaxy Up to this day, cosmic particles tell the story of the universe and how it came into existence. Now, a research group at…
01.04.2019 “Piz Daint” takes on Tier 2 function in Worldwide LHC Computing Grid In the future, the “Piz Daint” supercomputer will handle part of the analysis of data generated by the experiments…
04.03.2019 New simulation methods to visualise quantum effects in superfluid fermions What exactly happens inside neutron stars – the final stage of a giant star – is subject to speculation. In terms of…
19.11.2018 Encouraging prospects for moon hunters Astrophysicists of the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich show how the icy moons of Uranus were born. Their result…
03.07.2018 Quantum chromodynamics for everybody PASC18 conference in Basel presented an interdisciplinary dialogue between ETH professor Petros Koumoutsakos and…
25.05.2018 Simulations for InSight Mars mission On 5 May, a rocket launched the InSight lander on its journey to Mars. On board: a seismometer to investigate the…
28.02.2018 Teaching quantum physics to a computer An international collaboration led by ETH physicists has used machine learning on "Piz Daint" to teach the CSCS-…
09.10.2017 With help of "Piz Daint" supercomputer towards solving the proton spin puzzle Scientists in a research group led by Constantia Alexandrou, Professor of physics at the University of Cyprus and the…
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…
