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They exist in both science and humanities subjects: Science Olympiads in which high school students and other pupils in the same age achieve top performances at national or international level. Such an Olympiad has recently been launched especially for young women with an interest in computer science. The brain behind this idea: Glarus mathematics student Stefanie Zbinden.
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Under the motto "still 24 experiments until Christmas" 24 entertaining physics experiments are offered to do yourself, which are provided in a German and an English version. Physics in Advent (PiA) is designed for pupils in the school years five to ten, i.e. aged 11 to 18 years, respectively.
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Discovery of the oldest high-altitude village in the world, situated at a dizzying 3500 m, and melting snows and glaciers of Monte Rosa – the two young researchers Alexander Groos and Enrico Mattea are awarded the 2021 Quervain Prize from the Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research of the Swiss Academies of Sciences, for their excellent research relating to high mountain.
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A premier at the European Research Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva-Meyrin: 24 teenagers and young adults from all over Switzerland spent over two weeks in October at CERN to learn and conduct experiments on site. The “Swiss High-School Students Internship Program 2021” (HSSIP) promotes the next generation of researchers in particle physics.
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Ingo Sick, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. of the University of Basel, passed away on 30 May 2021, two days after his 82nd birthday. During his postdoctoral period at Stanford University with Nobel Prize winner Robert Hofstadter, he experienced the beginnings of electron research with the world's best electron accelerator at the time, SLAC. This domain of research was to remain with him forever.
The Scienscope is the scientific mediation center for classes of the UNIGE's Faculty of Sciences and was inaugurated on October 5.
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Roland Engfer, Professor Emeritus for Experimental Physics at the University of Zurich, has died on October 18th at the age of 86 years Roland Engfer was a Professor of Experimental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich from 1975 until his retirement in 2001.
Image: University Zurich, SwitzerlandThe Edith Alice Müller Award 2021 is attributed to Romain Allart for his thesis "Exoplanet Atmospheric Studies at High Spectral Resolution"
Image: SGAADer Nobelpreis für Physik 2021 wurde zur Hälfte an die beiden Klimawissenschaftler Syukuro Manabe und Klaus Hasselmann verliehen, «für das physikalische Modellieren des Klimas der Erde, die quantitative Analyse von Variationen und die zuverlässige Vorhersage der Erderwärmung», so die Jury. Die zweite Hälfte erhielt Giorgio Parisi «für die Entdeckung des Zusammenspiels von Unordnung und Fluktuationen physikalischer Systeme von der atomaren bis hin zur planetarischen Ebene». Was ist der Zusammenhang zwischen diesen beiden Teilen des Nobelpreises? Beide haben zu einem besseren Verständnis komplexer Systeme wie der Erde beigetragen.
Image: PixabayEach issue of the new founded "SPS Focus" magazine of the Swiss Physical Society highlights a physics topic in an understandable way.
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The topic of the 51th Saas-Fee Advanced Cours is "Compact-Object Astrophysics in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy". It will be held from 24 to 28 January 2022 in Saas-Fee, in the Swiss Alp and is organized by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA)
The UN World Data Forum 2021 (UNWDF) ended Wednesday 6 October in Bern with the adoption of the “Bern Data Compact for the Decade of Action on the Sustainable Development Goals”. This conference, held for the first time in a hybrid format, had a total of 7626 participants registered online, of whom 668 were present in Bern. The Minister of Home Affairs Alain Berset and the UN Secretary General António Guterres highlighted the importance of data to attain the 2030 Agenda.
Der diesjährige Nobelpreis für Physik geht zur einen Hälfte an Syukuro Manabe und Klaus Hasselmann, zur anderen Hälfte an Giorgio Parisi. Sie werden für ihre Beiträge zur Modellierung des Erdklimas und zum Verständnis komplexer Systeme geehrt.
At first glance, particle physics appears to be a clearly defined sub-discipline of physics. On closer inspection, however, we see a differentiated research landscape with a broad spectrum of questions. The Swiss Institute for Particle Physics (CHIPP), the umbrella organisation for Swiss particle physics, has now drawn up a roadmap of the research priorities for the coming years and decades.
Zwölf Schulen, die sich im Unterricht besonders für Wissenschaft und Technik engagieren, können sich fortan «MINT-aktives Gymnasium» nennen.
Dr Anne Verhamme teaches as an assistant professor of Astronomy at the University of Geneva and researches how galaxies release energy into the universe. The 42-year-old French woman is also a mother of three teenagers and lives in Annecy. That sounds like a proof that a scientific career and family are compatible today. However, Anne Verhamme had to overcome a few hurdles before she got to that point.
The Swiss Physical Society (SPS) awarded honorary membership to Prof. Friedrich-Karl Thielemann at the annual general assembly and draws attention to his exceptionally broad commitment
Last year, Gabriel Cuomo successfully defended his PhD thesis in theoretical particle physics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). For this academic achievement, the Sicilian-born physicist, who now lives and researches in New York, receives the Doctoral Students Award of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP). The prize will be awarded at the beginning of September in Innsbruck on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) together with the Austrian partner organisation.
To complete their research team the Research Group Snow Hydrology of the he WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF offers a two-year position starting on November 2021 as a PostDoc Snow Hydrology (80–100 %).
For more than a decade, Stella Bollmann has lived for the statistical methods of psychology. Since this spring, her heart also beats for her newborn son. Starting this autumn, she wants to resume her academic work, and balance it with family life. Step by step, she wants to dis-cover how this can succeed, and what significance family and career will have in her life in the future.
Das Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU sucht eine/n Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in Hydrologie 60%.
The 2021 PhD prize of the Swiss Society of Crystallography goes to Dr. Florian Kleemiß in recognition of his work in the field of Quantum Crystallography, investigated in his thesis "Development of quantum-crystallographic methods for chemical and biological applications", which he completed at the University of Bern in 2020. Florian will be presenting results related to his thesis during the Annual Meeting in Fribourg, 02.09.2021.
Für viele junge Mathegenies war es die wichtigste Woche des Jahres: Vom 18. bis 24. Juli fand die Internationale Mathematik-Olympiade (IMO) statt. Unter den 619 Teilnehmenden aus 107 Ländern waren auch sechs aus der Schweiz, von denen drei je eine Bronzemedaille ergatterten.
Bei der Internationalen Physik-Olympiade (IPhO) vom 17. bis 24. Juli lösten Jugendliche aus über 70 Ländern anspruchsvolle Aufgaben über LED, Erdbebenwellen oder Quantenphysik. Die fünf Teilnehmer aus der Schweiz verbrachten den virtuellen Wettbewerb in Signau (BE) – und staubten eine Bronzemedaille und drei Ehrenmeldungen ab.
Hundreds of global researchers, including University of Zurich, are planning the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built.
The XENON/DARWIN and LUX-ZEPLIN collaborations have now joined forces to work together on the design, construction, and operation of a new, single, multi-tonne scale xenon observatory to explore dark matter. The detector will be highly sensitive to a wide range of proposed dark matter particles and their interactions with visible matter. Over the last 20+ years, experiments using liquefied xenon targets have delivered world-leading results in the global quest for direct dark matter detection. This next-generation detector aims to continue the pursuit.
The search for dark matter is one of the 'hot topics' in current elementary particle physics. Recently, powerful detectors have been developed that may be able to experimentally detect the components of this 'dark', invisible matter. Laura Baudis, professor of physics at the University of Zurich, has made a significant contribution to the development of this research infrastructure over the past 20 years.
Vom 13. bis 19. Juni fand zum ersten Mal die in der Schweiz gegründete European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI) statt. Der internationale Wettbewerb mit 157 Schülerinnen aus 43 Ländern wurde online durchgeführt. Die Schweizer Teilnehmerinnen waren aber in Zürich vor Ort, wo drei von ihnen am Samstag Silber- und Bronzemedaillen entgegennehmen konnten.
Every six and a half years, comet 'Chury' (short for: Churyumov-Gerassimenko) comes close to the sun on its orbit. The last time this happened in 2015, the lump of ice-dust, only a few cubic kilometres in size, was observed at close range by the space probe ROSETTA. Kathrin Altwegg played an important role in the spectacular space mission. For the astrophysicist from the University of Bern, the mission is still not over.
The newly opened Science Exploratorium of the University of Zurich hosts temporary exhibitions in which researchers share their enthusiasm for their research topics.
The European Research Centre for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva is currently working on making the measurement data from four large-scale experiments available to the public via internet. This form of 'open science' benefits particle physicists around the globe, but also students or high school students - for example in Switzerland.
For the Matura, he wrote a satire on Berlusconi – in Latin. And for his dissertation, which was awarded the Prix Schläfli, he chose a field that is rather exotic even for insiders: Diophantine geometry. Gabriel Dill likes it a little complicated.
The body's own defence against urinary tract infections, a new method for quantifying and determining genetic damage, evidence in so-called Diophantine geometry and the question of how soot from combustion processes influences the formation of clouds and thus, the climate – the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is awarding the Prix Schläfli 2021 to the four most important insights of young researchers at Swiss universities. Claudia Aloisi (Chemistry), Gabriel Dill (Mathematics), Fabian Mahrt (Geosciences) and Gregor Weiss (Biology) receive the prize for findings in their dissertations. The Prix Schläfli is awarded annually to the four best dissertations in the natural sciences. This prize was first awarded as early as 1866.
Her favorite number is 7, and her professional life revolves around numbers and shapes: Kathryn Hess teaches and conducts research at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in topology, the mathematics of shape and connectivity. As a mother of four children, her academic career has its own unconventional arc.
Un cycle de 3 conférences publiques en mai 2021 assuré par l’astrophysicien et écrivain Trinh Xuan Thuan.
The Trust Science pledge is a worldwide campaign to promote support for the scientific process and to acknowledge the many benefits of science for society.
At the beginning of April, the US research laboratory Fermilab published a new result for the magnetic dipole moment of the muon. The result caused a broad media response because it deviates from the theoretical predictions and thus questions the previous understanding of the laws of nature. Researchers from the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) at the University of Bern were involved in the theoretical predictions. Prof. Martin Hoferichter, theoretical physicist at the AEC, explains the background.
Vier junge Mathematikerinnen nahmen vom 9. bis 15. April an der European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad, kurz EGMO, teil. Da der Wettbewerb für junge Frauen online stattfand, stellten sie sich den Prüfungen nicht im Gastland Georgien, sondern in den Schweizer Bergen.
In Italy, female high school graduates choose to study physics much more naturally than it has been the case in Switzerland so far. Ilaria Zardo was one of these young Italian women who first became enthusiastic about studying physics and later about academic research. Today, as a professor at the University of Basel, she and her research group study heat flows at the nanoscale level.
When people talk about CERN, they inevitably think of the large-scale experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). But the European Laboratory for Particle Physics has even more to offer: A small but powerful experiment called FASER is currently being assembled at CERN, involving research teams led by Geneva physics professors Anna Sfyrla and Giuseppe Iacobucci and by Bern physics professor Akitaka Ariga. FASER proves: Even comparatively inexpensive experiments have the potential for groundbreaking scientific findings.
![Comparison between RK measurements. The measurements by the BaBar and Belle collaborations combine B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− and B0→KS0ℓ+ℓ− decays, where ℓ is a lepton. The previous LHCb measurements and the new result [4], which supersedes them, are also shown.](http://portal-cdn.scnat.ch/asset/40d25219-cf32-5d7f-a344-d4356ccc9252/Screenshot%202021-03-23%20at%2007.10.12.png?b=7f50075d-36d9-5913-bc44-fac8e7e34457&v=9bd7e834-a6a8-55b6-a09e-b7a43d64781f_100&s=ZXCr4RK3qEJY7uCaZs-9pRZZZ8OZ8EVj3Rtyhyf2-qP-evQun65d57tCLxGqXtaTEoil2Qpqb3qILXWzeagdRAk0VyPfdvD6i55sqpj1txNkByqDDgqtsu4QPc8YaVnoTVyp_QF8cXZ9TucqIpINFjwWWfLF-52KvErWu9a54Gs&t=168762a9-a047-48ef-8189-ae1810223337&sc=2 "Comparison between RK measurements. The measurements by the BaBar and Belle collaborations combine B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− and B0→KS0ℓ+ℓ− decays, where ℓ is a lepton. The previous LHCb measurements and the new result [4], which supersedes them, are also shown.")
Almost ten years ago, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) made headlines with the discovery of the Higgs particle. These days, the LHCb experiment at CERN has published results that also have the makings of a real scientific sensation: studies of the so-called beauty quark suggest that there could be a fifth, super-weak force in addition to the four known forces of nature (electromagnetism, gravitation, strong and weak interaction). However, CERN researchers still have a lot of work ahead of them to confirm this spectacular hypothesis. At the forefront: particle physicists from the University of Zurich and EPF Lausanne
Until his retirement in 2017, Martin Pohl was a physics professor at the University of Geneva and worked on particle physics research projects for almost half a century. Drawing on this wealth of experience, a book has been written in which Pohl knowledgeably traces the developmental strands of this fundamental discipline. The culmination is the 'Standard Model' of particle physics - for Pohl a scientific highlight and a burden at the same time.
Swiss Particle Physics researchers are very proud to announce that UZH people worked directly on this measurement and had a leading role on this analysis, EPFL and UZH are very prominent in LHCb in both analysis and hardware.
Ruth Durrer was the first woman to take an assistant professorship in theoretical physics at the University of Zurich. Almost 30 years have passed since this appointment, 30 years in which Ruth Durrer has left her mark on her field - cosmology and astrophysics - as a professor. Despite her personal success, the 63-year-old researcher cautions: "Women's careers in science are still far from being evident."
UNESCO celebrates every year on 16 May the International Day of Light (IDL). It is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, as well as in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy.
The workshop will be virtual and will include sessions with talks and discussions. A panel discussion will conclude the workshop.
The technical know-how that physicists use in research could soon serve in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. An international team of scientists with strong Swiss participation has developed a ventilator in record time that could help in the future against lung diseases like Corona, especially in countries with a precarious medical infrastructure.
The CHEOPS space telescope detects six planets orbiting the star TOI-178. Five of the planets are in a harmonic rhythm despite very different compositions – a novelty. CHEOPS is a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Switzerland, under the aegis of the University of Bern in collaboration with the University of Geneva.
In the laboratories of modern physics the elementary components of matter are studied. To do this, scientists sometimes build artificial atoms to help them understand the laws of matter. A research team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen/AG) uses a specifically modified helium atom to determine the exact mass and other properties of pions. Pions could help to understand more precisely where atomic nuclei get their mass from.
Die Schweizerische Kommission für Polar- und Höhenforschung der Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz hat zusammen mit der Jungfraujochkommission der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz den diesjährigen Nachwuchs-Forschungspreis «Prix De Quervain» auf dem Gebiet der Polarforschung vergeben. Prämiert wurde die Doktorarbeit von Dr. Lea Pfäffli, die sich mit dem Wissen um die Arktis zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts beschäftigt.
Where do the chemical elements from carbon and oxygen, to iron and lead that make up our world and ourselves come from?
ESA has signed an €86 million contract with an industrial team led by Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to purchase a unique service: the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit.
Presents a novel combination of essays with contributors from big research organizations, funding agencies and experts in economics
In naher Zukunft möchten wir verschiedenste Jugendprojekte im Kanton Aargau umsetzen. Geplant sind zum Beispiel naturwissenschaftliche Praktika, Exkursionen, Vorträge oder Mentorate für schriftliche Arbeiten.
Claudia Merlassino was born in Genoa, studied physics in Milan and completed her doctorate at the University of Bern in October 2019, since then she has been doing research at Oxford University in the UK. At the age of 28, the Italian experimental physicist has already made a remarkable journey as a researcher. She is now receiving the PhD prize in Swiss particle physics - among other things for her findings in the context of the most massive of all elementary particles.
The PhD Prize of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA) was attributed this year to two laureates.
The most prestigious prize in Germany in the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Karl Schwarzschild Medal, is awarded to Friedrich-Karl Thielemann – member of the MAP Presidium and former MAP President – in honour of his research on the boundary of nuclear physics and astrophysics.
On June 19th CERN Council adopted the update of the "European Strategy for Particle Physics 2020". This document updates an earlier strategy paper that was adopted by the Council in 2013, just after the Higgs discovery in 2012. It identifies the medium and long-term priorities of fundamental research in particle physics and thus forms an important basis for the construction of the European research infrastructure. The implications of this strategy update for Swiss particle physics are answered by Rainer Wallny, Professor of Particle Physics at ETH Zurich and President of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), the umbrella organisation of Swiss particle physics.
Mit einem interaktiven Erklärstück über Exoplaneten gewinnen Fabien Goubet und sein Team den Prix Média 2020. Die Preisjury zeigte sich beeindruckt von der Kreativität und der wissenschaftlichen Tiefe dieses Online-Beitrags zu Exoplaneten. Den Prix Média Newcomer erhält Michelle Isler für ihren Text zum Geschlechterverhältnis in der Berichterstattung über die Corona Pandemie. Mit grosser Gewandtheit und selbst erhobenen Daten rückt sie eine Realität aus dem Alltag in unser Bewusstsein.
The delta+ is a type of baryon, the family of sub-atomic particles to which the more well-known proton and neutron belong. A team of physics enthusiasts at the International School of Geneva is working intensively on these extremely unstable elementary particles. In September they will travel to Hamburg for an experiment at the renowned particle physics research institute DESY. They owe this extraordinary research trip to winning this year's “Beamline for Schools” (BL4S) competition at CERN.
Diese Woche erscheint der neue COSPAR-Bericht, der eine Übersicht über die Schweizer Aktivitäten rund um das Thema Weltraum gibt. Renato Krpoun, Leiter der Abteilung Raumfahrt (auch Swiss Space Office genannt) des Staatssekretariats für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI, nimmt dazu Stellung und betont dabei die Bedeutung der Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaft und Industrie.
Die Europäische Physik-Olympiade, kurz EuPhO, stellte dieses Jahr 260 Mittelschülerinnen und Mittelschüler aus 53 Ländern vor physikalische Rätsel. Der Wettbewerb fand vom 21. – 26. Juli virtuell statt.
Une collaboration internationale entre des télescopes au sol et en orbite éclaire l’un des mystères de l’univers. L’alerte a été lancée par l’observatoire spatial Integral de l’ESA, dont les données scientifiques sont traitées à l’Université de Genève.
Axions are elementary particles with extremely low mass. So far they exist only in the brains of theoretical physicists, nobody has observed them. Really? Measurement results at detector XENON1T in Italy make one sit up and take notice.
Teams of researchers from EPFL and University of Zurich are members of the LHCb collaboraiton and have made major contributions to the construction and operation of the detector
Claudia Merlassino was born in Genoa, studied physics in Milan and completed her doctorate at the University of Bern in October 2019, since then she has been doing research at Oxford University in the UK. At the age of 28, the Italian experimental physicist has already made a remarkable journey as a researcher. She is now receiving the PhD prize in Swiss particle physics - among other things for her findings in the context of the most massive of all elementary particles.
Das Finale der Physik-Olympiade hätte eigentlich schon im März stattfinden sollen. Wegen der Coronavirus-Pandemie wurden die Prüfungen auf den 6. Juni verschoben und online durchgeführt. Die 24 Finalistinnen und Finalisten stellten ihr Können von zuhause aus unter Beweis. Als am 27. Juni die Resultate verkündet wurden, war die Spannung gross.
The Prix Schläfli, one of the longest-running science prizes in Switzerland (since 1866), is awarded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) to young scientists for excellent articles resulting from PhDs in each of the following disciplines: Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences and Mathematics.
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When analyzing data from the XENON1T detector for dark matter, a signal excess was observed. The UZH researchers do not yet know for sure where this unexpected signal comes from. They say the origins could be relatively banal, but they could also indicate the existence of new particles or hitherto unknown properties of neutrinos.
To recognise the International Day of Light 2020 and the 60th anniversary of the laser, the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) publishes a detailed report by René Salathé (EPFL) to record the development and milestones in laser science from 1960 to 1980 in Switzerland.
This media update is part of a series related to the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Physics conference, which took place from 25 to 30 May 2020. Originally planned to take place in Paris, the conference was held entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ALICE, CMS and LHCb collaborations present new measurements that show how particles containing charm quarks can serve as “messengers” of hadrons and the quark–gluon plasma, carrying information about these forms of matter. This media update is part of a series related to the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2020) conference, taking place 25–30 May 2020.
Researchers from the University of Geneva, have confirmed the existence of the Proxima b extrasolar planet using measurements from the Swiss-built ESPRESSO spectrograph.
He challenged the standard model of cosmology in his dissertation by demonstrating that dwarf galaxies have not invariably chaotic motions, but can also orbit around the main axis of their parent galaxy in an orderly fashion. This got Oliver Müller the Prix Schläfli award in Astronomy.
The orbits of dwarf galaxies, forces in materials such as Teflon, tracing history through pollen, a new protective layer at root tips – these are the topics for which the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) has awarded the Prix Schläfli 2020 to the four most important insights gained by young researchers at Swiss universities. Alice Berhin (Biology), Oliver Müller (Astronomy), Robert Pollice (Chemistry) and Fabian Rey (Geosciences) receive the prize for the findings arrived at in their dissertations. Four of the candidates for the Prix Schläfli award were also selected as Young Scientists at the internationally prestigious 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Positron emission tomography (PET) helps medical doctors to detect cancer and many other diseases. A team of researchers led by ETH Professor Günther Dissertori is working on a new generation of PET scanners that could in future be of great use in pharmacological research and in the treatment of Alzheimer's patients. The technical innovation is based, among other things, on fundamental research at CERN.
Vom 15. bis 21. April 2020 fand die European Girls Mathematical Olympiad zum ersten Mal online statt. Da die jungen Mathematikerinnen wegen der Coronavirus-Pandemie nicht wie geplant in die Niederlande reisen konnten, kam der Wettbewerb zu ihnen. Vier Schweizerinnen kämpften von zuhause aus um Medaillen – mit Erfolg.
FCC - these three letters stand for the vision of a new ring accelerator that could be built at the European particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva. With this long-term goal in mind, Swiss physicists founded the CHART research initiative five years ago. Now the demonstrator of a powerful magnet is available. If the tests are successful, a very first step towards decisive progress in infrastructure for basic research, but also in applications such as, e.g., innovative instrumentation for medical therapies will be achieved.
CHEOPS has reached its next milestone: Following extensive tests in Earth's orbit, some of which the mission team was forced to carry out from home due to the coronavirus crisis, the space telescope has been declared ready for science. CHEOPS stands for “CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite”, and has the purpose of investigating known exoplanets to determine, among other things, whether they have conditions that are hospitable to life.
The T2K Collaboration has published new results showing the strongest constraint yet on the parameter that governs the breaking of the symmetry between matter and antimatter in neutrino oscillations.
With many people across the world staying at home these days, the European Space Agency (ESA) has curated a selection of activities for you to pass time and learn more about space science in the meantime.
Raphael Angst von der Kantonsschule Im Lee (ZH) und die Gymnasiastin Yanta Wang aus Oberwil (BL) haben für ihre Leistungen an der Schweizer Mathematik-Olympiade Gold gewonnen. Vier Mittelschülerinnen und Mittelschüler gewannen bei dem Wettbewerb Silber, sechs holten sich Bronze.
Scientists at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) have spent around ten years building the Spectrometer / Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX). Since 10 February, the research instrument is travelling to the Sun. It will provide accurate measurements of the solar atmosphere and the solar wind and will also cover the polar regions of the Sun that cannot be observed from Earth.
Vier junge Forschende aus der Schweiz Franck Le Vaillant, Oliver Müller, Robert Pollice und Sabine Studer wurden auserkoren am international prestigeträchtigen 70. Lindauer Treffen der NobelpreisträgerInnen Ende Juni teilzunehmen. Die Akademie der Naturwissenschaft (SCNAT) nominiert jährlich geeignete Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten aus den jungen Forschenden, die für den Prix Schläfli nominiert worden sind.
With its European particle physics laboratory CERN, Geneva attracts many researchers to Switzerland. This was also the case with François Drielsma (28). In a doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Alain Blondel (University of Geneva), the Belgian-born scientist investigated a completely new way to build a particle accelerator.
Particle physicists from all over Europe are currently discussing the future of European particle physics, when the current ring accelerator LHC will be decommissioned around 2035. Next May, the decision could be taken launch technical and financial feasibility studies for the construction of a new, even more powerful particle accelerator.
This week’s drafting session marks final discussions for the update of the European strategy for particle physics
Solar Orbiter is a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) to observe our closest star, the Sun. The launch from Cape Canaveral, USA, is now foreseen on the morning of 10 February (CET). The Spectrometer / Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is one of the 10 instruments on board and was developed in Switzerland by the "Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz" (FHNW).
Elementary particle physics and the large-scale CERN research facility have repeatedly inspired artists to engage with modern scientific research. The latest example is the movie 'Les Particules' by French-Swiss filmmaker Blaise Harrison (39). In this art piece scientific research serves as an escape and dream world for an adolescent.
The relief was huge when the Soyuz Fregat rocket with CHEOPS on board took off shortly before 10 a.m. MEZ on Wednesday, 18 December 2019. The spectators at the University of Bern followed the ESA live coverage from Kourou, French Guiana, with great applause.
Lesya Shchutska (pronounced: Schutska) is 33 years old and already Professor of Elementary Particle Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). "At the moment I can't imagine doing anything other than physics," says the researcher, who deals with particles that so far only exist in the minds of theoretical physicists.
At the occasion of the Swiss Geoscience meeting in Fribourg in November 2019, the ACP Award for Atmospheric Research was presented to Daniele Nerini for his PhD thesis “Ensemble precipitation nowcasting: limits to prediction, localization and seamless blending”.
Under the motto "still 24 experiments until Christmas" 24 entertaining physics experiments are offered to do yourself, which are provided in a German and an English version.
This Factsheet contains recommendations to shape Open Access and Open Data so that they foster scientific progress and benefit society in Switzerland.
Achtzehn Schweizer Gymnasien, die in den Bereichen Wissenschaft und Technik besonders aktiv sind, werden mit dem MINT-Label (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik) der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz ausgezeichnet.
Die Plattform MAP der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften (SCNAT) trauert um Gustav Andreas Tammann, einen bedeutenden Forscher auf dem Gebiet der extragalaktischen Astronomie und Kosmologie.
Prof. Ernst Meyer (Uni. Basel) is the new President of the Platform MAP starting in 2019. He succeeds to Prof. Friedrich-Karl Thielemann (Uni. Basel), who served for six years (2013-2018) as President and stays in the Presidium for another three-year term.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 with one half to Arthur Ashkin (USA) and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (Canada). Ashkin invented optical tweezers that grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells with their laser beam fingers. Mourou and Strickland paved the way towards the shortest and most intense laser pulses ever created by mankind.
The “Alexander Friedrich Schläfli Prize” of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is one of the oldest prizes in Switzerland. Since the first awarding in 1866, 108 young talents in different natural science disciplines have been distinguished.
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