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Ten years of gravitational-wave detections

Artist's impression of the merger of two black holes with the resulting gravitational waves

We spoke with Michele Vallisneri about his recent move to ETH Zurich, his research plans and the profound impact of the first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.

What if we don’t find any life on the exoplanets, Doctor Angerhausen?

A portrait of astrophysicist Daniel Angerhausen with an exoplanet photographed from space in the background

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.

Higgs, hadrons, big ideas: CERN experiments receive Breakthrough Prize

At a ceremony in Los Angeles on 5 April, the four major experimental collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – were awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

In the search for life on exoplanets, finding nothing is something too

A team led by researchers at ETH Zurich's Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics studied what insights can be gained from a 'no life detected' scenario in future exoplanet surveys.

From prototypes to products

Photo of a weather monitoring station in a hilly, terraced field

An interview with D-PHYS alumnus Dr Leonardo Facheris, R&D Engineer at Sensirion.

Elementary-particle detectors, 3D printed

A SuperCube that's unsealed and illuminated with UV light to show the PS volume within each voxel and the fibres extending through the entire detector

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

Crystal lattice at a distance

An illustration of two crystal lattices with electrons inside in the form of golden spheres

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that makes it easier to study interactions between electrons in a material. Using a moiré material consisting of twisted atomic layers they created an artificial crystal lattice in a neighbouring material.  

Simon Storz wins the first Quantum Entanglement Prize

Detail of a trapped-ion experiment

The researcher received the award for his leading work on a loophole-free Bell test with superconducting circuits and for his enthusiasm for science communication.

Four SNSF Advanced Grants go to ETH Zurich researchers

A microscope in the left half of the picture, in the right half a hand holding banknotes to the left.

A biologist, a neuroscientist, a materials scientist and a physicist have each been awarded one of the prestigious grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Good news for gamma-ray astronomy

A hill dotted with telescope dishes on the island of La Palma

The latest development on the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory brings a step closer the prospect of new insights into some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe.

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