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Middle-school teachers from Uster and Stans traveled with their classes to ETH Zurich. After a tour of the steadily growing Campus Hönggerberg, they visited the Department of Physics. A workshop, presentations and lab visits introduced them to the world of research.

Combing Earth- and space-borne observations, first evidence was found for an extragalactic object acting as a source of high-energy neutrinos, and therefore possibly also of cosmic radiation. An important role in this discovery had the MAGIC telescopes, where also ETH scientists are involved.

ETH physicists have developed an experimental platform for studying the complex phases of a quantum gas characterized by two order parameters. With unprecedented control over the underlying microscopic interactions, the approach should lead to novel insight into the properties of a broad range of fundamentally and technologically important materials.

An international team including two ETH physicists has demonstrated that algorithms and hardware developed originally in the context of quantum computation can be harnessed for quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields.