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21 June 2019
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PSI imaging helps with rocket launches

Media Releases Matter and Material Industrial co-operation Research Using Neutrons

PSI researchers are helping the European space program: Their neutron imaging serves to ensure the quality of critical components for rocket launches.

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13 June 2019
teaser an frischer luft und im smog

In fresh air and in smog

Enviroment Energy and Environment

PSI researchers drill through millennia-old glacier ice in the high mountains and analyse the world's highest particulate concentrations in Delhi, India. They are helping to address questions regarding climate change and to reduce air pollution.

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5 June 2019
remap

Testing the energy system of the future today, as realistically as possible

Energy and Environment ESI Platform Renewable Energies

With the kick-off of the ReMaP project, companies have another opportunity to test their vision for the energy system of the future now. PSI's ESI platform helps to make better and more intelligent use of renewable energy in the future.

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4 June 2019
Teaser magnetic shape memory

New material with magnetic shape memory

Media Releases Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

PSI researchers have developed a material whose shape memory is activated through magnetism. Application areas for this new kind of composite material include, for example, medicine, space flight, electronics, and robotics.

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7 May 2019
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New material also reveals new quasiparticles

Media Releases Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

Researchers at PSI have investigated a novel crystalline material at the Swiss Light Source SLS that exhibits electronic properties never seen before. Among other things, they were able to detect a new type of quasiparticle: so-called Rarita-Schwinger fermions.

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26 April 2019
teaser adenylate cyclase

Bringing information into the cell

Media Releases Biology Human Health Medical Science

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have elucidated an important part of a siganalling pathway that transmits information through the cell membrane into the interior of a cell. This exists in all mammals and plays an important role, among other things, in the regulation of the heartbeat. The new findings could lead to new therapies.

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29 March 2019
Zhaochu Luo, lead author of the study, in front of a so-called sputter deposition tool. In the apparatus the layers of platinum, cobalt and aluminium oxide are produced. Each layer is only a few nanometers thick. (Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic)

A compass pointing West

Media Releases Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

Researchers at PSI have discovered a new phenomenon of magnetism with the help of the Swiss Light Source SLS. Certain groups of atoms behave like a compass pointing West. This could make computers much more powerful.

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11 March 2019
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Cladding tubes and their properties

Energy and Environment Nuclear Power Plant Safety Research Using Neutrons

In the Nuclear Energy and Safety Research Division at PSI, Johannes Bertsch focuses on the so-called cladding tubes that are used in nuclear power plants.

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28 February 2019
Professor Beate Timmermann(Photo: West German Proton Therapy Centre Essen)

Children are her passion

Media Releases Medical Science Human Health Proton Therapy

At PSI, Beate Timmermann built up a programme providing proton therapy for children with cancer at the same time she was raising her own son. Today she is head of the Clinic for Particle Therapy at the West German Proton Therapy Centre in Essen (WPE) and is considered one of the most accomplished experts in this field.

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15 February 2019

Watching electrons and switching bits on

Micro- and Nanotechnology Energy and Environment Matter and Material Materials Research Industrial co-operation Research Using Synchrotron Light Research Using Neutrons

Electronics should get smaller, faster, and above all more energy-efficient. These themes are also present in several research groups at PSI. From incremental improvements to complete rethinking – who is currently working on what?

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1 February 2019

Virtual lens improves X-ray microscopy

Media Releases Matter and Material Research Using Synchrotron Light

A method developed by PSI researchers makes X-ray images of materials even better. The researchers took a number of individual images while moving an optical lens. From these, with the help of computer algorithms, they generated one overall image.

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30 January 2019

Now it's time for something new

SwissFEL Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light Research Using Neutrons Research with muons

If you make electronic components smaller, they unfortunately get hotter. Also, we will soon reach the limit of technically feasible miniaturisation. At PSI, Gabriel Aeppli and Christian Rüegg are working on fundamentally new, physical solutions for better computers and data storage devices.

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14 January 2019

Measurement of five flashes from the depths of the universe

Media Releases Matter and Material

A PSI-developed detector called POLAR has collected data on so-called gamma-ray bursts from a space station. This is now helping to better understand these extremely high-energy flashes of light.

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19 December 2018

New paths for energy with hydrogen

Energy and Environment Renewable Energies ESI Platform

At the ESI Platform at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers are seeking solutions for Switzerland's energy future and improving the efficiency of modern forms of renewable energy. With a mini gas turbine, they now have closed another energy cycle.

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6 December 2018

EU grants 14 million to Swiss Researchers

Media Releases Materials Research Matter and Material Research Using Neutrons Large Research Facilities

A team with three researchers from the ETH Domain has been awarded a prestigious EU grant. Today, they received the contract signed by the EU confirming the extraordinary 14 million euros funding. With it, they will investigate quantum effects which could become the backbone of future electronics.

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14 November 2018

On the go at 200 kilometres per hour

Research Using Synchrotron Light Industrial co-operation

Fabia Gozzo is no woman for the comfort zone. First she made a beamline at the Swiss Light Source SLS of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI into one of the world's leading facilities. Today she is making her knowledge available to industry with her spin-off.

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26 October 2018

Making the impossible possible

Media Releases Materials Research Matter and Material Research Using Neutrons

Use of multiferroic materials promises more energy-efficient computers because in these, an electric field would suffice to achieve magnetic data storage. Researchers at PSI have now made such a material suitable for computer operating temperatures.

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17 October 2018
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Why the Little Ice Age ended in the middle of the 19th century

Media Releases Energy and Environment Enviroment

In the first half of the 19th century, a series of large volcanic eruptions in the tropics led to a temporary global cooling of Earth's climate. That Alpine glaciers grew and subsequently receded again during the final phase of the so-called Little Ice Age was due to a natural process. This has now been proven by PSI researchers on the basis of ice cores.

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15 October 2018
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30 years Paul Scherrer Institute PSI

Miscellaneous

Ceremony with invited guests from politics, business and sciencePSI held its 30 Years of PSI ceremony. The PSI showed guests what it has achieved over the past three decades, with results that could be of benefit to everyone in Switzerland.

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11 October 2018

Licence agreement with Swiss pharma firm for development of a cancer drug

Medical Science Human Health Radiopharmacy Industrial co-operation

A radioactive agent, developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI to fight an especially malignant form of thyroid cancer, has the potential to become a blockbuster drug. Due to its structure, it might also be able to dock onto cells of other tumours and destroy them with its radiation. The Lausanne-based biopharmaceutical company Debiopharm wants to further develop the PSI agent to the point where it is approved as a drug. Debiopharm and PSI have now created the contractual basis for this.

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