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Are you a journalist and do you have general questions about PSI?
In our rubric "fascinating research" we explain PSI's research cosmos in a comprehensible and detailed manner.
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5 March 2021
Tom Kober

Switzerland's energy transition

Media Releases Energy and Environment

Can Switzerland, as planned, reduce its CO2 emissions to zero by 2050? What is needed to achieve this? What could it cost?

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27 January 2021
Aldo Antognini

Size of helium nucleus measured more precisely than ever before

Media Releases Matter and Material Particle physics Research with muons CHRISP

In experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, an international research collaboration has measured the radius of the atomic nucleus of helium five times more precisely than ever before. The new value can be used to test fundamental physical theories.

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21 December 2020
Christian Rüegg

PSI equips the Swiss Light Source SLS for the future

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities SLS 2.0

Green light for SLS 2.0: The planned upgrade of the Swiss Light Source SLS can proceed; the funding is provided for within the framework of the ERI Dispatch for 2021-2024, which has been approved.

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18 November 2020
Kaspar Dällenbach

Which particulate air pollution poses the greatest health risk?

Media Releases Energy and Environment Human Health Enviroment

The composition of particulate matter can influence its harmfulness to human health just as much as the amount, PSI researchers show in a newly published study. Experiments and computational modelling showed that in Europe high concentrations of particulate matter harmful to human health occur mainly in metropolitan areas.

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5 November 2020
Teaser ERC Grant

A new generation of optogenetic tools for research and medicine

Media Releases Biology

The European Research Council (ERC) is funding an interdisciplinary collaborative project with 10 million euros for the structural and biophysical analysis of selected photoreceptors and their development into "OptoGPCRs", light-controlled molecular switches with a wide range of applications in biology and medicine.

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28 September 2020
Serena Psoroulas mit der Versuchsanordnung in der Gantry 1

New technique for ultrafast tumour therapy

Media Releases Human Health Medical Science Proton Therapy

For the first time, researchers at the Centre for Proton Therapy at PSI have tested ultrafast, high-dose irradiation with protons. The new, experimental FLASH technique could revolutionise radiation therapy for cancer.

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23 September 2020
Skyrmionen

Nanostructures with a unique property

Media Releases Research Using Neutrons Matter and Material

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified special nano-vortices in a material: antiferromagnetic skyrmions.

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22 September 2020
Thorsten Schmitt (links) und Milan Radovic an ihrer Experimentierstation an der Synchrotron Lichtquelle Schweiz SLS.

Customising an electronic material

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Matter and Material

PSI scientists have investigated a material that could be suitable for future data storage applications. They have manipulated the crystalline structure of their sample while measuring how this affects the material’s magnetic and electronic properties.

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21 September 2020
PSI-Forscher Vitaly Sushkevich (links) und Manoj Ravi, Doktorand der ETH Zürich, im PSI-Labor.

Better catalysts for a sustainable bioeconomy

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Matter and Material

Zeolites are already indispensable additives in the chemical industry – researchers from PSI and ETH Zurich suggest ways to make them still more efficient.

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11 September 2020
Expeditionsleiterin Margit Schwikowski mit einem Eisbohrkern

The cold memory of the earth

Media Releases Energy and Environment

Within the framework of an international project, researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI are helping to save a valuable environmental and climatic archive. During an expedition 4,000 metres above sea level on Grand Combin in the Alps, they are drilling ice cores from melting glaciers to preserve them in Antarctica.

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5232 — Das Magazin des Paul Scherrer Instituts

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