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5 March 2021
Tom Kober

Switzerland's energy transition

Media Releases Energy and Climate Energy transition

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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25 February 2021
Grüne Treibstoffe für den Flugverkehr

Green fuels for aviation

Media Releases Energy and Climate Renewable Energies ESI Platform Energy transition

In a new initiative, PSI and Empa want to jointly develop a process for producing kerosene from renewable resources.

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27 January 2021
Aldo Antognini

Size of helium nucleus measured more precisely than ever before

Media Releases Particle physics Research with muons CHRISP Fundamentals of Nature

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 Climate Health Innovation Environment

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 Health Innovation 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 Future Technologies

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 Future Technologies

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 Future Technologies

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 Climate

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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3 September 2020
swissfel online live

«Forschung online erleben»: Mittendrin statt nur dabei

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Erstmals Live-Rundgang durch eine Grossforschungsanlage per Video-Stream. Am 9. September haben Interessierte exklusiv die Möglichkeit, sich von Experten des PSI durch den neuen Freie-Elektronen-Röntgenlaser SwissFEL führen zu lassen und zu erfahren, welche Rätsel der Materie und der Natur sich damit lösen lassen.

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20 May 2020
Petr Skopintsev (links), Jörg Standfuss (Mitte) und Christopher Milne (rechts) an der Experimentierstation Alvra am Freie-Elektronen-Röntgenlaser SwissFEL

Elucidating the mechanism of a light-driven sodium pump

Media Releases SwissFEL Biology

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in recording a light-driven sodium pump from bacterial cells in action. The findings promise progress in developing new methods in neurobiology. The researchers used the new X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL for their investigations.

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15 May 2020
Christian Bauer und Romain Sacchi

Life cycle assessment of cars – new web tool helps consumers and researchers

Media Releases Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

Decision support for car buyers: Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have developed a web tool called the Carculator that can be used to compare the environmental performance of passenger cars in detail.

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5 May 2020
Tom Kober

Long-term developments of energy pricing and consumption in industry

Media Releases Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, on behalf of a research project funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), have studied how energy consumption by Swiss industry develops depending on energy prices. One result: Price increases for energy usually affect energy consumption only over the long term.

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1 May 2020
CuPCP gives off an intense green glow not only when current is applied, but also under UV light.

In search of the lighting material of the future

Media Releases SwissFEL Future Technologies Large Research Facilities Research Using Synchrotron Light

At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have gained insights into a promising material for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). This new understanding at the atomic level will help to develop new lighting materials that have higher light output and also are cost-efficient to manufacture.

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1 April 2020
Christian Rüegg

Professor Dr. Christian Rüegg new Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute

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The new director of the Paul Scherrer Institute has taken up office today. Christian Rüegg aims to further reinforce the leading role of PSI's large research facilities, and thus promote Switzerland as a location for research.

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13 March 2020
Teaser: Erstmals chemische Reaktionen direkt im Feinstaub nachgewiesen

First-time direct proof of chemical reactions in particulates

Media Releases Environment Energy and Climate

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a new method to analyse particulate matter more precisely than ever before. With its help, they disproved an established doctrine: that molecules in aerosols undergo no further chemical transformations because they are enclosed in other particulate matter.

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28 February 2020
Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg und Georg Bison

Tracking down the mystery of matter

Media Releases Research Using Neutrons Particle physics Fundamentals of Nature

At the ultracold neutron source at PSI, researchers have measured a property of the neutron more precisely than ever before: its electric dipole moment. That's because the search is still on for an explanation of why, after the Big Bang, there was more matter than antimatter.

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24 February 2020
Teaser Donnelly Guizarsicairos

Short film of a magnetic nano-vortex

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

Using a newly developed imaging method, researchers were able to visualise the magnetic structure inside a material with nanoscale resolution. They succeeded in creating a short "film" consisting of seven movie frames that shows, for the first time in 3D, how tiny vortices of the magnetisation deep within a material change over time.

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