With its globally unique research infrastructure, PSI offers unrivalled opportunities for cutting-edge national and international research.
The main areas of research at PSI
Recent highlights from our research
Neutrons don’t disappear into the mirror world
Do mirror particles exist for all elementary particles? PSI researchers have succeeded in largely ruling out this hypothesis in particle physics – with unprecedented experimental precision.
Combating cancer growth
Researchers at PSI and the University of Zurich have determined the mechanism behind an important signalling protein that spins out of control in certain types of cancer. This paves the way for new approaches to cancer treatment.
Fertiliser from the neighbourhood
A PSI study shows where small plants could produce ammonia for fertiliser in a low-carbon way in the future.
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Find out more about our large-scale research facilities and other research centres.
Research Centers & Labs
Our research and service centres conduct internationally recognised cutting-edge research in the natural and engineering sciences and make highly complex large research facilities available to science and industry for their own research projects.
Scientific Highlights from our Centers
34th international workshop on VERTEX detectors in Switzerland
The 34th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors is organised jointly by PSI, UZH and ETHZ in Stoos, Switzerland.
Thermodynamic Evidence for Pressure-Driven Evolution towards Weak-Coupling Superconductivity in Pb
The thermodynamic critical field Bc provides direct access to the superconducting condensation energy, yet its pressure dependence has been studied much less extensively than that of the transition temperature. Here, muon-spin-rotation relaxation measurements ...
Good things come in threes - Nitrous oxide decomposition on Rh-Ce-Co oxide
ME-XAS reveals a synergic function between Rh oxide species and Co3O4 mediated by Ce that catalyses low temperature N2O decomposition.
