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A window on a cold quantum world
At SwissFEL, scientists get a rare glimpse into the quantum states that emerge at extremely low temperatures.
LEAPS AISBL inaugurated in Brussels as formal legal entity
Europe’s leading photon science facilities enter a new phase of strategic coordination.
“We’re pulling out all the stops”
PSI is increasing the intensity of its muon beams a hundredfold. This opens up entirely new possibilities for physics and materials research.
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Together with industry to innovation
A step closer to net-zero aviation
Aviation Fuel from green Methanol has achieved ASTM certification, an important milestone for its use in commercial aviation.
“Fall in love with the problem – not the solution”
Georges Khneysser, Venture Capitalist at Park Innovaare, explains what science-based spin-offs need to understand about market requirements and why trust matters more than the perfect pitch.
PSI and NUKEM Sign Memorandum of Understanding
The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and NUKEM Technologies Engineering Services GmbH (NUKEM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a close research and development collaboration focused on advanced nuclear fuel and reactor technologies.
The people at PSI
“We are responsible for one another”
From chemistry to the PSI fire brigade and the Samaritan movement: how Hanke Nobbenhuis saves lives and trains others to do the same.
Lord of the data
Between physics and software: Stefan Ritt and his work at the limits of measurement. A portrait in data, experiments, and “forbidden” decays.
Where analysis meets flavours
Some see brewing as an art, others as a science – Luc Van Loon combines both these virtues at his brewery. With the nose of a sommelier and the precision of a chemist, the former PSI researcher creates world-class beers.
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