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At a ceremony in Los Angeles on 5 April, the four major experimental collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – were awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

A team led by researchers at ETH Zurich's Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics studied what insights can be gained from a 'no life detected' scenario in future exoplanet surveys.

An interview with D-PHYS alumnus Dr Leonardo Facheris, R&D Engineer at Sensirion.

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that makes it easier to study interactions between electrons in a material. Using a moiré material consisting of twisted atomic layers they created an artificial crystal lattice in a neighbouring material.  

The researcher received the award for his leading work on a loophole-free Bell test with superconducting circuits and for his enthusiasm for science communication.

A biologist, a neuroscientist, a materials scientist and a physicist have each been awarded one of the prestigious grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The latest development on the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory brings a step closer the prospect of new insights into some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe.

Wenchao Xu works on arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that combine two atomic species in a way that offers a new platform for advancing quantum science and technology.

As the speaker at this year's Paul Bernays Lectures, Michel Devoret discussed quantum information processing with superconducting circuits – and took the time to find out about the variety of research activities in the physics department, too.