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The “Swiss Young Physicists' Tournament” is a physics competition for young physics enthusiasts from all over Switzerland. Alisa Miloglyadova was recently one of them and, together with the physics teacher Patrik Weber, is now leading a group of twenty new participants to the SYPT Physics Week on the Hönggerberg campus of ETH Zurich. There, scientists offer interested parties a broad insight into the Department of Physics.

Last Sunday night, the Solar Orbiter satellite has been launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the mission of capturing unprecedented images of the Sun and providing novel insight into its behaviour. ETH physics professor Louise Harra has been involved over two decades throughout all stages of the project.

A concept known as ‘fragile topology’ has been puzzling physicists ever since it emerged two years ago. Two teams, one led by ETH physicists, have now developed a comprehensive theoretical and experimental framework to pin down the essence of the concept — and establish ways how to potentially harness it in applications.