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Scientists at the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, to which ETH physicists are making central contributions, submitted their 1,000th paper — and this is just the beginning.

ETH researchers are normally found in the lab. "ETH Globe" asked researchers from the Department of Physics what it’s like working from home.

How can we protect communications against 'eavesdropping' if we don’t trust the devices used in the process? This is one of the main questions in quantum-cryptography research. Researchers at the University of Basel and ETH Zurich have now developed the theoretical groundwork for a communication protocol that guarantees one hundred percent privacy.

METIS, the powerful imager and spectrograph for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has passed its Preliminary Design Review. ETH researchers have leading roles in the project and provide a major hardware contribution.

Combined theoretical and experimental work unveils a novel mechanism through which criticality emerges in quasiperiodic structures — a finding that provides unique insight into the physics on the middle ground between order and disorder.