Archive Mathematics and Natural Sciences 2016

Article list Mathematics and Natural Sciences

• 27.10.2016 Astrophysics

  How giant planets form

  Young giant planets are born from gas and dust. Researchers of ETH Zürich and UZH simulated different scenarios relying on the computing power of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to find out how they exactly form and evolve.

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• 15.09.2016 UZH Digital Society Initiative

  «This child is going to make us very proud.»

  Prominent figures from business and politics gathered in the main lecture hall to kick off the UZH Digital Society Initiative. It’s designed as a vehicle to enable the University to take a leading role in digital transformation.

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• 14.03.2016 Data Analysis

  Cool Calculation

  Marcin Chrząszcz, a physicist who does research into exotic elementary particles at CERN, organized a competition for data scientists. The best solutions were recently presented at the UZH Department of Physics.

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• 26.02.2016 New Publication Platform

  Galileo Would Have Loved It!

  It often takes years before individual discoveries are published. A new publication platform called Matters, developed at UZH, enables researchers to publish interim findings more quickly than used to be possible. The new platform was presented yesterday.

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• 19.02.2016 Pharmacology

  Breaking the vicious circle of heart failure

  In patients with heart failure, the pumping power of the heart decreases in a fatal downward spiral. Pharmacologists at the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich have now succeeded in breaking this vicious circle in the mouse model. Their approach could one day also benefit humans.

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• 15.02.2016 Physics

  Research into Gravitational Waves Gets a Boost

  Last week researchers on the LIGO project were able to detect the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein. Philippe Jetzer, Professor of Physics at UZH, is involved in LISA, the European project that aims to measure gravitational waves in space. UZH News asked him about the significance of this discovery.

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