Scientists used neutrons to investigate how hybrid implants made of magnesium and titanium change inside the body. The findings are important for developing better implants. © Adobe Stock
Scientists used neutrons to investigate how hybrid implants made of magnesium and titanium change inside the body. The findings are important for developing better implants. © Adobe Stock
23.02.2026
•Health Innovation
•5 min

How hydrogen affects titanium implants

Researchers use Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ to study how medical implants change inside the body.

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Im Treppenhaus des Park Innovaare unterhalten sich Lea Caminada, Leiterin der Forschungsruppe für Hochenergiephysik am Zentrum für Neutronen- und Myonenforschung des PSI, und Wolfram Erdmann, Projektleiter des europaweiten Konsortiums, das einen bedeutenden Teil des nächsten CMS-Detektors am CERN baut.
In the stairwell of Park Innovaare, Lea Caminada, head of the High Energy Particle Physics group at the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, is in conversation with Wolfram Erdmann, project leader of the Europe-wide consortium, which is building a significant part of the next CMS detector at CERN. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
04.02.2026
•Future Technologies
•10 min

One thousand modules for CERN

At CERN near Geneva, tiny particles with extremely high energies are blasted at each other to answer big questions about the universe. The detectors that observe the collisions of these particles require regular upgrades. Lea Caminada and her High Energy Particle Physics research group at PSI play an important role in this quest.

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30.01.2026
•Future Technologies
•6 min

Important funding for muon research

PSI gets an NCCR: The Muoniverse project will further expand research on the beamlines for elementary particles called muons – at the world’s leading facility for muon beams. 

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Thomas Prokscha
Thomas Prokscha is interim head of the Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
27.01.2026
•Large research facilities
•11 min

“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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The PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences uses neutrons and muons to explore and understand matter and materials.

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Zurab Guguchia
•Fundamentals of Nature

Zurab Guguchia awarded the ICSM2026 International Career (Lifetime) Achievement Award on Superconductivity

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Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (CNM/LTP) was appointed as adjunct professor for experimental elementary particle physics at the University of Basel, on April 21, 2026. 

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•Large research facilities

Vanishing ordered moment in the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuNdO2

SINQ SμS

The steady decline of neutron imaging (NI) facilities—driven in part by the shutdown of several research reactors—has increased the need to maximize the use of existing infrastructure. In this context, a collaborative effort between PSI-CNM, PSI-NES, and EPFL-LRS has led to the development ...

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•Large research facilities

Collaborative Development of a New Neutron Imaging Beamline at the Zero-Power CROCUS Reactor

SINQ

The steady decline of neutron imaging (NI) facilities—driven in part by the shutdown of several research reactors—has increased the need to maximize the use of existing infrastructure. In this context, a collaborative effort between PSI-CNM, PSI-NES, and EPFL-LRS has led to the development ...

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•Large research facilities

Emergence of a Fluctuating Ground State in Y-Kapellasite under Pressure

SμS

Y-kapellasite [Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8], which hosts an original anisotropic kagome sublattice, is a promising candidate for studying elusive and complex correlated physics. It exhibits a theoretically predicted in-plane (1/3; 1/3) magnetic order, but its magnetic interaction values place it close to a phase boundary to a spin liquid state ... 

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Neutron scattering techniques are highly versatile and powerful tools for studying the structure and dynamics of condensed matter. A wide scope of problems, ranging from fundamental to solid state physics and chemistry, and from materials science to biology, medicine and environmental science, can be investigated with neutrons. In addition to scattering, non-diffractive methods like imaging techniques allows for non-destructive inspection of materials and components, providing information on their internal structure, composition, and integrity with growing relevance also for industrial applications.
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