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The financing of the upcoming ERI Dispatch was approved in parliament. This will enable a pioneering upgrade project to be realised at PSI: IMPACT. 🚀
IMPACT is a joint project of PSI @paul.scherrer…
❄️ Let it snow! ❄️ This third Advent Sunday, we’re sharing the joy of discovery with a festive #SciencePic!
This intricate snowflake design was created using a laser to modify the magnetic…
After 22 years of brilliant science, at 8am on the 30th of September 2023, the SLS went into temporary shutdown.🛑 As the SLS 2.0 upgrade progresses, beamline scientist Grigory Smolentsev tells us how…
🎅 Santa's workshop? Not quite — this #SciencePic features our very own festive scientists at the MUSE Calorimetry Detector, all decked out for this second Advent Sunday!
MUSE, short for the MUon…
This #SciencePic 📸 captures the #collaboration and #mentorship between two female scientists, Juliana Bruneli Falqueto and her mentor, Emiliana Fabbri , during their first joint beamtime at the…
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The day draws attention to the diversity, rights and self-determination of people with different abilities and highlights the importance of an…
Imagine you're playing Minecraft 🎮, but instead of building castles or exploring caves, you're observing bubbles forming in porous deposits on the fuel rods of a nuclear reactor. This isn't just a…
Let the countdown to Christmas begin with a sprinkle of science! ❄️
🎄✨ Resembling wintery pine trees, this #SciencePic reveals the intricate branching patterns on the surface of the van der Waals…
📽 Video update on SLS 2.0 - The installation of the last arc of the #SwissLightSource #SLS was marked by 👏 applause, celebrating this significant milestone of the SLS 2.0 modernization project!
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As the SLS 2.0 upgrade progresses, beamline scientist Federica Marone tells us what this means for X-ray tomography and why she can’t wait for the new light.
At the TOMCAT beamline, X-ray…
Did you guess right? Emiliana is at the #SwissLightSource #SLS at the new Debye beamline! 💡
She plans on using the combination of X-ray absorption spectroscopy and diffraction that will be…
How do you measure radioactivity from the air? 🛫
With a high-tech detector and a Swiss Army Super Puma helicopter 🚁. With this equipment, the NEOC, in collaboration with the PSI, flies over…
Guess where Emiliana is! 🤔 She's at one of our large research facilities… but can you figure out which one? Let us know your guesses in the comments and stay tuned for the reveal! 👀
Our “Where Am I…
In this #SciencePic, we take a detailed look at an X-ray lens under a light microscope 🔬.
This unique type of lens, known as an X-ray condensing beamshaper, was designed and fabricated by the X-ray…
With the SLS 2.0 upgrade at PSI, experiments at the #SwissLightSource #SLS will achieve up to 1,000x the previous performance level 📈, resulting in a substantial increase in data production 💾.
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Gebhard Schertler and PSI proudly announce the 20th International Conference on Retinal Proteins (ICRP 2024), the premier gathering for experts in #retinal #protein science, on 17–21 November 2024 in…
✨🔬 Noch ein paar Eindrücke vom heutigen #NationalerZukunftstag am PSI! Some more impressions from today’s #NationalZukunftstag at PSI! 👩🏽🔬👨🔬
✨🔬 Spannende Momente vom #NationalZukunftstag am PSI! 👩🏽🔬👨🔬
Heute war die nächste Generation von Fachkräften am PSI und hat einen unvergesslichen #FutureDay #Zukunftstag erlebt!
Von der Arbeit…
As the SLS 2.0 upgrade progresses, Thorsten Schmitt shares his excitement about deeper investigations into quantum materials.
With the increased brightness of SLS 2.0, his team will be able to…
PSI researchers, led by Marco Ranocchiari and Jörg Roth, want to facilitate the industrial- production of sustainable aviation fuel (#SAF) to help the #aviation industry ✈️ achieve carbon neutrality…
🕰️A race against time.
As a result of #climate #change, glaciers 🧊are rapidly disappearing worldwide.
As part of an SNF project, PSI scientists Theo Jenk, Michelle Worek, and Margit…
✨ …and just like that - the last arc is in the tunnel of the Swiss Light Source SLS! ✨
The SLS is currently undergoing a major modernisation programme that will significantly increase the density…
🚀 The European Space Agency - ESA is expanding its collaborative efforts with Swiss innovators through the newly established European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (#ESDI). As part of the ESA…
🔬 Honoring 60 Years of PSI’s Hotlab – A Milestone in Swiss Nuclear Technology 🔬
Today marks exactly 60 years since the Swiss Federal Institute for Reactor Research (EIR) applied for a license to…
Using muon spin rotation at the #SwissMuonSource #SS, researchers at PSI Paul Scherrer Institute have detected an intriguing quantum phenomena in a Kagome superconductor at a record temperature high…
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