TRAPPIST-1’s 7 Rocky Planets May Be Made of Similar Stuff

The Universities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich have made astonishing discoveries about the composition of the planets of the star TRAPPIST-1.

For years, the metal nanoparticles used in catalysts have been getting smaller and smaller. Now, a research team at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria have shown that everything is suddenly different when you arrive at the smallest possible size: a single atom.

Nearly half of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) staff are likely to meet the threshold for PTSD, severe anxiety or problem drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by UCL and King's College London researchers.

Physicists from Göttingen first to succeed in filming a phase transition with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution

Patients' chances of survival after cancer surgery is strongly linked with the standard of post-operation hospital care, a major international study suggests.

Why are the planets of the inner Solar System dry and rocky, but the outer ones are not? An international team of researchers with participation of the University of Zurich discovered that a two-step formation process of the planets can explain the chronology and split in volatiles like water and isotope content of the inner and outer Solar System.