FRONTIER RESEARCH
Science & Frontier Research.
The Alps' scientific infrastructure punches far above the region's size: a 27-kilometre particle collider under the Franco-Swiss border, a campus of giant probes in the Aare valley, and a science centre that turns physics into a family day out. What unites them is a conviction that curiosity, given serious instruments and open access, compounds into progress.
This topic covers the frontier instruments themselves — how they work, what they cost, who runs them — and the public institutions that translate science for everyone else.
- Large-scale research facilities: colliders, synchrotrons, free-electron lasers, neutron sources
- The institutions of the ETH Domain and international laboratories
- Public engagement with science: museums, science centres, education
- How big science is organised, funded and opened to the world
SWITZERLAND · SCIENCE & FRONTIER RESEARCH
CERN
The laboratory where particles collide — and where the web was born
SWITZERLAND · SCIENCE & FRONTIER RESEARCH
Paul Scherrer Institute
Giant machines that make the invisible visible
SWITZERLAND · SCIENCE & FRONTIER RESEARCH
Technorama
The museum where you are allowed to touch everything