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Image of the activties during the National Future Day 2025
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National Future Day 2025 – A day full of energy, light, and nanostructures

Today, on the National Future Day, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI), the Department of Physics and the Basel Quantum Center (BQC) opened the doors to 20 girls aged 10 to 13. A varied program offered the participants exciting insights…

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Graduation ceremony of the Nanoscience Master’s program 2025

Last Friday, the graduation ceremony of the Nanoscience Master’s program 2025 took place at the Basel Papiermühle – a festive and joyful occasion where the graduates received their well-earned diplomas and celebrated their achievements…

Image with participants of the meeting
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Symposium “Bottom-up Strategies for Bio-functional Systems” in Basel

On November 3, the one-day symposium “Bottom-up Strategies for Bio-functional Systems” took place at the Biozentrum in Basel. The group of Prof. Cornelia Palivan had organized the event and it was supported by the Swiss Nanoscience…

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Fight for survival – Our contribution to the Global Science Film Festival 2025

Invisible to the naked eye, but omnipresent: bacteria live in the soil, in water – and even inside us. Many are essential to life, and some possess sophisticated weapons to fight microscopic rivals. In our short film, researchers from the…

Collage with images of the Startup-Workshop
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«From Lab to Startup» – Startup spirit among our doctoral students

How do you turn your own research into a compelling startup concept and convince potential investors with a pitch? SNI doctoral students took their first steps on this path in mid-October during the two-day startup workshop “From Lab to…

Collage with images of the NanoTec Apero 2025
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NanoTec Apéro at Straumann in Basel

Yesterday, this year's NanoTec Apéro took place at our long-standing industrial partner Straumann Institut AG in Basel. First, Dr. Raphael Wagner, a former Nano student and now head of the Surface Competence Center at Institut Straumann,…

Illustration of an anchored metalloenzyme and membrane domains of different sizes
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Controlled phase separation in membranes

Cell membranes consist of a mixture of different lipids and proteins. These are not always evenly distributed. Under certain conditions, similar lipids and proteins can accumulate laterally in small areas within the membrane. This phase…

[Translate to English:] Bilder, welche den Bericht des SRF über MINT unterwegs repräsentieren.
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SRF feature about "MINT on the move"

Our outreach team had some very special guests on board the “MINT on the move” train yesterday! SRF (Swiss Radio and Television) was on board and reported on our activities to promote STEM subjects on the Südostbahn (SOB) train. In the…

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MINT on the move: Science on a train trip – together with SOB

On October 8 and 9, we will once again be bringing exciting experiments directly to the train – from Basel to Göschenen and back again.It's free - all you need is a train ticket! 📍 Basel SBB 08:03 → Göschenen 10:50 📍 Göschenen 11:09 →…

Impressionen vom Annual Meeting 2025
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Annual Meeting 2025

We are delighted to kick off this year’s Annual Meeting, taking place for the third time in Meisterschwanden on the beautiful Lake Hallwil. Over the next two days, more than 80 participants will enjoy a rich program full of science,…

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