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ETH Zurich: Europe’s largest capacity research centrifuge put in place
The most capable geotechnical research centrifuge in Europe is currently being built on the Hönggerberg campus. It will enable researchers to simulate geotechnical structures, such as foundations, dams and tunnels, and the effects of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, landslides, flooding and tsunamis. The centrifuge itself was installed on Wednesday with meticulous precision.
The start of the installation process back in August was a spectacle in itself, with workers taking just under an hour to lift a 245 tonne circular concrete chamber by crane and place it in the ground of the inner courtyard of the HIF building from a height of 25 metres.
Swiss scientists uncover possible cause of mysterious hiking accident in Russia
Dyatlov group preparing the tent for their last night alive. Dyatlov Memorial Foundation
Using topography data and computer simulations, researchers in Switzerland have put forward a plausible explanation for the mysterious deaths of nine hikers in Russia’s Ural Mountains in 1959: an unexpected avalanche.
This content was published on January 30, 2021 - 11:49
January 30, 2021 - 11:49
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Their findings lay to rest some conspiracy theories that have emerged over the years to explain the so-called Dyatlov Pass Incident. Possible explanations for the accident, in which the young hikers received terrible injuries, have ranged from Soviet military experiments to a murderous Yeti.
New research offers a plausible explanation for the Dyatlov Pass Incident, the mysterious 1959 death of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains in what was then the Soviet Union.
In early October 2019, when an unknown caller rang Johan Gaume’s cell phone, he could hardly have imagined that he was about to confront one of the greatest mysteries in Soviet history.
At the other end of the line, a journalist from
The New York Times asked for his expert insight into a tragedy that had occurred 60 years earlier in Russia’s northern Ural Mountains one that has since come to be known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident.