Tag: EPFL

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most widely used plastics today. PET bottles are ubiquitous in our day-to-day lives–one has to look around...

EPFL scientists have recently come up with a next-generation microscope that can show live cells function and react under various experimental conditions. Called as...

Two EPFL Master’s in Environmental Engineering students adapted a system typically used to concentrate fruit juice and tested it out at the Yverdon-les-Bains wastewater treatment plant in Vaud.

Researchers at Blue Brain have discovered that dendrites, the neuron’s tree-like receptors, work together – dynamically and depending on the workload – for learning. The findings further our understanding of how we think and may inspire new algorithms for artificial intelligence.

Studying quantum systems made of many particles, scientists primarily need to simulate them. This should be possible by understanding the conditions depicting their internal...

Transplanted tissue regularly goes under attack from the body's immune system and struggles to survive in the hostile host environment. This has resulted in...

Currently, the most active electrocatalysts for the conversion of CO2 to CO are gold-based nanomaterials, whereas non–precious metal catalysts have shown low to modest...

Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cell growth and tissue invasion. Because cancer initiation seems to depend on a series of...

Water distinguishes our planet compared to all the others we know about. While the global supply of available freshwater is more than adequate to...