EPFL
Environment
Climate change will disrupt existing energy systems
A simulation method to reduce the adverse influences due to climate-related uncertainties in the energy sector and guarantee robust operation of energy infrastructure during extreme climate events.
3D Printing
A new, high-precision method for 3D-printing small, soft objects
The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of fields, including 3D bioprinting.
Science
Scientists unveiled new quasiparticle in the room temperature
How the excitons in the perovskite react to the presence of a high charge carrier density?
Science
How heat spreads within crystalline materials?
A novel formulation to explain heat propagation.
Invention
Assessing Switzerland’s solar power potential
What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?
Health
New antiviral materials made using sugar
This compound could also be effective against new emerging viruses such as the recent coronavirus currently of concern in China.
Health
Could depression be linked to our cells’ metabolism?
EPFL researchers have discovered a compound that stimulates brain-cell metabolism and reduces signs of depression in mice. The next step will be to test their findings on humans.
Health
Why individuals differ in the ability to fight back gut infections?
This difference may be explained by genetic factors.
Space
New precise measurement of the universe’s expansion rate
It strengthens the call for new physics.
Environment
Fingerprint of climate change detected in daily weather
Climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global level.