Molecular Device Turns Invisible Infrared Into Visible Light
Researchers at EPFL, China, Spain and the Netherlands have built a micro-device that uses vibrating molecules to transform invisible mid-infrared light into visible light. The…
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Integrated Photonics Meets Electron Microscopy in Unconventional Collaboration
The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image molecular structures at the atomic scale by using electrons instead of light, and has revolutionized materials science and…
Have You Ever Wanted To Explore Outer-Space? Now You Can!
Explore the Universe With Virtual Reality Using Powerful, Open-Source Software VIRUP Have you ever wanted to explore outer-space? Now you can, without leaving Earth, thanks…
Our Brains Have a “Fingerprint” Too – But It Constantly Changes in Time
“I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It’s been my whole life for five years now,” says Enrico Amico, a…
Topological Circuits That Force Photons To Never Bounce Back
EPFL scientists have developed a topology-based method that forces microwave photons to travel along a path, despite unprecedented levels of disorder and obstacles on their…
Healthcare of the Future: A Cryptography Game-Changer for Biomedical Research at Scale
Predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory medicine, known as P4, is the healthcare of the future. To both accelerate its adoption and maximize its potential, clinical…
War in the Gut: How Microbes in the Human Gut Resist the Cholera Bacterium
Cholera is still an enormous problem. An acute diarrheal disease, there have been seven major pandemics in the last two hundred years. According to the WHO,…
A Tool To Interrogate a New Class of Reactive Electrophile Drugs
In 2014, the European Medicines Agency approved the drug Tecfidera for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of people…
A New Approach for Recycling Plastics
Each human being uses, on average, 30 kg of plastic per year. Given that global life expectancy currently stands at approximately 70 years, each person…
Water and Quantum Magnets Share Critical Physics – May Have Consequences for Quantum Computing
Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these “phase transitions” aren’t smooth, but their discontinuous nature…
How Science Works: Uncertainty Spurs Scientific Progress
Citizens and scientists have two very different ways of reasoning. While citizens find comfort in certainty, scientists need to continually challenge the facts. Is it…
Breakthrough in Light-Matter Interactions Propels Quantum Technologies Forward
Physicists at EPFL have found a way to get photons to interact with pairs of atoms for the first time. The breakthrough is important for…
Lung Cancer: Breakthrough Offers Hope for Increasing Immunotherapy Efficacy
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death. Current treatments employ immunotherapy, often in combination with chemotherapy, but benefits to patients remain slight. In…
Lung Cancer Resistance: The Key Is Glucose Metabolism
Cancers are not only made of tumor cells. In fact, as they grow, they develop an entire cellular ecosystem within and around them. This “tumor…
Machine Learning Using Collective Knowledge to Crack the Oxidation States of Crystal Structures
Chemical elements make up pretty much everything in the physical world. As of 2016, we know of 118 elements, all of which can be found…
Giant Nonlinearity of UV Hybrid Light-Matter States With a Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Waveguide
The field of ultrafast nonlinear photonics has now become the focus of numerous studies, as it enables a host of applications in advanced on-chip spectroscopy…
Green Light on Gold Atoms: Unexpected Findings From Metallic Nano-Antennas That Concentrate Light
Because individual atoms or molecules are 100 to 1000 times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, it is notoriously difficult to collect information about…
Climate Change Resilience: Northern Red Sea Corals Pass Heat Stress Test With Flying Colors
EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals in the Gulf of Aqaba, along with their symbiotic algae and bacteria, resist higher temperatures particularly well….
