A Fundamental New Law Unchains Fusion Energy
Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has been foundational to plasma and fusion research for…
Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has been foundational to plasma and fusion research for…
A Digital Twin of Drosophila “We used two kinds of data to build NeuroMechFly,” says Professor Pavan Ramdya at the School of Life Sciences at…
Even today, clean water is a privilege for many people across the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 1.8 billion people…
Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind have jointly developed a new method for controlling plasma configurations for use in nuclear fusion research. EPFL’s…
As the world’s energy demands increase, so does our consumption of fossil fuels. The result is a massive rise in greenhouse gases emissions with severely…
Engineers at EPFL have developed a method for reading several qubits – the smallest unit of quantum data – at the same time. Their method…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Each human being uses, on average, 30 kg (66 pounds) of plastic per year. Given that global life expectancy currently stands at approximately 70 years,…
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…
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…
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…