Bioprinting Complex Living Tissue in Just a Few Seconds [Video]
Researchers from EPFL and the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands have developed an extremely fast optical method for sculpting complex shapes in stem-cell-laden…
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Algorithmic Detection of Outside Influences on the Media
EPFL researchers recently developed an algorithm that maps out the media landscape and reveals biases and hidden influences in the news industry. News consumers may…
Scientists Develop New Material That Cleans and Splits Water
Researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering have developed a photocatalytic system based on a material in the class of metal-organic frameworks. The…
Scientists Identify Over 1,000 New 2D Materials for Nanotech
A team from EPFL and NCCR Marvel has identified more than 1,000 materials with a particularly interesting 2D structure. Their research, which made the cover…
Guanidinium Helps Stabilizes Perovskite Solar Cells
Incorporating guanidinium into perovskite solar cells stabilizes their efficiency at 19% for 1000 hours under full-sunlight testing conditions. The study, carried out by EPFL, is…
Miniature System Can Encapsulate and Analyze Biomarkers in Sweat
EPFL researchers have teamed up with startup Xsensio to develop a tiny, fully portable system that can encapsulate and analyze biomarkers in a person’s sweat….
EPFL Sheds New Light on the Fundamental Mechanisms of Heat Dissipation in Graphene
Scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne shed new light on the fundamental mechanisms of heat dissipation in graphene and other two-dimensional materials. In the…
Certain Peptides Exposed to UV Radiation Transition to More Reactive Triplet Quantum States
New research shows that certain peptides degrade under UV light by first passing through a triplet quantum state, a reactive arrangement that can cause greater…
Scientists Demonstrate Experimentally that SmB6 is a Topological Insulator
An international team of scientists has demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, that SmB6 is indeed a topological insulator. Spintronics is an emerging field of…
Scientists Generate Magnetic Field by Using Heat Instead of Electricity
In a newly published study, EPFL scientists have for the first time predicted and experimentally verified the existence of the Magnetic Seebeck Effect. EPFL scientists…
“Cheetah-Cub Robot” Runs Like a Cat
In this short video, researchers from EPFL’s Biorobotics Laboratory reveal a small-size quadruped prototype robot, which they call a “cheetah-cub robot.” Thanks to its legs,…
Researchers Reveal the Cause of LED Efficiency Droop
A team of researchers have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes LEDs to be less efficient at high drive currents. Researchers at…
EPFL Creates Memory Cell by Combining Molybdenite and Graphene
EPFL scientists have combined monolayer MoS2 with graphene to build a flash memory prototype capable of information storage. EPFL scientists have combined two materials with…
European Extremely Large Telescope Project Underway
Officially underway and set to be built at the summit of a mountain in the Atacama desert, the European Extremely Large Telescope will be sensitive…
CleanSpace One Satellite Will Remove Space Debris
CleanSpace One, developed by the Swiss Space Center at EPFL, is a project to develop and build the first group of satellites that will remove…
Researchers Demonstrate a Quantum Connection Between Light and Mechanics
By using a laser to illuminate an object, physicists in the EPFL’s Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurement have shown that it is possible to…
