06.05.20 – EPFL chemists have developed sponges to capture various target substances, like gold, mercury and lead, dissolved in solution. The sponges are actually porous crystals called metal organic frameworks, and now one exists for capturing toxic hexavalent chromium from … Continue reading →
29.04.20 – In the paper “Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Oscillator to Its Zero-Point Energy”, just published in the peer-reviewed journal Physical Review Letters, and selected as Editor’s suggestions, scientists at EPFL and IBM Research Europe report experiments in which … Continue reading →
24.04.20 – Solitons in optical microresonators are frequently used to generate frequency combs, which have found applications in sensing, telecommunication, and metrology. Now, scientists at EPFL have discovered a novel state of colliding solitons, which reveals interesting properties that can … Continue reading →
21.04.20 – Using the famous computer game Minecraft, Mathematicians at EPFL have developed a video game around Eulerian Cycles. It is now freely available online to everyone. Mathematician David Strütt, a scientific collaborator at EPFL, worked for four months to … Continue reading →
20.04.20 – Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators. These microwave signals, as well as their optical carriers, could be used in radars, satellite communications and future 5G wireless networks. In our information society, … Continue reading →
20.04.20 – The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will be the biggest radio telescope ever built. Thanks to this ambitious tool, some of the universe’s greatest mysteries will be resolved. EPFL became a member of the SKA Organisation (SKAO) beginning … Continue reading →
09.04.20 – EPFL Emeritus Professor János Pach is one of the 185 winners of the ERC’s annual Advanced Grant competition. He is now at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. János Pach … Continue reading →
06.04.20 – Edoardo Baldini, a former PhD student with Professors Majed Chergui and Fabrizio Carbone, has won the 2020 PHYS Division Young Investigator Awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS). Each year, the Physical Chemistry Division of the ACS awards … Continue reading →
06.04.20 – EPFL researchers have been working for weeks to help fight the pandemic and mitigate its short- and long-term consequences. Studies are already under way on methods to stem the spread of the virus, diagnose the disease and discover … Continue reading →
25.03.20 – A team of EPFL students has won 2nd place in the 2019 IBM Quantum contest, in the category of Best Paper. The IBM Quantum competition is part of IBM’s commitment to realize the ground-breaking potential of quantum computing, … Continue reading →