23.03.21 – The LHCb collaboration, which includes EPFL scientists, has just released an update of a measurement which is one of the very few at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consistently hinting at a deviation from the theoretical expectations. This … Continue reading →
23.03.21 – EPFL will soon be home to a European hub for high-performance computing focused on fusion power – a potential source of clean, risk-free energy. As part of this effort, EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center will lead a campus-wide, cross-disciplinary … Continue reading →
22.03.21 – EPFL scientists have developed a new dye for solar cells that enables high power-conversion efficiency while being simple and cheap to make. The dye also works exceptionally well under low-light conditions, which is key for self- and low-powered … Continue reading →
22.03.21 – EPFL Professor and founding director of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Majed Chergui, has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. The European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) is a non-profit, non-governmental and independent organization … Continue reading →
18.03.21 – Scientists at EPFL and the University of Geneva have combined two powerful, cutting-edge techniques to uncover the physics behind an exotic phase transition that turns a metal into an insulator. The materials they looked at are rare-earth nickelates, … Continue reading →
16.03.21 – Professor Clément Hongler and his team from the Chair of Statistical Field Theory found a new way of understanding Artificial Neural Networks. Their 2018 paper has gathered a lot of attention from the scientific community and is now … Continue reading →
16.03.21 – A newly launched podcast “Are You Sure?” features interviews, in English and in French, with EPFL researchers from different domains as they wrestle with the important question of what it means to be uncertain in science, as well … Continue reading →
15.03.21 – Maxim Karpov, a researcher at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences, has been awarded the MDPI Best PhD Thesis Award in Physics for his work on microresonator-based optical frequency combs. of over 200 broad-scope, open-access journals. It is the … Continue reading →
05.03.21 – At its meeting of 3-4 March 2021, the ETH Board has promoted Jeremy Luterbacher to Associate Professor and awarded the title of Adjunct Professor to three researchers of the School of Basic Sciences (SB). © 2021 EPFL Professor … Continue reading →
03.03.21 – Chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a graphene filter for carbon capture that surpasses the efficiency of commercial capture technologies, and can reduce the cost carbon capture down to $30 per ton of carbon dioxide. One of the … Continue reading →