News EPFL

Stick to Science Initiative: Call for open collaboration

Published:08.02.22 — Research and Innovation community urges European leaders to take action on Horizon Europe.

New implant offers promise for the paralyzed

Published:07.02.22 — A system developed by Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch now enables patients with a complete spinal cord injury to stand, walk and even perform recreational activities like swimming, cycling and canoeing. 

Making installed train windows permeable to mobile-phone signals

Published:07.02.22 — EPFL spin-off nu glass has successfully tested a portable system that makes the window panes on railcars permeable to mobile communications. This can bring significant environmental and cost benefits to railway companies and mobile-phone operators, since they’ll no longer have to install signal boosters to provide wireless connectivity for passengers.

“How we question the ethics of AI is a very political issue”

Published:04.02.22 — In advance of the AI & Ethics Week conference, co-organized by EPFL’s College of Humanities and Center for Digital Trust, ethics expert Johan Rochel talks about the importance of international and cross-sector debate on the impacts of artificial intelligence.

EPFL introduces a new excellence program for PhD students

Published:04.02.22 — This spring, the new EPFL PhD Excellence Programme will get under way. There is space for 45 PhD students, and applications are being accepted now.

Novel printing process switches materials from black to transparent

Published:03.02.22 — EPFL researchers have developed a new type of printing process that involves removing material rather than depositing it. Their method could be particularly useful for printing banknotes and ID documents, for example.

Localis-rex: a new tool for studying electrophile signaling

Published:01.02.22 — A team of researchers led by Professor Yimon Aye at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has developed a new screening method to explore an important biological process known as electrophile signaling.