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Rosa Menéndez receives this year's Erna Hamburger Award

Published:08.11.24 — The EPFL Wish Foundation awards this year’s Erna Hamburger Prize to chemist Rosa Menéndez López for her contributions to research, engineering and society. The ceremony will take place on November 11th at the Rolex Learning Center.

Neurotechnology boosts memory without surgery

Published:31.10.24 — EPFL researchers have combined virtual reality, non-invasive brain stimulation and advanced brain imaging techniques to improve spatial navigation in healthy participants. The study is a first step in addressing dementia in an aging population without medication or surgery.

Record broken for the longest Hyperloop trial

Published:05.11.24 — As part of the LIMITLESS project, scientists from EPFL, HEIG-VD and Swisspod have completed the longest-ever vacuum capsule journey in Europe's first operational Hyperloop test facility.

EPFL raises the bar on high-precision research

Published:04.11.24 — Today’s basic research relies on instruments that are so sensitive that they essentially need to be cut off from the outside world. That’s the idea behind the Advanced Science Building (ASB), a future on-campus structure that will accommodate cutting-edge research labs on seven floors, including two underground. It will be built on the site of the Colladon parking lot, with construction starting in 2026. Architecture firms KAAN Architecten in Rotterdam and Celnikier & Grabli Architectes in Paris won the RFP. 

Precise layering in catalysts for building sustainable chemicals

Published:30.10.24 — EPFL chemical engineers have developed a way to build metal clusters – with near atomic precision – in a method that has the potential to improve catalysts and accelerate chemical reactions including turning carbon dioxide into high value chemicals like methanol.

A lung pathogen's dilemma: infect or resist antibiotics?

Published:28.10.24 — A new study by EPFL reveals that the notorious bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa must balance between effectively colonizing human airways and developing antibiotic tolerance to survive.

A new spectroscopy reveals water's quantum secrets

Published:25.10.24 — For the first time, EPFL researchers have exclusively observed molecules participating in hydrogen bonds in liquid water, measuring electronic and nuclear quantum effects that were previously accessible only via theoretical simulations.