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Improving contact-tracing apps in the COVID-19 era

Published:26.08.21 — An international collaboration with EPFL has developed a method to improve the performance of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps by taking into account a user’s recent contacts, risk levels and shared information about tests and symptoms.

Light-matter interactions propel quantum technologies forward

Published:26.08.21 — Physicists at EPFL have found a way to get photons to interact with pairs of atoms for the first time. The breakthrough is important for the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), a cutting-edge field leading the way to quantum technologies.

Optical technology can slash the energy required by AI

Published:25.08.21 — EPFL engineers are pioneering an energy-saving technology that uses fiber optics to boost the performance of supercomputers.

Helping engineers better predict clay landslides

Published:24.08.21 — Norway experiences dangerous landslides due to its clay-rich soil. For her Master’s thesis in civil engineering at EPFL, Mathilde Metral outlined steps that the country’s geotechnical engineers can take to improve the predictive computer model they’re currently developing. 

Faulty regulation of an architect gene can lead to rare bone disease

Published:23.08.21 — EPFL researchers found that, if expressed too early during embryonic development, one of the genes that orchestrate the formation of limbs can lead to a rare disorder of bone growth.

Asclepios: Shooting for the Moon!

Published:20.08.21 — As part of the Asclepios project, a simulated mission to the Moon run by EPFL students, six would-be astronauts spent over a week living on a mock lunar base. Their extraterrestrial habitat was actually right here on Earth – at the Grimsel Test Site, to be precise. Here we look back on an adventure that was (almost) out of this world.

LiftPose3D: Turning 2D images into 3D models

Published:20.08.21 — EPFL scientists have developed a deep learning-based method called LiftPose3D, which can reconstruct 3D animal poses using only 2D poses from one camera. This method will have impact in neuroscience and bioinspired robotics.