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More than 250 people join in the hackathon run by EPFL students

Published:13.11.17 — The second LauzHack took place this past weekend at EPFL. Run entirely by EPFL students, the design event drew participants from around the world intent on solving new-technology challenges.

That music playing in your head: a real conundrum for scientists

Published:10.11.17 — Researchers at EPFL can now see what happens in our brains when we hear music in our heads. The researchers hope that in time their findings will be used to help people who have lost the ability to speak.

A robotic spy among the fish

Published:08.11.17 — A new miniature robot developed by EPFL researchers can swim with fish, learn how they communicate with each other and make them change direction or come together. These capabilities have been proven on schools of zebrafish.

Museomix: a marathon for developing new forms of cultural mediation

Published:07.11.17 — From 10 to 12 November, Museomix 2017 will take over EPFL’s ArtLab building. Participants will use new technologies to cook up original forms of cultural mediation in a truly creative marathon. The general public will be able to visit the event as it unfolds and then try out the prototypes at the end of the three days.

The floor you walk on is now smart

Published:06.11.17 — Technis, an EPFL spin-off, has developed a system that combines a connected floor surface with artificial intelligence to track people’s trajectories as they walk through a shopping mall or convention center, for example. The goal is to use such real-time data to improve safety and gauge the success of a given event.

Reading our brain chemistry

Published:03.11.17 — Researchers at EPFL have developed a new device and analysis method that let doctors measure the neurochemicals in a patient’s brain. The Microsystems Laboratory 4 (LMIS4)'s system involves collecting microdroplets of cerebral fluid and analyzing them to obtain chemical data that can help doctors diagnose and treat neurodegenerative diseases.

Animals' mitochondria defenses discovered in plants

Published:02.11.17 — Scientists at EPFL have discovered that the mechanism that mitochondria use to defend mammalian cells against protein-damaging stress also exists in plants. The work is published in Molecular Cell.