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Scientists solve a long-standing mystery about wear

Published:17.06.16 — It generates particulate-matter air pollution and degrades mechanical parts. Adhesive wear a major, yet poorly understood problem. Using simulations, researchers from EPFL offer new insights into what happens when seemingly smooth surfaces rub against each other.

Five Euler Course students awarded their certificate at EPFL

Published:16.06.16 — They were children when they were accepted into the Euler Course and it’s as young adults that they have now received their certificate. They were honored yesterday, after six years of devoting their Wednesday afternoons to their love of math.

Internet of Things for Smarter Living

Published:15.06.16 — EPFL scientists are developing a new concept of a smart building that adjusts to your lifestyle, by allowing you to control your preferences. An important component, called the Internet of Things, involves monitoring your overall energy consumption by networking together all of your devices.

Starving cancer cells by blocking their metabolism

Published:14.06.16 — Scientists at EPFL have found a way to starve liver cancer cells by blocking a protein that is required for their metabolism – while leaving normal cells intact. The discovery opens new ways to treat liver cancer.

A new material can clear up nuclear waste gases

Published:14.06.16 — An international team of scientists at EPFL and the US have discovered a material that can clear out radioactive waste from nuclear plants more efficiently, cheaply, and safely than current methods.

A new tool brings personalized medicine closer

Published:14.06.16 — Scientists from EPFL and ETHZ have developed a powerful tool for exploring and determining the inherent biological differences between individuals, which overcomes a major hurdle for personalized medicine.

Reclaiming the immune system's assault on tumors

Published:13.06.16 — One of the major obstacles with treating cancer is that tumors can conscript the body’s immune cells and make them work for them. Researchers at EPFL have now found a way to reclaim the corrupted immune cells, turn them into signals for the immune system to attack the tumor, and even prevent metastasis.