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Fossil fuels or renewables: similar future costs

Published:16.09.15 — Whether Switzerland opts for fossil fuels, renewable energy or nuclear power, the cost will be about the same in 2050. As shown by an energy calculator developed at EPFL.

New enrollment at EPFL rises by 15%

Published:12.09.15 — Enrollment at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology will top 10,000 students for the first time when classes start Monday. Online, a million students worldwide signed up for classes through the school’s virtual campus.

When the neuroprosthetics learn from the patient

Published:10.09.15 — While it takes a long time to learn to control neuroprostheses, José del R. Millán's research, published in Nature Scientific Reports, will enable the creation of a new generation of self-learning and easy to use devices.

Wrapped up in nanotubes

Published:09.09.15 — Summer Series: Student Projects -- Aranya Goswami works on carbon nanotubes, which, among their many extraordinary properties, can also be combined with polymers and biological molecules to detect chemicals.

From Lausanne to Yaoundé: giving premature babies a chance

Published:07.09.15 — Summer series: student projects. For his Master’s project in materials science, Benjamin Rime came up with a sturdy and innovative thermoregulation system for incubators in southern countries.

Adapting electricity demand to production. Not the other way around.

Published:04.09.15 — Instead of aligning energy production with consumption, wouldn’t it be possible to make consumption adapt to the intermittency of renewable energies? François Vuille, director of development at the Energy Center, shares his thoughts.

Preventing crystallization to improve drug efficiency

Published:02.09.15 — Esther Amstad and an international team of researchers have developed a method to increase the solubility of poorly soluble substances, such as many of the newly developed drugs.