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Campus Biotech will be the core of the Swiss neuroscience valley

Published:29.10.13 — The research groups involved in the Human Brain Project and the Blue Brain Project, as well as most scientists from the Center for Neuroprosthetics, will join the new "Campus Biotech" facilities in Geneva, while remaining fully part of EPFL. As a consequence, the original project to host them in a new building on the Lausanne campus (Neuropolis) has been withdrawn.

Analyzing hundreds of cells in a few mouse-clicks

Published:28.10.13 — An EPFL PhD student has developed a technique for analyzing hundreds of images of cells in just a few mouse-clicks.

Tracking micropollutants in Lake Geneva

Published:25.10.13 — Antibiotics, urban pesticides, and other contaminants accumulate where wastewater is released into Lake Geneva. Using computer simulations, EPFL researchers have shown that the risk they pose is highest during summer and that they degrade most efficiently during the winter.

Angry Birds - The Rise of the Machines

Published:24.10.13 — An EPFL team has won an international artificial intelligence competition with software able to reproduce a human-like way of playing the famous video game.

A natural boost for MRI scans

Published:22.10.13 — Using an innocuous agent that is already naturally produced in the body, EPFL researchers have developed a breakthrough method that can make contrast-enhanced MRI safer and cheaper.

Twenty-two thousand trips around the planet

Published:21.10.13 — Four years after its launch, Swisscube, the small satellite developed by EPFL’s Space Center, is still in operation. Some of the technological choices made and considered audacious at the time have yielded valuable lessons for building future spacecraft.

Using mathematics for predicting the chances of a Kickstarter project

Published:18.10.13 — Vincent Etter, doctoral student in communication systems, has developed an analysis tool for projects seeking for funding in the Kickstarter website. After a few hours, it is capable of predicting with amazing accuracy whether the submitted project will succeed or fail.