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Transforming urban wasteland into opportunity

Published:13.03.13 — How can disused urban sites be regenerated sustainably? A new book addresses this important issue.

Air quality in an app

Published:11.03.13 — Thanks to sensors installed on trams that send data live to mobile phones, people can check air pollution levels around the city with just one click and in real time. This new app developed by EPFL researchers was recently tested in Zurich.

A new vice-president for planning and logistics

Published:08.03.13 — The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Board) announces the appointment of André Schneider, former COO of the World Economic Forum, as the new vice-president of EPFL for planning and logistics. He will replace Francis-Luc Perret after his retirement. ETH Board also announces having appointed 10 new professors.

The Right Dose for Oncology

Published:08.03.13 — EPFL researchers develop a tool for oncologists using the electrical signature of cancer cells to get just the right treatment dosage for each patient.

Sizes within a species appear to follow a universal distribution

Published:05.03.13 — Researchers discovered what might be a universal property of size distributions in living systems. If valid throughout the animal kingdom, it could have profound implications on how we understand population dynamics of large ecosystems.

The camera to the infinitesimal is exported to Asia

Published:04.03.13 — Attolight, EPFL’s spin-off, is looking towards the rising sun. While a Singapore based research institute has placed its first order, other sales are being approved in China and a contract with a Japanese distributor is under negotiation. Samuel Sonderegger is the CEO of this young company created in 2008, and he reveals to us the secrets of his entry into the Asian market.

Open-access "made in EPFL" has caught Nature's publisher's eye

Published:01.03.13 — Nature Publishing Group, publisher of the prestigious journal of the same name, has decided to invest in Frontiers, an EPFL-born company that publishes scientific journals under an open-access model.