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Rooting out rumors, epidemics, and crime – with math

Published:10.08.12 — A team of EPFL scientists has developed an algorithm that can identify the source of an epidemic or information circulating within a network, a method that could also be used to help with criminal investigations.

Delivering Nitrogen Preserved Vaccines across Tanzania

Published:06.08.12 — SUMMER SERIES - Student projects (6):Transporting a vaccine at -140 degrees Celsius on the difficult roads of Sub-Saharan Africa is problematic, but five students in life sciences have gone to Tanzania to attempt to find a solution.

Giant telescope will reveal the outer reaches of the universe

Published:02.08.12 — The European Extremely Large Telescope Project (E-ELT) has officially been launched. This enormous telescope, with a diameter of nearly 40m, will be built in Chili and will include technologies developed at EPFL.

A navigable canal to connect Lake Geneva to Lake Neuchâtel

Published:30.07.12 — SUMMER SERIES - Student projects (5): An EPFL civil engineering student has envisioned a 38 km long navigation canal between Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Geneva. It is designed to be punctuated by three tunnels, locks and even a boat lift.

A market leader in civilian drones joins senseFly and Pix4D

Published:27.07.12 — The French company Parrot, world leader in wireless peripherals for mobile phones and already in the market for consumer drones, acquired for 5 million Swiss Francs a majority share in senseFly, a start-up from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL. They will also invest 2.4 million Francs in Pix4D, another EPFL spin-off active in the field of 3D image processing.

New-generation sensor combines lasers and mechanics

Published:26.07.12 — EPFL scientists have developed a rapid, precise opto-mechanical measurement system that can be embedded into a silicon chip. This new technology could revolutionize the domain of sensors and atomic force microscopy.

He drew a dream for Lausanne

Published:23.07.12 — A contemporary Utopia. As part of his master thesis, young architect Adrien Alberti envisioned floating peninsulas on Lake Geneva, with forms inspired by nature and automatically generated by a computer algorithm.