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EPFL and ENS Lyon create a strategic alliance

Published:13.07.12 — Patrick Aebischer and Jacques Samarut, President of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure (ENS) Lyon, have concluded a cooperation agreement. The partnership will encourage the creation of joint degree programs.

A pocket synthesizer that also rides a motorcycle

Published:11.07.12 — SUMMER SERIES - Student projects (2). For the second edition of the Nintendo DS programming contest, bachelor students from the Embedded Systems course were set in nine teams made of two members each that competed against one another. The jury could not decide between the best two.

Bacteria a potential threat to nuclear waste repositories

Published:09.07.12 — By interacting with the radioactive waste and the materials used to contain it, underground microorganisms may affect the safety of nuclear waste repositories, for better or for worse.

Demystifying the immortality of cancer cells

Published:05.07.12 — In cancer cells, normal mechanisms governing the cellular life cycle have gone haywire. Cancer cells continue to divide indefinitely, without ever dying off, thus creating rapidly growing tumors. EPFL scientists have discovered a protein complex involved this deregulated process, and hope to be able to exploit it to stop tumor formation in its tracks.

A floating port for docking boats offshore

Published:02.07.12 — SUMMER SERIES: Students projects - Moorage space is becoming increasingly rare in the ports along Lake Geneva. An EPFL student is working on an alternative that provides additional mooring spots without overcrowding the lakefront.

Probing the secrets of unmagnetized magnets

Published:29.06.12 — EPFL physicists studying magnetic materials have discovered that they have some unexpected properties. Their research could lead to the development of even tinier magnets in the future.

Using bad chips to build energy efficient smartphones

Published:27.06.12 — Defective chips could be used to develop cheaper and energy efficient smartphones and computers.