News EPFL

Christmas or not Christmas?

Published:24.12.10 — Is the Christmas star, that is believed to have guided the Three Kings to Jesus, a scientific reality? And how might it help us to determine Christ’s birth date?

Geography comes to the rescue of commuters

Published:23.12.10 — The Lake Geneva region is experiencing considerable demographic and economic growth, as those who travel by car or train every day will have noticed. The Federal Roads Office (Ofrou) is forecasting a 30% increase in traffic by 2030. What solutions exist? Interview with Pierre Dessemontet, geographer at EPFL.

EPFL deep down in Antarctica

Published:22.12.10 — Ten years will have been required to set up the world’s largest neutrino observatory. IceCube is now ready and can begin its mission: to decipher the universe.

Connecting Kinects for Group Surveillance

Published:21.12.10 — EPFL doctoral student patents new algorithm for hacking multiple kinects to track groups of people even in the dark.

Can global warming be limited to 2°C?

Published:20.12.10 — In the frantic race to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists at EPFL are taking part in a new European project. They will evaluate various global warming scenarios, calculating the impact of climate change on the economy, agriculture and hydrology, and propose adaptations that would enable us to cope with this impact. The challenge at a European and worldwide level is to limit global warming to 2°C by the end of the century.

Hunting Killer Applications

Published:16.12.10 — Marc Gruber at EPFL’s College of Management is teaching his students how to look for ‘killer applications.’ An interview.

EPFL students will have plenty of space for revising for their exams!

Published:15.12.10 — To revise and otherwise prepare for their examinations, EPFL students will have more than 1000 workplaces at their disposal, in addition to those available in the library of the Rolex Learning Center.