New alarm-clock app gets your day off to a fun start

Published:02.09.19 — Two EPFL Master’s students, an EPFL PhD student, a UNIL PhD student and an EPFL alumnus have teamed up to develop a new alarm app called Wakeit. The app draws on users’ social-media contacts to make getting out of bed a little easier.

A biosensor to help rheumatoid arthritis patients

Published:29.08.19 — Friday, 30 August, a team of EPFL students took part in the SensUs competition at the Eindhoven University of Technology. This year’s challenge was to develop a biosensor that can quickly measure concentrations in patients’ blood plasma of adalimumab. The main active ingredient of one of the best-selling drugs in the world, which can have harmful side effects. The team won the second prize of translation potential award.

Expanding prototyping camp creates 'safe environment for failure'

Published:29.08.19 — The China Hardware Innovation Camp, in which students from EPFL and other schools work together to create connected devices, is easily taken for a tech accelerator or incubator. In fact, its emphasis on learning from mistakes, rather than selling a product, is the program’s greatest strength.

Spin-off SWISSto12 raises 18.1 million

Published:29.08.19 — EPFL spin-off SWISSto12, which manufactures antennas for satellite communications, has raised CHF 18.1 million from investors. The firm will use the fresh injection of capital, announced today, to ramp up marketing of its 3D-printed waveguides and expand its offices in the US and Israel.

European students to race futuristic boat designs in Yverdon

Published:28.08.19 — This year, three universities from French-speaking Switzerland – EPFL, HEIA-FR and HEIG-VD – will co-host the sixth annual HydroContest competition, challenging student teams to come up with fast, energy-efficient boat designs.

Universal algorithm set to boost microscopes

Published:27.08.19 — EPFL scientists have developed an algorithm that can determine whether a super-resolution microscope is operating at maximum resolution based on a single image. The method is compatible with all types of microscopes and could one day be a standard feature of automated models.

Michael Grätzel tops new ranking of scientists

Published:26.08.19 — EPFL Professor Michael Grätzel is ranked #1 in a list of 100,000 top scientists across all fields. The ranking method is a based on new, more accurate standardized citation metrics developed by scientists led by Stanford University.