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Gaia's variable stars: a new map of the stellar life cycle

Published:19.08.25 — EPFL and Max Plank researchers use satellite Gaia’s data to map 35,000 variable stars in 1,200 star clusters, revealing new ways to track the lives of stars.

First propaganda detection mechanism for Telegram

Published:18.08.25 — The new method developed by EPFL researchers in collaboration with colleagues in Germany, is efficient, fast and inexpensive. This means that it could help moderators in the fight against disinformation on Telegram.

Elegant mathematics bending the future of design

Published:14.08.25 — EPFL researchers have developed a new way to design complex, curved three-dimensional shapes using flat materials such as paper, aluminum sheets or plastic, combining creative thinking with a new computational algorithm.

The architectural language of Easter Island

Published:12.08.25 — For her PhD in architecture at EPFL, Chloé Joly-Pottuz researched construction methods, and in particular those for timber structures on Easter Island.

Do neurotechnologies threaten our mental privacy?

Published:08.08.25 — Consumer devices may soon be able to directly access and interfere with the human brain – but this raises unprecedented ethical and legal questions. How can we leverage the benefits of this technology for therapeutic purposes while preventing its misuse?

Amputee and researcher go prosthetic hand in hand towards progress

Published:06.08.25 — The human determinants of research are key for making progress, as championed by amputee Massimo Munzi who is helping improve prosthetics, as well as EPFL’s neuroprosthetic researcher Jonathan Muheim.

New method instantly characterizes thousands of molecules

Published:05.08.25 — EPFL researchers have developed a new imaging method, based on the use of a single-photon camera, that can characterize thousands of molecules quickly and simultaneously.