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School of Life Sciences welcomes students for Summer Research Program

Published:02.08.19 — Each summer, EPFL’s School of Life Sciences welcomes students from all over the world to participate in hands-on research projects and career-advancing workshops, in a unique, two-month science experience known as the Summer Research Program.

EPFL's researchers open research center to test solar panels in Dakar

Published:31.07.19 — EPFL's scientists recently inaugurated a new research center in Senegal to test solar panels and their underlying components. Founded in conjunction with École Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar, the center will help solar-panel operators assess the quality of parts they source locally. It will also provide specialized training and host PhD students performing thesis work.

A new way to experience traditional music of Afghanistan

Published:30.07.19 — (Summer Series): Mathieu Clavel, a master’s student in the College of Humanities (CDH) Digital Humanities Institute, is bringing musical heritage from Afghanistan to life using tools from data science and virtual reality.

Digitizing and replicating the world of materials

Published:29.07.19 — A team of EPFL researchers has set itself the lofty goal of building the biggest-ever database that digitizes the visual appearance of all natural and synthetic materials in the world.

Next-gen membranes for carbon capture

Published:26.07.19 — EPFL chemical engineers have developed a new class of high-performance membranes for carbon capture that greatly exceed current targets.

Adding a polymer stabilizes collapsing metal-organic frameworks

Published:23.07.19 — Porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have many applications like carbon capture and water-cleaning. However, MOFs with large pores tend to collapse. Chemists and chemical engineers at EPFL have now solved the problem by adding small amounts of a polymer into the MOF pores, an act that impedes pore collapse.

EPFLoop races to third place in Los Angeles

Published:22.07.19 — Using similar propulsion technology, the Hyperloop pods developed by EPFL and ETH Zurich turned in a solid performance in Los Angeles: EPFLoop topped out at 238 km/h in the airless tube set up by SpaceX, while Swissloop peaked at 259km/h. The Technical University of Munich hit a top speed of 463km/h, demolishing the record – and its capsule – in the process.