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Targeting a brain mechanism could treat aggression

Published:10.08.18 — EPFL neuroscientists have identified a brain mechanism that is linked to aggression and violent behavior, potentially forming the basis for treating aggression in several psychiatric disorders.

For ever more efficient optical fibres

Published:09.08.18 — By applying a computer program that mimics the way the human brain learns to identify objects, EPFL scientists are now able to reconstruct images that have been degraded by passing through an optical fiber.

Competing in the Hydrocontest with a new boat

Published:07.08.18 — Summer series - Students' projects (6/9). On 11 August, the three Swiss universities that will compete in the upcoming Hydrocontest – EPFL, HES-SO Fribourg and HEIG Yverdon – will unveil their boats in Yverdon-les-Bains. EPFL’s team is now putting the finishing touches to its new boat.

Earthquakes can be attenuated by groundwater

Published:06.08.18 — Researchers from EPFL and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris have found that the presence of pressurized fluid in surrounding rock can reduce the intensity of earthquakes triggered by underground human activities like geothermal energy production.

The subtle mechanics of an avalanche – as seen in 3D

Published:03.08.18 — Drawing on the fact that the snow in an avalanche can behave like both a solid and a fluid, a young researcher at EPFL and WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF has managed to simulate a snow slab avalanche with unrivaled precision.

An underwater tunnel connecting Geneva and Lausanne

Published:02.08.18 — Summer series. Students' projects (5/9) - Drawing inspiration from Elon Musk’s Hyperloop and the Swissmetro initiative, a civil engineering Master’s student has looked into the possibility of building an underwater high-speed train route through Lake Geneva.

Optical fibers that can “feel” the materials around them

Published:31.07.18 — EPFL researchers have developed an optical fiber capable of detecting what sort of material or liquid they have come into contact with. Their research has been published in Nature Communications.