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10 Professors appointed

Published:09.03.15 — The Council of Federal Institutes of Technology appointed ten professors at its march meeting.

Solar Impulse takes off, with a piece of EPFL on board

Published:09.03.15 — Several EPFL laboratories have participated in the development of the technologies enabling the solar aircraft to take off from Abu Dhabi today for its first trip around the world without a single drop of fuel.

Light That Adapts to Your Needs Through the Eye of a Camera

Published:09.03.15 — EPFL researchers have developed a camera that sees like the human eye, providing clues about the sensation of visual comfort. The instrument could optimize natural and artificial lighting to constantly adapt to the needs of the user.

Graphene Meets Heat Waves

Published:06.03.15 — EPFL researchers have shed new light on the fundamental mechanisms of heat dissipation in graphene and other two-dimensional materials. They have shown that heat can propagate as a wave over very long distances. This is key information for engineering the electronics of tomorrow.

Kids and robots learn to write together

Published:04.03.15 — Who is the teacher: the student or the machine? By showing a robot how to write letters, children improve their writing skills and gain self-­‐confidence. This system, called CoWriter, was developed by EPFL researchers.

Lausanne to reunite the world's major “Brain Initiatives”

Published:03.03.15 — The Brain Forum 2015 will bring together top scientists and entrepreneurs from the biggest “brain initiatives” of recent years. The event will run from March 30 to April 1 at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne.

The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave

Published:02.03.15 — Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior.