Category: In the Media

Tech Explorist – Gait characteristics are sometimes regarded as the sixth vital sign in humans. They serve as a valuable indicator of a person’s health, particularly in older adults – so why not measure them?

Researchers at the EPFL School of Engineering have developed a simple mid-infrared laser source that can be used to detect pollution in the air or molecules in someone’s breath.

Science Daily – Researchers have developed a model that uses data from sensors worn by meerkats to gain a more detailed picture of how animals behave in the wild.

IEEE Spectrum – Using robots as intermediaries, a school of zebra fish communicate with a colony of bees.

Phys.org – Scientists from EPFL, UNIL and local startup be.care have developed a system that uses heart rate variability to detect fatigue and identify what kind it is.

Science Daily – Scientists have come up with a systematic method for studying and even predicting gene expression – without using cells. Using their innovative, quantitative approach, they measured important parameters governing gene regulation. This allowed them to design and construct a synthetic biological logic gate, which could one day be used to introduce new

The Scientist –  Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior.

Swissinfo – Over the past five decades, EPFL (the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) has been the home of many scientific discoveries, some with global reverberations.

Science Daily – Scientists have developed a new image-processing method that can capture extremely rapid phenomena using any type of camera. Their method, called Virtual Frame Technique, delivers better performance than any commercial high-speed camera and is affordable and accessible to anyone.

Phys.org – EPFL has become the coordinator of Be-Smart, an EU research project that aims to step up the deployment of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and cut their costs by 75% between now and 2030. The project was launched in response to EU regulations that require new buildings to be nearly zero-energy by 2020.