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  Smart highways to avoid traffic jams

  21.05.12  Traffic lights on highway access ramps can help prevent traffic jams. EPFL engineers are testing this approach to increase the capacity of Swiss highways.

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  You Shoot and Croppola Composes

  18.05.12 We envy photographers who are experts at composing beautiful pictures and would like to achieve the same result.…

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  Electronic congestion in the microchips of the future

  16.05.12 Electrons within some materials can stick together like cars on a traffic jam. EPFL researchers studying promising…

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Why are lighter-colored eyes more sensitive to light?

Lighter-colored irises let more light pass into the retina
The blue pigment attracts harmful UV rays
Lighter-colored eyes have more higher density of nerve cells

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How safe are the personal data that we give to our mobile phones and computers? Public talk with Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Romain Roubaty on Wednesday, 23 May.

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