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Nanocluster aerosols can result from burning candles or even humans, being exposed to ozone. © istock

Ozone causes our skin to emit tiny airborne particles

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An international research team including EPFL scientists has found that whenever we encounter ozone, it reacts with lipids in our skin to create nanoparticles.

EPFL and ETH Zurich launch their first joint doctoral programme

26.11.21NewsEPFL

Switzerland’s two federal institutes of technology have teamed up to offer a new joint doctoral programme in the learning sciences. It aims to train experts to draw on their technological and scientific knowledge in the interests of forwarding the research, teaching and learning.

Tissue engineering using mechanobiology and robotic micromanipulation

25.11.21NewsEPFL

A team of EPFL engineers has discovered a strategy to shape living tissues like dough.

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Collage pour le dossier “Le grand nettoyage” © Patric Sandri

Time to clean up

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Humanity has made planet Earth a landfill. From the Mariana Trench to the edge of space, we live in a ticking time bomb of rubbish. Scientists are now rushing for solutions.

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Assistant Professor Antoine Bosselut © Alain Herzog / EPFL 2021

Machines don't understand being wet

26.11.21EPFL

Assistant Professor Antoine Bosselut, who joined EPFL in September, was recently named one of Forbes Magazine’s prestigious ‘30 under 30 Europe in Science and Healthcare’ for his research in Natural Language Processing on whether AI systems learn common sense from language?

From left to right: Gaspard Peduzzi, Antoine Mouran and Jean Chambras. © 2021 EPFL / Alain Herzog - CC BY-SA 4.0

“We're part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.”

23.11.21EPFL community

A group of EPFL students has developed a system for making speculative investments in decentralized finance. Their startup, called APWine, raised nearly $5 million in cryptocurrency in a fundraising round this spring.

“Understanding the economy is understanding society”

19.11.21EPFL

Paula Cacault is the Head of Operations of the Enterprise for Society (E4S) center, facilitating research projects and helping develop the center’s activities, such as a new master’s program that will help train the next generation of leaders to guide society through this time of transition.

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Campus Lecture with Carl Zimmer: Science and Policy During the Pandemic

Carl Zimmer is an award-winning New York Times columnist and the author of 14 books about science. His newest book is Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive. Program 5:00pm : Introdution and welcoming…

06-12-202106-12-2021

With: Carl Zimmer, Mirko Bischofberger
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67513175768
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Screening of Film "That Which Does Not Kill"

09-12-202109-12-2021

Place and room: RLC E1 240
Category: Conferences – Seminars

RESPECT @ EPFL: Exposition CONTINUUM

18-11-202103-12-2021

Place and room: Rolex Learning Center
Category: Exhibitions

Round Table COMMENT SAVOIR ? : Sciences, quel pouvoir face à l'incertitude?

30-11-202130-11-2021

With: Christine Clavien, docteure en philosophie, éthicienne à la Faculté de médecine de l’UNIGE Sabine Süsstrunk, informaticienne et présidente du Conseil Suisse de la Science Lê Nguyen Hoang, chercheur au Laboratoire d’algorithmique réparti et responsable de la médiation scientifique à l’EPFL Thierry Lhermitte, comédien, amateur de mathématiques et d’informatique et parrain de la Fondation pour la recherche médicale
Place and room: Cafétéria Niki (ex ELA)
Category: Conferences – Seminars