Nachrichten von École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL

The Bachelor will provide students with the mathematical and computational foundations to understand AI, design new intelligent systems, and critically assess their ethical and societal implications.

Seas and oceans are brimming with untapped potential for producing energy. Two EPFL research groups are developing nanoscale devices for converting saltwater into electricity.

EPFL scientists have reimagined how aptamers – short DNA strands used in molecular sensors – detect their targets. Their versatile sensing method could enable rapid tests for small molecules like hormones and neurotransmitters.

How does a vaccine work? How can we predict the spread of a disease? How does AI help doctors make a diagnosis? On 7 and 8 November, Scientastic invites the public to explore health technologies through a wide range of activities.

Margo Seltzer is the winner of the 2026 Erna Hamburger Award. She is a Canadian computer scientist, specialized in building software systems that introduce entirely new ways of doing things. Among them, the Berkeley DB database software. Seltzer will give a talk at EPFL’s Lausanne campus on 11…

Driverless taxis are moving from pilot projects to real-world deployment. Researchers at EPFL are studying what cities must do it they want to integrate robotaxis without increasing congestion or weakening public transport.

Researchers at EPFL have created the world’s largest open-access collection of spatial proteomics tissue images, bringing together samples from more than 5,000 patients. Called spora, this new resource aims to accelerate AI research into how tissues function and how diseases develop.

ChatGPT hit like a meteorite in late 2022 and found fertile ground at EPFL, invading the computers and smartphones of tomorrow’s engineers. Within two years, generative AI had spread like wildfire among our students owing to their still-malleable learning habits and the growing number of models –…

EPFL researchers have developed an implantable neural chip that tracks communication across brain regions, identifying cognitive and emotional states in real time.

Several EPFL labs are converging around an idea that began as a doctoral researcher’s hunch: the spinal cord revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging might unlock new therapies.