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Making installed train windows permeable to mobile-phone signals

Published:07.02.22 — EPFL spin-off nu glass has successfully tested a portable system that makes the window panes on railcars permeable to mobile communications. This can bring significant environmental and cost benefits to railway companies and mobile-phone operators, since they’ll no longer have to install signal boosters to provide wireless connectivity for passengers.

“How we question the ethics of AI is a very political issue”

Published:04.02.22 — In advance of the AI & Ethics Week conference, co-organized by EPFL’s College of Humanities and Center for Digital Trust, ethics expert Johan Rochel talks about the importance of international and cross-sector debate on the impacts of artificial intelligence.

EPFL introduces a new excellence program for PhD students

Published:04.02.22 — This spring, the new EPFL PhD Excellence Programme will get under way. There is space for 45 PhD students, and applications are being accepted now.

Novel printing process switches materials from black to transparent

Published:03.02.22 — EPFL researchers have developed a new type of printing process that involves removing material rather than depositing it. Their method could be particularly useful for printing banknotes and ID documents, for example.

Localis-rex: a new tool for studying electrophile signaling

Published:01.02.22 — A team of researchers led by Professor Yimon Aye at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has developed a new screening method to explore an important biological process known as electrophile signaling.

Software that orchestrates secure and compliant data collaborations

Published:31.01.22 — As businesses grow increasingly reliant on data to make strategic decisions, more and more companies and organizations decide to collaborate and share information with each other. EPFL spin-off Tune Insight has developed a software program that allows users to process and analyze encrypted data from multiple sources, while keeping sensitive and confidential information protected against theft.

Blocking sphingolipids counteracts muscular dystrophy

Published:28.01.22 — EPFL scientists have made the first link between muscular dystrophy and a group of bioactive fats, the sphingolipids, which are involved in numerous cell functions and other diseases.