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Traffic lights for Swiss autoroute entrances under study

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:16:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Smart highways could be around the corner in Switzerland, with EPFL, the federal polytechnic institute in Lausanne, undertaking a study to improve traffic flows by using stoplights to enter highways, with funding from the Swiss Federal Roads Office. There may be a growing sense of urgency to resolve highway traffic jams; Lausanne [...]

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Antiobiotics affected by water environment say EPFL researchers

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:50:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Findings could help development of new drugs for epilepsy, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – “Water isn’t just a neutral environment; it can also interact with the molecules and change their structure” EPFL researchers at the Laboratory of Molecular Physical Chemistry note in a statement about new findings that could lead to progress in [...]

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Lausanne astrophysicists succeed in measuring black holes

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:25:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – It takes a black hole to: measure another black hole, it turns out. Researchers at the EPFL polytechnic in Lausanne have been using, for the past two years, what they call “supermassive black holes acting as gravitational lenses” to measure, for the first time, other black holes. Scientists at the university’s laboratory [...]

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Accumulated energy determining factor in earthquakes’ intensity

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:29:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A doctoral student at EPFL in Lausanne has found the key to an important aspect of earthquakes: the cause of the varying intensity, that can make the difference between a minor and major earthquake. The findings by David Kammer, published 20 February in the journal Tribology Letters, provides new material for researchers [...]

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The week’s hottest Swiss story: tidying up space

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:31:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – What the world learned about Switzerland last week: the little nation known for its tidiness now intends to clean up space. One of the hottest-selling news agency stories last week, picked up in Toronto and Delhi and Los Angeles, was the result of an EPFL press release entitled “Cleaning up Earth’s orbit: [...]

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Secure web pages: industry alarmed by EPFL report

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:42:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Rush is on to get owners of encrypted pages to switch to new keys LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A very high percentage of secured web pages, those “https” URLs we look for when we make payments, for example, are indeed secure, 99.8 percent. But the assumptions behind the SSL certificates system may be ill-founded, a group [...]

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EPFL to set up energy, chemistry branch in Valais

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:12:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Canton Vaud’s federal polytechnic institute, EPFL and canton Valais signed an agreement of intention Tuesday 10 January in Sion to establish a branch of the school in canton Valais, most likely in Sion but working closely with a number of existing services throughout the canton. A formal agreement and plans will be [...]

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Bye-bye energy-hog electronics in 2017, EPFL suggests

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:09:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Tunnel-FET technology set to take over from field effect Tactile screens also on the way LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Computers, cell phones and other electronic devices could be using 100 times less energy starting in just six years, an EPFL researcher in Lausanne writes in a special issue of Nature devoted to transistors, published Tuesday 22 [...]

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Peugeot-Citroen boosts growing EPFL-big industry ties

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:25:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Peugeot-Citroën Thursday became the 11th major firm to join the Innovation Square on the EPFL campus, the first company from the car industry to bring in a large research and development budget, according to the universiy. The square opened in August 2010. The group said in a press release 3 November that [...]

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New tool tracks heart rate in real time

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:07:00 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Wearing your heart on your sleeve to take on a new meaning LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A tiny new device could soon provide real-time heart monitoring that might help prevent some of the 70-100,000 deaths annually from sudden onset heart attacks. The new tool has yet to be tested in real-life conditions, but cardiologists are enthusiastic [...]

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