A New Era of Optical Communications: The Potential of Parametric Amplifiers
The ability to amplify optical signals in optical fibers to their quantum limit is a crucial technological advancement that underpins our modern information society. The…
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Scientists Unlock Nature’s Secret to Super-Selective Binding
EPFL researchers have found that controlling super-selective binding interactions between nanomaterials and protein surfaces requires not only adjusting the molecular density but also the pattern…
Revolutionizing Renewable Energy: Using Sunlight To Produce Hydrogen Fuel Out of Thin Air
A device that can harvest water from the air and provide hydrogen fuel—entirely powered by solar energy—has been a dream for researchers for decades. Now,…
Too Much Motivation Affects Your Perception and Decision-Making
An EPFL and UNIGE team demonstrates how motivation affects the neural circuits of perception and influences decision-making. Whether we are in a good mood or a…
New Measurements Provide a Glimpse of the Quantum Future
A multi-institutional team has created an efficient method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs, a kind of photon source, on a single…
New Record Efficiency Achieved by Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
In the 1990s, mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) were invented by Brian O’Regan and Michael Grätzel, taking on the latter’s name – the world-famous Grätzel…
Scientists Augment Reality To Crack the Code of Quantum Systems
A new method for simulating quantum entanglement between interacting particles has been developed by physicists. Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality in order to crack the…
Researchers Discover a Material With Brain-Like Learning Capabilities
Vanadium Dioxide has the ability to “remember” the entire history of past environmental stimuli. During his research on phase transitions in Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), Mohammad…
Ground-Breaking Experiments: Tracking Chirality in Real Time
Chiral molecules exist in two forms known as enantiomers, which are mirror images of each other and non-superposable – much like a pair of hands….
A Fundamental New Law Unchains Fusion Energy
Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has been foundational to plasma and fusion research for…
NeuroMechFly: A Morphologically Realistic Biomechanical Model of a Fly
A Digital Twin of Drosophila “We used two kinds of data to build NeuroMechFly,” says Professor Pavan Ramdya at the School of Life Sciences at…
Solar Nanowire-Nanotube Purification Filter Offers Easy Access To Clean Drinking Water
Even today, clean water is a privilege for many people across the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 1.8 billion people…
Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind Use AI To Control Plasmas for Nuclear Fusion
Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind have jointly developed a new method for controlling plasma configurations for use in nuclear fusion research. EPFL’s…
Banana Split: Extracting Hydrogen Fuel From Banana Peels
As the world’s energy demands increase, so does our consumption of fossil fuels. The result is a massive rise in greenhouse gases emissions with severely…
Making Next Generation Quantum Computers Even More Powerful
Engineers at EPFL have developed a method for reading several qubits – the smallest unit of quantum data – at the same time. Their method…
Molecular Device Turns Invisible Infrared Into Visible Light
Researchers at EPFL, China, Spain and the Netherlands have built a micro-device that uses vibrating molecules to transform invisible mid-infrared light into visible light. The…
Integrated Photonics Meets Electron Microscopy in Unconventional Collaboration
The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image molecular structures at the atomic scale by using electrons instead of light, and has revolutionized materials science and…
Have You Ever Wanted To Explore Outer-Space? Now You Can!
Explore the Universe With Virtual Reality Using Powerful, Open-Source Software VIRUP Have you ever wanted to explore outer-space? Now you can, without leaving Earth, thanks…
