30.03.26 – Scientific expeditions require months of planning before scientists can acquire the first data.
A bark cuts through the Arctic silence, waking Anna up. She slept only three hours after collecting the last sample. Anna reaches for her rifle, exits the tent, and steps onto the midni

27.03.26 – Thanks to next-generation endoscope technology developed at EPFL, surgeons can navigate hard-to-reach areas of the human body with extreme precision, enabling new minimally invasive procedures.
Minimally invasive surgery is now standard practice for a range of conditions, and it’s

Master’s students Adam El Amraoui, Eesha Sheel, Frieda Chen and Lawrence Kurowski are organising a graduate conference. On March 26, students will gather to ponder definitions of belonging both within Asia and among Asian diasporic communities.

19.03.26 – Christian Lafforgue knows only too well how a professor can influence a student’s academic decisions. He believes that a good teacher is one with a keen sense of humanity. He was named best teacher in the electrical engineering section for 2025.
“Ever since I started taking your c

AI‑powered clinical documentation was meant to streamline work at Danish hospitals. But in practice,…

17.03.26 – Deep inside giant planets, water and hydrogen are squeezed to enormous pressures. Researchers at EPFL show that under these conditions, ice can trap hydrogen molecules and force them into an unusual quantum dance.
Hydrogen hydrates are solid, ice-like crystalline materials that tr

17.03.26 – Multiple languages, sensitive documents, and strict privacy rules: for employees of the Canton of Ticino, automated translation is not trivial. The administration is now introducing an in-house translation system based on Switzerland’s Apertus large language model – keeping both sen

Church attendance is in long-term decline, threatening the financial stability of magnificent church buildings. Research at Cambridge Judge Business School, in collaboration with the Diocese of Ely, focuses on how church custodians respond to tensions between churches as places of worship and the fi

Fossil teeth can preserve remarkable information, much like a biological identity card with data about the lives of individuals tens of thousands of years ago. By analyzing teeth, a new study published in Science Advances reconstructed the life history of four straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodo