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In 1991, EPFL scientists Brian O’Regan and Michael Grätzel developed solar cells inspired by plant photosynthesis. 34 years later, the technology had reached 12% efficiency

In 1991, EPFL scientists Brian O’Regan and Michael Grätzel developed a solar cell inspired by plant photosynthesis. Their dye-sensitized solar cell offered a new way to capture sunlight and turn it into electricity. The idea was simple, but improving its performance took decades of research. About 34 years later, the…

The Economic Times

Swiss scientists want to make long AI-generated videos even better by preventing them from 'degrading into randomness' - is that a good idea? I am not so sure

EPFL researchers teach AI to correct its own mistakes in video sequences, reducing drift and potentially extending realistic duration.

TechRadar

Creepy robotic hand detaches at the wrist before scurrying away to collect objects

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous for human hands.

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Robots fashioned from dead lobster exoskeletons have awesome strength, light weight, and flexibility — necrobotics advance mixes sustainable food waste with synthetic components

Swiss scientists have demonstrated the use of dead lobster tails as robotic appendages.

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‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever

The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in North America, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time

The Guardian - UK

How high-cost Switzerland stayed a manufacturing powerhouse in the offshore era

What is the lesson of Swiss Fortune 500 companies—such as dsm-firmenich—for the rest of Europe, and the world?

Fortune

Watch first-of-its-kind robot elephant go bowling

Researchers have unveiled a miniature robot elephant with special 3D-printed "tissues" that allow for more complex and natural movements. A video shows the elephant grasp a flower with its trunk and kick a bowling ball.

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Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s a walking drone – with wings, legs and toes that jumps into takeoff

A doctoral student has created the RAVEN drone, with a wingspan of 39 inches, that he hopes might one day be used for deliveries

Digital Camera World

EPFL Researchers Develop Tiny Brain Chip For High-Accuracy Thought-to-Text Conversion‌ ‌

Miniaturized Brain-Machine Interface (MiBMI) enhances communication for severe motor impairments.‌ ‌

Zenger

Would you eat a robot? Swiss scientists want to create fully edible electronics — but I am not sure I want to have a bite at R2D2 anytime soon

RoboFood, backed by scientists at EPFL, are pioneering edible robots to address the problem of e-waste.

TechRadar

The unexpected behavior of pulsing stars could help us measure the universe

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which could reveal new clues about the immense size and scale of our universe.

LiveScience

The unexpected behavior of pulsing stars could help us measure the universe

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe.

Space

Training algorithm breaks barriers to deep physical neural networks: Research

EPFL researchers created an algorithm that can train an analog neural network just as accurately as a digital one, allowing for the development of more efficient alternatives to power-hungry deep learning hardware. Read further on Dynamite News:

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How the songs of stars can help perfect Gaia's sweeping map of our galaxy

By listening to "music" played by shaking stars, astronomers could use asteroseismology as a new type of cosmic distance ruler, perfecting the 3D map of two billion stars being built by Gaia.

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Presence Hallucinations Linked To Early Parkinson’s Symptoms, Warns Study

Thinking someone is behind you when they're not could be an early sign of Parkinson's disease, says research

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AI-Designed Robot Makes Tomato Harvesting More Efficient

Researchers at TU Delft and EPFL use ChatGPT to create a robotic arm that can gently pick tomatoes from the vine.

Evening Standard

Paralysed man walks again thanks to brain technology breakthrough

Neuroscientists in Switzerland have created a wireless digital bridge which can restore the connection lost between the brain and the spinal cord

The Independent UK

How brain implants helped paralysed man walk again for first time in 12 years

Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, had a cycling accident in 2011 in China and severely injured his spinal cord

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Miracle as paralysed man with severe spine injury manages to walk again

Scientists in Switzerland have created a 'wireless digital bridge' that is able to restore the connection lost between the brain and the spinal cord, thanks to which Gert-Jan Oskam can walk again

Inverse

These lab-engineered bacteria can take in solar energy and spit out clean electricity

Scientists have tinkered with bacteria to create a new possible source of solar energy that can replicate itself and absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

The Independent UK

Paralysed men walk again thanks to spine implant

New technology mimics the way the spinal cord is activated by the brain

Asharq Al-Awsat

Oil-Water Mix is Possible, New Study Says

Common experience tells us that oil and water do not mix. Yet, it turns out that they can mix when oil is dispersed as small droplets in water. This strange behavior has long vexed scientists because there is no explanation for it. A team from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de…

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