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Education Oct 26, 2026

Students' love-hate relationship with AI

ChatGPT hit like a meteorite in late 2022 and found fertile ground at EPFL, invading the computers and smartphones of tomorrow's engineers. Within two years, generative AI had spread like wildfire among our students owing ...

Economics & Business Oct 26, 2026

New online tool to help turn food waste into opportunity

Western Australian businesses can now make better-informed decisions about reducing food waste and turning discarded materials into valuable products, thanks to a new online toolkit.

Planetary Sciences Oct 26, 2026

27 exoplanet targets for the world's first private space telescope

The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It's the brainchild of Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO. It will have a 3-meter mirror (9.8 feet), larger than Hubble's 2.4-meter mirror (7.9 feet), and ...

Nanomaterials Oct 26, 2026

Water into fuel: The new nanomaterial that could upgrade green hydrogen

Generating hydrogen without releasing carbon dioxide sounds simple: pass electricity through water, split water molecules and generate green hydrogen. The hard part is the electrocatalyst. The best ones rely on platinum, ...

Other Oct 26, 2026

Glowing ghoul or chemical tool? The toxic chemistry behind Victorian séances

In November 1857, during a séance in Jersey City, the medium Leah Brown claimed her body produced luminous particles. So intense was the luminosity emanating from her, she recalled in her memoir, that it almost burned her ...

Earth Sciences Oct 26, 2026

Freshwater flows reshape Coorong algae communities, 16 years of data reveal

Ongoing research is providing a clearer picture of how climate change can affect different aspects of the Coorong in South Australia—and is helping develop strong environmental strategies that can be adapted as the climate ...

Ecology Oct 26, 2026

Could ecological roles offer clues to how life began?

Producers, consumers, and decomposers play different roles in today's ecosystems. Thinking about these familiar roles led me to a question: Could their differences partly reflect the different physical and chemical environments ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 26, 2026

Metalens microscope switches focus with voltage, not moving optics

Just as it is difficult for a camera to keep both a nearby flower and a distant mountain sharply focused at the same time, conventional optical microscopes face a similar challenge when imaging structures located at different ...

Materials Science Oct 26, 2026

Beyond trial and error: Integrating computation, processing, and AI to design high-entropy alloys

Designing structural high-entropy alloys (SHEAs) means solving a problem with an enormous number of moving parts: which combinations of composition and processing conditions will yield the phases, microstructures, and mechanical ...

Biotechnology Oct 26, 2026

Light-based monitoring could improve quality checks for lab-grown replacement cartilage

A new doctoral dissertation by Omar Anwar Elkadi in the field of Applied Physics on near-infrared spectroscopy for the continuous monitoring of tissue-engineered cartilage will be defended at the Faculty of Science, Forestry ...

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