Lung cancer nodules imaged by micro-CT scanning. In these tumors, macrophages support regulatory T cells, which limit the efficacy of immunotherapy. Credit: © De Palma’s…
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Histological staining of a lung adenocarcinoma, which is made of tumor cells as well as cells of the immune microenvironment including tumor-associated neutrophils. Credit: Caroline…
Schematic of AlInGaN polariton waveguide structure. Credit: Dr. Paul Walker, University of Sheffield The field of ultrafast nonlinear photonics has now become the focus of…
The aquarium system in which scientists submitted Northern red sea corals to various temperatures. Credit: Maoz Fine EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals…
Integrated silicon nitride photonic chips with meter-long spiral waveguides. Credit: Jijun He, Junqiu Liu (EPFL) Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers…
The transistor developed by EPFL researchers can substantially reduce the resistance and cut the amount of heat dissipation in high-power systems. Credit: © EPFL Power…
Schematic showing aerosol processes of climate relevance in the Arctic for polar night. Abbreviations stand for: INP — ice nucleating particles, IR — infrared. Red…
Our state of consciousness changes significantly during stages of deep sleep, just as it does in a coma or under general anesthesia. Scientists have long…
Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Credit: University of Oxford The exponential growth of data traffic in our digital…
The 3.8 kg large CH3NH3PbBr3 crystal growth at LPMC for high-energy gamma-ray detection. The Rubik cube next sets the scale. Credit: László Forró (EPFL). Credit:…
When Light and Atoms Share a Common Vibe An especially counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics is that a single event can exist in a state…
Credit: EPFL 2020 Managing the heat generated in electronics is a huge problem, especially with the constant push to reduce the size and pack as…
The human genome contains over 4.5 million sequences of DNA called “transposable elements,” these virus-like entities that “jump” around and help regulate gene expression. They…
A prototype of a personal protection mask with a titanate filter, which shows efficiency in killing bacteria and viruses. Credit: Courtesy of Swoxid SA /…
There is no question that motivation is one of the hardest and yet important factors in life. It’s the difference between success and failure, goal-setting…
New hollow-core optical fibers that are filled with either air or gas. Credit: Alain Herzog/2020 EPFL “The idea had been going around my head for…
[embedded content] An international consortium of scientists has analyzed, as part of a vast program of cosmological surveys, several million galaxies and quasars, thus retracing…
Credit: EPFL EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials. With their pioneering nanotechnology, EPFL researchers…