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Chaque année, près de 250 start-up voient le jour en Suisse, dont une trentaine en moyenne à l'EPFL. Pour de nombreuses jeunes pousses, les partenariats avec de grandes entreprises constituent un tremplin capable de leur faire gagner des années, voire une condition sine qua non dans leur développement.
Pour en savoir plus sur ces collaborations, lisez notre article: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/les-start-up-s-allient-aux-entreprises-pour-accele/
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Chaque année, près de 250 start-up voient le jour en Suisse, dont une trentaine en moyenne à l'EPFL. Pour de nombreuses jeunes pousses, les partenariats avec de grandes entreprises constituent un tremplin capable de leur faire gagner des années, voire une condition sine qua non dans leur développement.
Pour en savoir plus sur ces collaborations, lisez notre article: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/les-start-up-s-allient-aux-entreprises-pour-accele/
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Nearly 250 startups are created in Switzerland every year, including around 30 at EPFL. Partnerships with large companies can save them years of development work and are often a make-or-break condition for business growth.
If you're interested in knowing more about these collaborations, please don't hesitate to read our article: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/startups-boost-growth-by-teaming-up-with-large-com/
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Nearly 250 startups are created in Switzerland every year, including around 30 at EPFL. Partnerships with large companies can save them years of development work and are often a make-or-break condition for business growth.
If you're interested in knowing more about these collaborations, please don't hesitate to read our article: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/startups-boost-growth-by-teaming-up-with-large-com/
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Who we are looking for
You are finishing or have recently finished an MSc in computational biology, bioinformatics, or a related field. What matters most is that you have a good understanding of biological networks, and good computational skills.
Required
• Strong Python and the scientific stack (NumPy, pandas)
• Experience handling protein structure data (PDB/mmCIF, AlphaFold DB) and building reproducible data pipelines over thousands of structures
• Working knowledge of network and graph analysis (NetworkX, igraph, clustering and community detection)
• Familiarity with biological interaction and annotation resources (STRING, BioGRID, UniProt, disease gene sets such as OpenTargets or DisGeNET)
• Benchmarking rigor: you understand precision/recall trade-offs, how to build fair negative sets, and how to spot circularity
• Ability to read a published method and reproduce its analysis from paper plus code
• Good scientific writing and communication in EnglishDuration: 6 months
Paid: CHF 2,200 gross monthly#gefedihired #switzerland #epfl #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #StructuralBiology
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Who we are looking for
You are finishing or have recently finished an MSc in computational biology, bioinformatics, or a related field. What matters most is that you have a good understanding of biological networks, and good computational skills.
Required
• Strong Python and the scientific stack (NumPy, pandas)
• Experience handling protein structure data (PDB/mmCIF, AlphaFold DB) and building reproducible data pipelines over thousands of structures
• Working knowledge of network and graph analysis (NetworkX, igraph, clustering and community detection)
• Familiarity with biological interaction and annotation resources (STRING, BioGRID, UniProt, disease gene sets such as OpenTargets or DisGeNET)
• Benchmarking rigor: you understand precision/recall trade-offs, how to build fair negative sets, and how to spot circularity
• Ability to read a published method and reproduce its analysis from paper plus code
• Good scientific writing and communication in EnglishDuration: 6 months
Paid: CHF 2,200 gross monthly#gefedihired #switzerland #epfl #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #StructuralBiology
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What you will do
1. Run PeSTo Screen all-against-all over a large set of human proteins to generate a predicted interaction network.
2. Deploy and characterize the results against reference interaction databases such as STRING, to see how well the predictions line up with known biology.
3. Recreate ATOMICA’s disease-network analysis on your PeSTo Screen network, overlay disease-associated genes, and test which approach recovers disease pathways more cleanly. Comparison to ATOMICA is the core deliverable.Optional extension
If time allows and depending on model scope, benchmark PeSTo Screen on standardized external tasks such as the RNAGlib RNA structure-function benchmark, and other.#gefedihired #switzerland #epfl #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #StructuralBiology
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What you will do
1. Run PeSTo Screen all-against-all over a large set of human proteins to generate a predicted interaction network.
2. Deploy and characterize the results against reference interaction databases such as STRING, to see how well the predictions line up with known biology.
3. Recreate ATOMICA’s disease-network analysis on your PeSTo Screen network, overlay disease-associated genes, and test which approach recovers disease pathways more cleanly. Comparison to ATOMICA is the core deliverable.Optional extension
If time allows and depending on model scope, benchmark PeSTo Screen on standardized external tasks such as the RNAGlib RNA structure-function benchmark, and other.#gefedihired #switzerland #epfl #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #StructuralBiology
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Internship project: Benchmarking PeSTo Screen against ATOMICA for molecular interaction networks
About us
Lemna Bio is an EPFL spin-off building structural AI models that reason about how molecules interact, directly from 3D structure. Our published model PeSTo predicts interaction interfaces on proteins. We are now extending it into PeSTo Screen, a model that performs all-against-all interaction screening: given large sets of molecules, it scores how likely each pair is to interact, in a single fast pass rather than by brute-force docking.The project
A recent model from the Zitnik lab at Harvard, ATOMICA, learns representations of molecular interfaces and uses them to build interaction networks and recover disease-associated pathways. ATOMICA connects proteins by how similar their interfaces look. PeSTo Screen takes a different route: it predicts whether two proteins actually interact. This project asks a clear question: does predicting interactions directly recover biology better than comparing interface similarity?
You will benchmark PeSTo Screen head to head against ATOMICA, using ATOMICA’s own published analyses as the yardstick.#gefedihired #switzerland #epfl #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #StructuralBiology
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Internship project: Benchmarking PeSTo Screen against ATOMICA for molecular interaction networks
About us
Lemna Bio is an EPFL spin-off building structural AI models that reason about how molecules interact, directly from 3D structure. Our published model PeSTo predicts interaction interfaces on proteins. We are now extending it into PeSTo Screen, a model that performs all-against-all interaction screening: given large sets of molecules, it scores how likely each pair is to interact, in a single fast pass rather than by brute-force docking.The project
A recent model from the Zitnik lab at Harvard, ATOMICA, learns representations of molecular interfaces and uses them to build interaction networks and recover disease-associated pathways. ATOMICA connects proteins by how similar their interfaces look. PeSTo Screen takes a different route: it predicts whether two proteins actually interact. This project asks a clear question: does predicting interactions directly recover biology better than comparing interface similarity?
You will benchmark PeSTo Screen head to head against ATOMICA, using ATOMICA’s own published analyses as the yardstick.#gefedihired #switzerland #epfl #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #StructuralBiology
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Lemna Bio (lemna.bio), an #EPFL spin-off building structural AI models that reason about how molecules interact, directly from 3D structures, is looking for a (paid!) intern to benchmark their newly developed models. Details in the reply to this toot; DM me if interested, feel free to pass it along your network if you know someone who might be interested.
Please only candidates already based in Switzerland.
#getfedihired #switzerland #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology
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Lemna Bio (lemna.bio), an #EPFL spin-off building structural AI models that reason about how molecules interact, directly from 3D structures, is looking for a (paid!) intern to benchmark their newly developed models. Details in the reply to this toot; DM me if interested, feel free to pass it along your network if you know someone who might be interested.
Please only candidates already based in Switzerland.
#getfedihired #switzerland #bioinformatics #StructuralBiology
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Le groupe Intelligence artificielle en médecine moléculaire, dirigé par Charlotte Bunne, a conçu un modèle d'IA de base pour la biologie tissulaire. Il analyse les tissus tumoraux de nombreux types de cancer et peut être utilisé pour étudier la biologie à différentes échelles. À terme, il doit permettre de mieux identifier et prédire la réponse au traitement ainsi que l’évolution de l’état des patientes et patients.
En savoir plus: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/cartographier-les-tissus-tumoraux-pour-mieux-compr/
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Le groupe Intelligence artificielle en médecine moléculaire, dirigé par Charlotte Bunne, a conçu un modèle d'IA de base pour la biologie tissulaire. Il analyse les tissus tumoraux de nombreux types de cancer et peut être utilisé pour étudier la biologie à différentes échelles. À terme, il doit permettre de mieux identifier et prédire la réponse au traitement ainsi que l’évolution de l’état des patientes et patients.
En savoir plus: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/cartographier-les-tissus-tumoraux-pour-mieux-compr/
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Charlotte Bunne’s Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine group has developed a foundation model for tissue biology. The model analyzes tumor tissues across many cancer types and can be used to study biology across scales, from individual cells to whole tissue sections. In the long term, it aims at helping identify and better predict treatment response and patient outcomes.
Find out more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/ai-model-maps-tumor-tissue-to-improve-cancer-care/
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Charlotte Bunne’s Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine group has developed a foundation model for tissue biology. The model analyzes tumor tissues across many cancer types and can be used to study biology across scales, from individual cells to whole tissue sections. In the long term, it aims at helping identify and better predict treatment response and patient outcomes.
Find out more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/ai-model-maps-tumor-tissue-to-improve-cancer-care/
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Three neuroscientists from the Laboratory of Psychophysics are shedding new light on how our brain constructs what we see.
Their study reveals that this process unfolds in two stages: the brain first processes visual information unconsciously, before integrating it to form a coherent perception.
Read more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/when-the-brain-edits-its-own-movies/
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Three neuroscientists from the Laboratory of Psychophysics are shedding new light on how our brain constructs what we see.
Their study reveals that this process unfolds in two stages: the brain first processes visual information unconsciously, before integrating it to form a coherent perception.
Read more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/when-the-brain-edits-its-own-movies/
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Des neuroscientifiques du Laboratoire de psychophysique apportent un nouvel éclairage sur la façon dont notre cerveau construit ce que nous voyons.
Leur étude révèle que ce processus se déroule en deux temps: le cerveau traite d’abord les informations visuelles de manière inconsciente, avant de les intégrer pour former une perception cohérente.
En savoir plus: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/quand-le-cerveau-se-monte-ses-propres-films/
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Des neuroscientifiques du Laboratoire de psychophysique apportent un nouvel éclairage sur la façon dont notre cerveau construit ce que nous voyons.
Leur étude révèle que ce processus se déroule en deux temps: le cerveau traite d’abord les informations visuelles de manière inconsciente, avant de les intégrer pour former une perception cohérente.
En savoir plus: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/quand-le-cerveau-se-monte-ses-propres-films/
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📕💧🌊 En cet été marqué par la chaleur, le dernier Dimensions de l'EPFL consacre son dossier à l'eau!
De l'infiniment petit à l'immensité de l'espace, ce numéro explore les multiples enjeux liés à cette ressource essentielle.
Disponible gratuitement dans les caissettes à journaux du campus ou sur https://go.epfl.ch/dimensions-pdf
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📕💧🌊 En cet été marqué par la chaleur, le dernier Dimensions de l'EPFL consacre son dossier à l'eau!
De l'infiniment petit à l'immensité de l'espace, ce numéro explore les multiples enjeux liés à cette ressource essentielle.
Disponible gratuitement dans les caissettes à journaux du campus ou sur https://go.epfl.ch/dimensions-pdf
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Wenn technisch die Menschen durch virtuelle Liebe zu Narzissten gezüchtet werden:
«Seitensprung? Viele Nutzer von KI-Partnern führen eine reale Beziehung:
KI-Partner sind nicht nur ein Trostpflaster für introvertierte Stubenhocker. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Viele Nutzer haben im realen Leben eine Beziehung – und neigen zum Narzissmus.»#narzissmus #ki #kipartnerschaft #vr #seitensprung #beziehung #app #epfl
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Wenn technisch die Menschen durch virtuelle Liebe zu Narzissten gezüchtet werden:
«Seitensprung? Viele Nutzer von KI-Partnern führen eine reale Beziehung:
KI-Partner sind nicht nur ein Trostpflaster für introvertierte Stubenhocker. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Viele Nutzer haben im realen Leben eine Beziehung – und neigen zum Narzissmus.»#narzissmus #ki #kipartnerschaft #vr #seitensprung #beziehung #app #epfl
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
A universal sum over topologies in 3d gravity
Alexandre Belin, Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Diego Liska, Boris Post
SciPost Phys. 21, 017 (2026)
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
A universal sum over topologies in 3d gravity
Alexandre Belin, Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Diego Liska, Boris Post
SciPost Phys. 21, 017 (2026)
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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💬 Behind the Science Interview with Navadheer Yalamanchili (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
He discusses how the self-assembly of simple catalysts into a chiral environment enables efficient deracemization of racemic mixtures, avoiding the need to synthesize complex chiral catalysts
https://www.chemistryviews.org/teaching-a-simple-achiral-catalyst-how-to-become-chiral/
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💬 Behind the Science Interview with Navadheer Yalamanchili (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
He discusses how the self-assembly of simple catalysts into a chiral environment enables efficient deracemization of racemic mixtures, avoiding the need to synthesize complex chiral catalysts
https://www.chemistryviews.org/teaching-a-simple-achiral-catalyst-how-to-become-chiral/
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 🐧🤖 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built a flapping-wing #robot that swims #underwater and flies into the air.
Inspired by diving #birds like #puffins, the small #vehicle folds its #wings to handle water density. This #technology could help scientists collect environmental samples from both air and #water.
👉 Learn more at https://seethis.tv/post/a-puffin-inspired-flapping-robot-that-swims-underwater-then-flies-into-the-air
#aerodynamics #animals #biomechanics #biomimicry #design #engineering #fluiddynamics #flying #locomotion #physics #research #science #tech #tksst #video
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PAVE Space is on a mission to accelerate access to space and transform the way satellites reach orbit. Its founder, Julie Böhning, sees space as a new continent waiting to be explored and developed – a vision that earned her the 2026 PERL Trophy.
Find out more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/go-all-in-and-love-what-you-re-doing-otherwise-the/
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PAVE Space is on a mission to accelerate access to space and transform the way satellites reach orbit. Its founder, Julie Böhning, sees space as a new continent waiting to be explored and developed – a vision that earned her the 2026 PERL Trophy.
Find out more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/go-all-in-and-love-what-you-re-doing-otherwise-the/
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Inspiré par son intérêt pour les neurosciences et fort d’une formation en biologie, chimie et ingénierie, le professeur Yoon Seok Kim de l’EPFL développe des outils pour étudier le cerveau tout en réunissant des scientifiques issus de disciplines très différentes.
Lire l'interview: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/la-vraie-force-de-la-science-est-de-pouvoir-comble/
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Inspiré par son intérêt pour les neurosciences et fort d’une formation en biologie, chimie et ingénierie, le professeur Yoon Seok Kim de l’EPFL développe des outils pour étudier le cerveau tout en réunissant des scientifiques issus de disciplines très différentes.
Lire l'interview: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/la-vraie-force-de-la-science-est-de-pouvoir-comble/
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🪽🌊 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built FAAV, a flapping wing #robot that flies through air and swims #underwater using flexible membrane wings.
The #design mimics how diving #birds move between fluids that differ 800 fold in density. The #research suggests that diving birds prioritize speed over #energy efficiency during underwater wing strokes.
#robotics #biomimicry #engineering #science #physics #animals #drones #technology #tech #ocean #flight #swimming
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🪽🌊 Engineers at #MIT and #EPFL built FAAV, a flapping wing #robot that flies through air and swims #underwater using flexible membrane wings.
The #design mimics how diving #birds move between fluids that differ 800 fold in density. The #research suggests that diving birds prioritize speed over #energy efficiency during underwater wing strokes.
#robotics #biomimicry #engineering #science #physics #animals #drones #technology #tech #ocean #flight #swimming
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S'inspirant des oiseaux plongeurs, des ingénieurs de l'EPFL et du MIT ont conçu un robot capable de nager sous l'eau, puis de battre des ailes pour sortir de l'eau et continuer à voler dans les airs.
Ces travaux peuvent aider à comprendre comment ces "aviateurs aquatiques" adaptent leur vol entre l’air et l’eau et inspirer une nouvelle génération de drones aéro-aquatiques capables d'explorer et d'échantillonner des zones marines difficiles d'accès.
➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/un-robot-aile-nage-et-vole-comme-un-oiseau-plong-2/
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S'inspirant des oiseaux plongeurs, des ingénieurs de l'EPFL et du MIT ont conçu un robot capable de nager sous l'eau, puis de battre des ailes pour sortir de l'eau et continuer à voler dans les airs.
Ces travaux peuvent aider à comprendre comment ces "aviateurs aquatiques" adaptent leur vol entre l’air et l’eau et inspirer une nouvelle génération de drones aéro-aquatiques capables d'explorer et d'échantillonner des zones marines difficiles d'accès.
➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/un-robot-aile-nage-et-vole-comme-un-oiseau-plong-2/
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Inspired by diving birds, engineers at EPFL and MIT have designed a robot that can swim underwater, and flap out of the water to continue flying through air.
These findings could help us understand how these “aquatic aviators” adapt their flight between air and water and inspire a new generation of aerial-aquatic drones capable of exploring and sampling hard-to-reach marine environments.
➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-flapping-robot-swims-and-flies-like-a-diving-b-2/
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Inspired by diving birds, engineers at EPFL and MIT have designed a robot that can swim underwater, and flap out of the water to continue flying through air.
These findings could help us understand how these “aquatic aviators” adapt their flight between air and water and inspire a new generation of aerial-aquatic drones capable of exploring and sampling hard-to-reach marine environments.
➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-flapping-robot-swims-and-flies-like-a-diving-b-2/
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Alors que les épisodes de forte chaleur se succèdent, nous ressentons leurs effets sur notre organisme : il nous est plus difficile de fonctionner normalement. Les arbres ont eux aussi leurs limites.
Selon des recherches menées par deux de nos labos, les forêts tropicales sont de plus en plus exposées à des températures dépassant les limites permettant une photosynthèse efficace, menaçant ainsi leur capacité à absorber le dioxyde de carbone.
➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/les-vagues-de-chaleur-entravent-la-photosynthese/
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Alors que les épisodes de forte chaleur se succèdent, nous ressentons leurs effets sur notre organisme : il nous est plus difficile de fonctionner normalement. Les arbres ont eux aussi leurs limites.
Selon des recherches menées par deux de nos labos, les forêts tropicales sont de plus en plus exposées à des températures dépassant les limites permettant une photosynthèse efficace, menaçant ainsi leur capacité à absorber le dioxyde de carbone.
➡️ https://actu.epfl.ch/news/les-vagues-de-chaleur-entravent-la-photosynthese/
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As heatwaves continue one after another, we are feeling their effects on our own bodies: it becomes harder for us to function normally. Trees also have their limits when temperatures are too high.
According to a new EPFL study, tropical forests are increasingly exposed to temperatures that exceed the limits for efficient photosynthesis, threatening their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
Read more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/heatwaves-hinder-photosynthesis/
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As heatwaves continue one after another, we are feeling their effects on our own bodies: it becomes harder for us to function normally. Trees also have their limits when temperatures are too high.
According to a new EPFL study, tropical forests are increasingly exposed to temperatures that exceed the limits for efficient photosynthesis, threatening their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
Read more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/heatwaves-hinder-photosynthesis/