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12 bauingenieur - Jan 15
Researcher Wins Prestigious Biochemistry Award

12 Civil Engineering - Jan 15
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Scientists at EPFL and ETH Zurich have developed tiny elastic robots that can change shape depending on their surroundings. Modeled after bacteria and fully biocompatible, these robots optimize their movements so as to get to hard-to-reach areas of the human body. They stand to revolutionize targeted drug delivery.

11 Verwaltung - Jan 18

Hand-knitted Molecules

Molecules are usually formed in reaction vessels or laboratory flasks. An Empa research team has now succeeded in producing molecules between two microscopically small, movable gold tips - in a sense as a "hand-knitted" unique specimen.

12 Bauingenieur - Jan 16

A robot recreates the walk of a 300-million-year-old animal

Using the fossil and fossilized footprints of a 300-million-year-old animal, an interdisciplinary team that includes scientists from EPFL and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have developed a method fo

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