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The ETH spin-off Bonsai Systems helps musicians to improve their movement, use of force and body position.

Scientists from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have succeeded in coupling an extremely small quantum dot with 1,000 times larger trumpet-shaped nanowire.

As Professor of Particle Physics, Felicitas Pauss played a key role in the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Two students are now living in the NEST unit Vision Wood. Communications intern Ramona Ronner visited Patryk Spera and David Norris in their very unusual flat, and talked to them about their life in a research environment.

EPFL is asking Android users who visit or live in Canton of Geneva to record the sounds around them with a special app.

EPFL is asking Android users who visit or live in Geneva Canton to record the sounds around them with a special app.

04. Montreux Heritage Lab2 is an immersive audiovisual experience that places nearly 6,000 hours of archive footage from the Montreux Jazz Festival at the fingertips of the public.

From 11 June through 10 July, the University of Zurich (UZH) will open its doors for Manifesta 11, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Varnishes protect works of art and wooden instruments from environmental damage. However, until recently, little research had been carried out into the effects of varnish on the sound of violins. Empa researchers have now investigated this relationship and have published their initial findings. Leonardo da Vinci's oil painting "Mona Lisa" looks rather gloomy with its dark green and brown colours.

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a new method to differentiate very weak and short sound waves from longer ones. When used in acoustic imaging, their technology makes it possible to detect only the outline of objects. Reverberated sound can make objects visible. The sonar is used in the shipping industry to acquire information about the seabed or shoals of fish, while gynaecologists use ultrasound images to study foetuses in the womb.

Nicola Spaldin, Professor for Material Theory at ETH Zurich, is being awarded the Körber Prize in Hamburg today.

Geneva, 29 September 2014. Today, CERN , the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is blowing out 60 candles at an event attended by official delegations from 35 countries.

Geneva, 26 November 2013. CERN , the City and The Republic and Canton of Geneva announce today the 2014 open competition for the Collide @ CERN Geneva artist in residency award 2 .

SUMMER SERIES (4) - For her semester project, an EPFL Master's student applied a different approach to tracking the flow of the crowds at the Paléo music festival - using cell phone data and statistics.

Geneva, 26 June 2013. The second winner of Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN , American sound sculptor, Bill Fontana 2 , begins his arts residency at CERN 3 on 4 July 2013.

Neurobiologists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) are the first to show that directional migration of neurons during brain development is controlled through epigenetic processes. In an elaborate study bridging epigenetics and neurobiology, the scientists found that the migratory pattern is orchestrated through epigenetic regulation of genes within neurons and spatial signals in the environment.

The Montreux Jazz Festival and EPFL presented on June 19th the Montreux Jazz Heritage Lab, an interactive and inhabitable space that allows the user to plunge into 45 years of jazz, blues and rock concerts.

EPFL has designed an architectural project intended to welcome the audience and performers at the St Prex Classics festival.