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Graphical details: the secret life of Christopher Wren's drawing of the weather clock

Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

Historians have unanimously credited Christopher Wren with having constructed a weather clock (a self-registering instrument) in the early 1660s. This conclusion was based on the account of the French diplomat Balthasar de Monconys, which included a sketch ...

2021

Xile Hu

Xile Hu was interviewed in celebration of his Royal Society of Chemistry Homogeneous Catalysis Award. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2019

Ethics in Research

Science is in revolution. The formidable scientific and technological developments of the last century have dramatically transformed the way in which we conduct scientific research. The knowledge and applications that science produces has profound conseque ...

2019

Grand Challenges for Global Brain Sciences

Sean Lewis Hill, Miguel Nicolelis, Corrado Cali

The next grand challenges for society and science are in the brain sciences. A collection of 60+ scientists from around the world, together with 10+ observers from national, private, and foundations, spent two days together discussing the top challenges th ...

2016

A view on global urbanization : spatial networks, urban scaling and remote sensing

Emanuele Strano

It is widely recognized that global urbanization is one the most urgent issue of our time. Any problem related to global issues, such as climate change, social and environmental sustainability and the future of our society, is somehow related to cities and ...

EPFL2016

Living in interesting times : an urban view from Beijing innovators

Béatrice Ferrari

Interactions of transmembrane (TM) helices play a key role in many cell processes. The configuration and cross angle these helices adopt are traditionally attributed to specific residue interactions. We present a different approach, in which specific resid ...

EPFL2013