“If I was born 20 years earlier, I would probably have become a computer scientist. But: we are facing climate change. So we need solutions now!“ says Amael Parreaux-Ey, environmental engineering student at EPFL and CEO of Resilio, a company leading the sustainable digital transition. Resilio helps organisations to assess how much their use of
The quick development of vaccines against COVID-19 has at least reduced speed and extend of the pandemic. By vaccination, we expose our immune system to parts or an attenuated pathogen to train our immune system in detecting the pathogen quicker and therefore developing a more adequate immune response. The credit for the first vaccination goes
Viruses, bacteria, fungi… not many good things come to our mind when we think about these organisms. Only during the last decade, it dawned on us that these organisms can actually be beneficial to our health. Our gut bacteria, for example, are required for training our immune system. Without microorganisms we would neither be healthy
Recently, it has become more and more evident that if we manage to get a hold on climate change, we still have another problem: the enormous loss of biodiversity. We still don’t know all species existing in the world which is why it is quite difficult to estimate the loss of biodiversity. However, here is
In the ever-dark depths of our ocean, a huge variety of organisms have developed different strategies to enlighten their environment. Among them are even deep-sea corals. The production of light is referred to as “bioluminescence”. In essence, bioluminescence is the product of an oxidative reaction in which energy is released in the form of light.
Charles Darwin and his family were enchanted by the small carnivorous plant “Drosera”, also known as sundew, and were fascinated by the way Drosera captures prey. The mechanism of capturing prey involves many processes that we commonly think are unique only to animals – like the use of electrical signals, hormones or the production of
Kelp forests are a magical world and you do not even have to go to faraway places in the tropics to explore them. What appears to be an ugly algal network on the surface of the sea, hides a huge variety of different species below its canopy. Among its inhabitants are cute sea otters, magnificent