An interview with Kumar Varoon Agrawal, tenure-track Assistant Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Head of the Laboratory of Advanced Separations (LAS)....
The small mobile BeBot robot was designed to accomplish a very specific mission: to combat pollution and the accumulation of waste on beaches. It sifts and sweeps up debris of all kinds while preservi...
The artist Christo, who died on 31 May 2020, wanted his last project to be completed. It's done, the Arc de Triomphe, the emblematic monument of Paris, is all wrapped up! The work, called L'Arc de Tri...
Today, 90% of the world's trade in goods is carried out by maritime transport, which accounts for 3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This environmental footprint is expected to increase to 1...
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An interview with Kumar Varoon Agrawal, tenure-track Assistant Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Head of the Laboratory of Advanced Separations (LAS)....
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