Sep 16, 2016 | Keeping wood destroying fungi at bay
Swisscom Ventures and Reto Vincenz are contributing to a seed-financing round for MycoSolutions AG, an Empa, St. Gallen, spin-off company. This start-up support should allow the new firm to break into the international...
Sep 15, 2016 | Tag der offenen Tür in St. Gallen
Die Sechstklässlerin Salome Schneider aus Oberuzwil ist die Gewinnerin des Wettbewerbs vom Tag der offenen Tür der Empa in St. Gallen. Mit ihrem Vater hatte sie alle Forschungspfade und -stationen besucht und konnte die...
Sep 6, 2016 | Explosive core
A local festival, a pleasant summer’s evening, a friendly game of boules – and suddenly a deafening bang. Not from a firework or a cracker, but from an exploding boules ball.
Sep 2, 2016 | «Reliability Science and Technology»
Empa's Reliability Science and Technology lab is set to focus on the topic of nanoscale transport phenomena and will have a new head, Michel Calame. The private lecturer of Physics at the University of Basel will take...