Goodbye to fossil fuels, hello to renewables: Empa demonstrates how the mobility of the future can work without fossil energy in its mobility demonstrator "move". A new 3D visualization of the entire system (in German)...

Compared to the preindustrial era, the carbon dioxide concentration (CO2) in the atmosphere has risen to nearly a 1.5-fold higher concentration in 2016, and it continues to rise. As part of the Global Atmosphere Watch...

There is a growing need in our society for fitness and wellness, which generally incurs environmental costs and swallows up large quantities of energy. At NEST, the Empa and Eawag research and innovation building, a...

Researchers at ETH Zurich, Empa and the Norwegian research institute SINTEF are pursuing a new approach to treating osteoarthritis. This is based on a polysaccharide, a long-chain sugar molecule, originating from brown...

On September 1, 2017, new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles will come into force in the EU and Switzerland. These will plug the gaps in the existing legislation and ensure that diesel vehicles in particular...

Researchers are on the lookout for rapid, reliable and affordable switches for the opto-electronics of the future. An Empa team now presents a potential solution: dye droplets measuring just a few sub-micrometers in...

Since January 2017 a sensor wristband that, according to the manufacturer, is capable of detecting a woman’s fertile days in her cycle with 89 percent certainty has been on the market. Empa helped developing the sensor...

An Empa team has succeeded in developing a new three-dimensional cell model of the human placental barrier. The "model organ" can quickly and reliably deliver new information on the intake of substances, such as...

Bereits zum 14. Mal fand letzte Woche in Dübendorf das beliebte Ferienprogramm für die Kinder der Empa-Mitarbeitenden statt. Während ihre Eltern bei der Arbeit waren, erleben knapp zwei Dutzend Mädchen und Buben im...

June 2017 broke quite a few weather records in Switzerland. Above all the month was extraordinarily hot, the second hottest June on records, peaking in a heat wave between 19 and 23 June. Cities heat up even more than...

In order to allow solar and wind energy to make a greater contribution to our future energy supply, it must be possible to store this energy efficiently, for instance in the form of hydrogen. This is done by means of the...

Moving things with a wave of the hand: thanks to Empa technology this dream could soon become real. A sensor made of piezo-resistive fibers integrated in a wristband measures wrist movements and converts them into...

Since 2009, commissioned by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Empa has supported the development of sustainable take-back and recycling systems for electronic waste in Colombia. On June 6, 2017, the...

In May 2016, Patrick Wäger took over the helm at Empa’s Technology and Society lab. Closing material cycles and performing life cycle and technology assessments are just some of the topics that now come under his...

At the Empa and Eawag NEST building in Dübendorf, eight ETH Zurich professors are collaborating with business partners to build the three-storey DFAB HOUSE. It is the first building in the world to be designed, planned...

Even before the UN Ocean Conference in early June, we already knew about the disastrous ways in which plastic affects the world's oceans. Billions of pieces of plastic are floating in the oceans. Their effects are also...

NEST officially opened just over a year ago – and a great deal has happened since. At the partner event on 22 June 2017, the NEST network partners – which now number over 100 companies and research as well as public...

Hydrogen is regarded as the energy source of the future: It is produced with solar power and can be used to generate heat and electricity in fuel cells. Empa researchers have now succeeded in decoding the movement of...

How can we organize energy supply in the post-fossil era? How can energy be stored efficiently? And how can we organize distribution as economically and conveniently as possible? Empa’s research platform “ehub” is...

In March 2017, NEST received an award from the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) as part of "Umsicht – Regards – Sguardi 2017". From June 20 to July 6, 2017, the traveling exhibition will be in the NEST...