If it is not yet a source of energy used properly, hydrogen are a vital means of storage. However, the main challenge now is to produce a “green”. The Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) was launched recently in the development of a cell PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL (PEC in English) can split water into hydrogen and oxygen [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Update Swiss law – Research on the living
December 24th, 2008 
admin Over the past year, the Swiss Parliament has changed its legislation concerning the use of living beings for experimental purposes or therapeutic. The process was conducted in three stages: – Revision in June 2007, the law on patents for biotechnological inventions; – The ratification in October 2007 by the National Council and in December 2007 [...]
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Tags: economic interests, generic drugs, research, scientific, Swiss Parliament 
No Comments »Quantum teleportation: more than 100,000 times the speed of light?
December 16th, 2008 admin The correlation between two physical phenomena is generally explained by two separate mechanisms: either the first event has influenced the second, or both events have the same cause in a common past. Quantum physics, however, involves a third mechanism called entanglement. In this context, even if two phenomena are too remote to interact by direct [...]
Posted in Experimental High-Energy Physics Tags: Quantum teleportation, speed of light No Comments »The Paul Scherrer Institute – PSI
December 16th, 2008 admin Matthew LEFRANCOIS – Dominique Pladys The Paul Scherrer Institute is a multidisciplinary research institute located in Villigen (near Zurich) in 2008, celebrating its 20 years of existence in its current form. At the end of World War II, the Federal Military Department establishes a commission to study nuclear energy chaired by Paul Scherrer. The company [...]
