Science & Environment

Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry

The secret life of materials

Émission

CQFD
04 February 2021

Fabien Sorin

Sciences et techniques de l'ingénieur, EPFL

Why is glass transparent? Why does a metal paper clip bend easily, unlike a nail? The materials that surround us hold many mysteries.

Related interventions

Sections

Science & Environment

Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry

The mysteries of room-temperature superconductors

- Frédéric Mila
  
  EPFL

04 September 2023

Sections

World & Society

History & Philosophy

The dictatorship of happiness

- Alexandrine Schniewind
  
  UNIL

19 November 2016

Sections

Science & Environment

Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry

Of all materials: glass

- Fabien Sorin
  
  EPFL

26 October 2021

Sections

World & Society

History & Philosophy

The memory of our ancestors: to welcome it or to free ourselves from it?

- François Ansermet
  
  HUG | UNIGE
- Ariane Giacobino
  
  HUG | UNIGE

06 March 2021

Sections

World & Society

What is a robot?

- Marc Atallah
  
  UNIL

16 September 2015

Sections

Human Body

Health & Medicine

Genetic progress: destiny in our hands?

- Denis Duboule
  
  EPFL | UNIGE
- Samia Hurst-Majno
  
  UNIGE

30 September 2018

Sections

Science & Environment

Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry

Why does bread puff up when baked?

- Sandrine Zuchuat
  
  UNIGE

13 May 2015

Sections

World & Society

History & Philosophy

Tunisia or the identity trap

- Mondher Kilani
  
  UNIL

09 November 2014