News for p2
March 22, 2021
Fragmenting in private
In order to create a new unique being, during reproduction the genomes of the father and mother are divided and recomposed to form a new genome in a process called meiosis. This is precisely what Corentin Claeys Bouuaert is researching in order to detect flaws in the process. His latest...
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March 09, 2021
Towards more efficient thermoelectric materials
The study of the thermoelectric effect at the scale of a molecule suggests a strong possibility for improving the efficiency with which certain materials recover heat losses to produce electricity.
Observing an electric current in a single molecule is quite complicated,...
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March 04, 2021
The glass at the centre of Earth
The lithosphere is the shell of rigid rock that forms Earth’s surface, composed of crust and upper mantle, where olivine is the most abundant mineral. Beneath this rigid shell lies the asthenosphere, a ductile layer capable of slowly deforming over geological time. What happens at the...
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February 17, 2021
The magic angle of twisted graphene
Trapped tightly between two monolayers of carbon superimposed at a precise angle, electrons interact and can produce superconductivity. This is what Jean-Christophe Charlier’s team reveals in an article published in Nature. This property allows electric power to circulate without...
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October 06, 2020
Targeting our second brain to fight diabetes
Patrice Cani (UCLouvain) and Claude Knauf (INSERM) have discovered a ‘jammer’ that blocks communication between the gut and the brain, thus preventing proper regulation of sugar and causing insulin resistance in people with diabetes. They also discovered that a lipid produced by...
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