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Did you know that vision has a calibrating role in locating events in space? But then how do blind people locate sound around them? The answer may surprise you... Vision’s predominant role in the perception of space We have all seen a ventriloquist perform. The ventriloquist uses...

  The small world of bacteria never ceases to amaze us. Prof. Yves Dufrêne’s team has just demonstrated that a staphylococcus is capable of clinging fiercely to a host cell in the event of mechanical stress and then ‘letting go’ beyond a certain threshold. To infect more...

Photo taken at the Bio Bio region (Chile), V. Vanacker, March 2013 Over the last century, human activities in North America have resulted in sediment movement equivalent to 3,000 years of natural erosion processes. A large-scale study published in Nature Communications reveals...

More transparency concerning the origin and ecological footprint of food is the key to building more sustainable supply chains. UCLouvain researchers took a closer look at Brazilian beef, whose production is responsible for one-fifth of the planet’s deforestation, some of it illegal....