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Hydrogen could play a key role in decarbonising the chemical industry and storing green electricity. But there is still some way to go to improve sector capacities and lower production costs. A new electrode design involved in water electrolysis could help. Tough luck: the most abundant...

The Medical Microbiology Laboratory has acquired state-of-the-art equipment to better detect mutations in the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. A first in Belgium. According to UNAIDS, the United Nations agency in charge of combatting AIDS, in 2017, 36.9 million people worldwide were...

For many, the term ‘obsolescence’ has become synonymous with the industrial conspiracy to make consumer goods unsustainable. But in addition to planned obsolescence, technological obsolescence is of great concern. Iconic but controversial, the light bulb that has burned virtually without...

The energy transition, in concrete terms: that’s what Prof. Hervé Jeanmart and his team have been studying at UCLouvain for three years. In 2015, with a consortium of five universities, they responded to Engie's call for proposals on the future of energy and the various vectors that can be...