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August 29, 2018
François Massonnet
Climate prediction is his forte . At 32 years old, François Massonnet has just been appointed FNRS research associate. While he has been working on the subject for years, he looks forward to digging deeper.
His education: a civil engineering degree, enriched by courses in meteorology,...
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August 22, 2018
Environment
Forest evolution under the magnifying glass
The research was ambitious: inventory the distribution of mushrooms on a European scale. Recently published in the journal Nature, it could not have been completed without the help of collaborators throughout Europe. As the leader of the ICP Forests programme – the European forest...
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August 21, 2018
Environment
An urgent warning
Will the earth’s climate reach a tipping point beyond which the planet will become a ‘hothouse’? It’s a possibility scientists warn of in an article that’s urgent reading.
‘The article, in the “Perspectives” section of the PNAS, doesn’t report any discoveries,’1 cautions Michel Crucifix,...
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August 20, 2018
Environment
A tool for modernising European agricultural policy
Commissioned by the European Commission (EC) and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Sen4CAP research project, led by Sophie Bontemps and Nicolas Bellemans and supervised by Pierre Defourny in the Environmetrics and Geomatics Laboratory of UCL’s Earth and Life Institute, is...
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August 20, 2018
Health
When the virus ‘velcros’ to a cell
UCLouvain researchers have discovered the essential role played by a glycoprotein present on the surface of herpesviruses. These viruses are responsible for several diseases, which are potentially serious for some individuals, yet treatments are lacking.
The herpesvirus...
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