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September 09, 2020
Environment
Never before seen fusion of giant black holes!
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Huge black holes that aren't supposed to merge have ... merged! Thus forming a monster 142 times the mass of the sun. It’s a totally unexpected observation that calls into question the models of black hole formation. UCLouvain’s Sébastien Clesse and Giacomo Bruno...
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August 04, 2020
Environment
Where’s the water on Venus?
The presence of water on planets composed mainly of rocks and metals, such as Earth, Mars or even Venus, dates back to the earliest stages of their formation. This is shown by numerical simulations by a group of Belgian researchers whose results are published in Nature Geoscience....
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July 31, 2020
Sciences et technologie
A carbon cage for computer data
Spintronics offers new application possibilities for computer data storage, transfer and processing, but the technology’s main drawback is the instability of spin information transport. In the journal Science Advances, UCLouvain and University of Paris researchers present a carbon...
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July 30, 2020
Coronavirus : research
Better COVID-19 prevention, detection and treatment
Over just a few weeks, COVID-19 has been ‘invited’ into several research projects at UCLouvain, particularly at the Centre for Applied Molecular Technologies (CTMA), where half a dozen preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic studies are already underway.
Unknown six months ago, the now...
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July 30, 2020
Coronavirus: research
COVID-19: detection and (de)contamination
COVID-19 has been ‘invited’ into several research projects at UCLouvain, particularly at the Centre for Applied Molecular Technologies (CTMA), where several studies or programmes related to environmental and operational research and logistics are underway.
UCLouvain researchers...
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