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September 16, 2020
Health
Preventing the coronavirus-cell bond
While some scientists seek a vaccine against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), others try to understand the virus’s entry mechanism. For months Prof. David Alsteens's laboratory team has been trying to answer two questions: How does SARS-CoV-2 enter our cells and how can it be prevented...
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September 10, 2020
Science and health
Piecing together the primary lymphoedema puzzle
What causes lymphoedema, the swelling of parts of the body from the build-up of lymph fluid? Until recently, no one knew. This was before research carried out by Prof. Miikka Vikkula and his Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory, which has identified a new gene responsible for primary...
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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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