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To draw up an inventory of the abyssal fauna; this was the ambitious objective of the Australian international mission in which Jérôme Mallefet participated. Over a month of intensive work in search of bioluminescent species was on the agenda. An interview. If there is a fauna that...

Flowers emit a sweet perfume that attracts not only pollinating insects, but human beings, who use them to create perfumes widely used in cosmetics. But how do these flowers emit them into the air? François Lefèvre and Baptiste Pierman, researchers at the UCL Life Sciences Institute, are part of...

UCL researchers have made the troubling discovery that macrolides, the antibiotics frequently prescribed to sufferers of cystic fibrosis, foster resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterium found just about everywhere in nature. To healthy people, it’s...

Europe has its roots in many influences, including the rational thought that emerged in Andalusia when Muslims occupied most of the Iberian peninsula. Godefroid de Callataÿ, a researcher and professor at UCL’s Institute of Civilisation, Arts and Letters (INCAL), has demonstrated how these...