ScienceToday is the UCLouvain's web site dedicated to popularising scientific research conducted by the university and disseminating to the public the scientific progress achieved by UCLouvain's researchers.
ICTEAM in ScienceToday
ICTEAM research explained to the general public
18 September 2019
Anonymous data ... or not!
Personal data are often shared anonymously. But we know that it’s possible to reidentify people. ICTEAM researchers have just developed a model that accurately estimates the probability of a...
13 June 2019
Environment
Fighting technological obsolescence
For many, the term ‘obsolescence’ has become synonymous with the industrial conspiracy to make consumer goods unsustainable. But in addition to planned obsolescence, technological...
09 May 2019
Environment
Ultra-thin cells on steel
Solar panels have invaded the roofs of our homes. And they’ll stay there a long time even though new, more sustainable photovoltaic cells are being developed.
Electronic circuits, too,...
17 October 2018
Math thesis wins two awards
Adrien Taylor’s UCLouvain PhD thesis on optimisation, a branch of applied mathematics, earned two research awards, including the FNRS-IBM Innovation Award.
Optimisation is...
22 June 2018
Technology
Digital image compression: after JPEG
The JPEG compression format is more than 25-years-old: a canonical age in the digital age. A UCL researcher and spin-off have imagined the compression standard of tomorrow: JPEG XS.
For 25...
27 March 2018
Technology
Searching for objects lost in space
A team of researchers at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) has just completed a project on behalf of the European Space...
28 June 2016
Better big data analysis for better epidemic management
Using big data to precisely and easily predict an epidemic’s course or a virus’s spread—that’s the seemingly incredible goal of Jean-Charles Delvenne, a researcher at the Mathematical...
25 March 2016
A revolutionary technique for testing nanomaterial strength
A UCL nanoscience research team has developed a new technique for testing the strength of nanomaterials, the miniscule make-up of all sorts of everyday objects. The secret is a process much...