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May 07, 2018
Society
Why we don’t consume ethically
Presented every two years, the inter-university Philippe de Woot Award aims to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) by recognising a master’s dissertation. Among the three dissertations short-listed for the 2018 award was that of Jeanne Cassiers and Audrey Herbeuval, of the Louvain...
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March 27, 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 Agency (ESA) whose goal is somewhat puzzling: locating objects lost in space. Known for its sense of...
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March 22, 2018
Health
The secret weapons of S. salivarius
Streptococcus salivarius is a bacterium that lives peacefully in our digestive tract. A team of researchers at UCL has highlighted the communication and attack mechanisms that allow it to fight other bacteria with which it competes and that are sometimes harmful to us.
In numerical terms, the...
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March 22, 2018
Society
A chair on the Europe of Europeans
On 15 February, the Anthropology of Contemporary Europe Chair(1) organised its first thematic day, focusing on the Danube. The new chair, launched in September at UCL, aims to build a network of researchers interested in the experience and representations of Europeans in all their...
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March 22, 2018
Health
Preventing cardiac hypertrophy
UCL researchers have discovered a new mechanism at work in cardiac hypertrophy, which could pave the way to a more targeted treatment of this potentially harmful condition.
The least that can be said of the heart is that it never rests. It beats an average of 100,000 times a day. At each...
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