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November 24, 2017
Technology
Turning wood into gas
On 24 November, Xylowatt will begin operating a gas generator at CHU UCL Namur. Fuelled by biomass, it will supply the hospital with heat and electricity. This is a direct consequence of 20 years of research at the Louvain School of Engineering.
When it came time in 2001 to christen the young...
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October 19, 2017
Health
Chronic pain: a new path toward treatment?
Sufferers of chronic pain in a limb perceive the space around the limb less accurately, according to a study by Lieve Filbrich and Valéry Legrain, researchers at the UCL Institute of Neuroscience. Chronic pain’s impact on vision suggests complex changes in the patient’s brain as well as the...
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October 16, 2017
Society
Food: a public commons?
World hunger continues to increase, affecting 777 million people in 2015 and 815 million in 2016. Would it help if we changed the way we look at food in our societies? That’s the idea of José Luis Vivero-Pol.
His 20 years in the field of food security and nutrition inspired José Luis...
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September 26, 2017
Environment
Pay to prevent deforestation
To objectively evaluate an anti-deforestation programme, an international team of researchers carried out a randomised study in Uganda, the first of its kind in environmental science. The surprising results have been published in the journal Science.
Human activity (heating, transport,...
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August 29, 2017
Inside the brain of the profoundly deaf
The brain is divided into areas, each of which processes specific information. If a certain type of information is missing – such as sounds – the brain reorganises itself... but not at random!
We have various areas in the brain which are intended to process specific types of sensory...
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