Former ice sheets occupying Scandinavia and North America left numerous landforms on today's surface that witness of their hydrological system underneath them. However, most landforms have, so far, never been observed under ...
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2017
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Pumped-storage hydroelectricity systems are to be found throughout the world, but always on a large scale. Guilherme Silva and Patrick Hendrick, researchers from the ULB Brussels School of Engineering, investigated whether ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2016
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Photovoltaic systems coupled with lead-acid batteries do not ensure electrical self-sufficiency for a residence at a reasonable cost. This is th conclusion of a study from the Université libre de Bruxelles: simulations reveal ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 12, 2016
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Stem cells ensure the development of tissues, their daily maintenance and their repair following injuries. One of the key questions in the field of stem cell biology is to define the different cell lineages in which stem ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 9, 2016
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A study led by the Laboratory Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of the Université libre de Bruxelles shows that the humivorous French Guianan termite Cavitermes tuberosus routinely practice asexual queen succession (parthenogenesis).
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2016
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Under laboratory conditions, mineral growth is a well understood physical process, and has been for a number of decades. In nature however, outside of the controlled confines of a lab, mineral formation is far more complex ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 20, 2016
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Led by François Fuks from the ULB's Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics and the ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), researchers have revealed for the first time the key role played by one of the RNA letters, hmC or hydroxymethylation. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 15, 2016
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ULB and Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech (ULg) researchers are developing models for predicting carbon levels in Central African forests based on measuring only 5% of all trees. In addition to being a lot more effective, their work ...
Environment
Aug 17, 2015
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The laws of classical mechanics are independent of the direction of time, but whether the same is true in quantum mechanics has been a subject of debate. While it is agreed that the laws that govern isolated quantum systems ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 28, 2015
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ULB study sheds a new light on the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. It shows for the first time that ice rises (pinning points that keep the floating parts of ice sheets in place) are formed during the transition between ...
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2015
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