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SPECIAL REPORT CLIMATE
“We have done terribly little compared with the immensity of the problem.”
Interview with Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Vice-Chair of the IPCC, professor at the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics at the Catholic University of Louvain (BE).
The Big Blue turns acidic
In the shadow of global warming there is ocean acidification, also caused by CO2 anthropic emissions.
Goodbye petrol
Focus on the NEMO project, which is seeking to produce second generation biofuels, most notably from plant waste.
The tools of diagnosis
Scientific predictions of Europe’ s climate are obtaining a new level of detail. For the first time, we also have methods that enable us to judge their precision.
“All scientists must be sceptics”
What are the arguments of the ‘climate sceptics’, these scientists who oppose the majority of the climate experts?
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Interview
A fundamental researcher
We talk with Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Prize in Medicine, whose discoveries in the field of HPVs have opened the way to vaccines against cervical cancer.
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Report
“My voice goes with you”
Anaesthesia under hypnosis has been used in Belgium for more than 15 years, and has won the support of nobility.
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Neuroscience
Rendezvous in Hedonia
The TrygFonden Research Group’s members have set themselves the task of understanding the nature of pleasure in order to be able to treat affective disorders.
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Energy
Laser and fusion, the perfect alliance?
Access to clean, inexhaustible energy is the ambitious objective of the PETAL and HiPER projects for controlled thermonuclear fusion.
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Portrait
The algorithm of the gods
An outstanding researcher and accomplished businessman, Stephen Wolfram has overturned the world of science with his theories and working methods.
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Prisons
The cancer of prisons
Prison overcrowding, social divide, new forms of delinquency… Welfare state or penal state? Most criminologists are in no doubt.
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Human science
Where does religious thought come from?
EXREL, or how european scientists are studying the origins of religion and attempting to forecast future trends.
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Image of science
Warning signs of a geyser
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