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Engineering students build their own drones

During their first semester, students from the Bachelor in Engineering at the University of Luxembourg have worked in teams to design and develop drones.

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Better understanding satiety feeling

Researchers from the Universities of Burgundy, Paris, and Luxembourg together with other scientists from CNRS, INRA and INSERM groups have just highlighted a mechanism in the brain that led to satiety after a standard meal. It is based on a cascade of events, called neuroglial plasticity, that engages pre-synaptic mechanisms, which do not involve structural…

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Computational Poetry: How machines create art

The World Poetry Day on 21 March celebrates the unique ability of poetry to capture the creative spirit of the human mind. While many consider art and math to be two disconnected concepts, the University of Luxembourg excels in interdisciplinarity and sometimes its researchers find unconventional ways of bringing ideas together.

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Prix LeLa : le Scienteens Lab en 3e place pour l’expérience de l’année

Pour la première édition du prix LeLa, le troisième prix dans la catégorie Expérience de l’année a été attribué à un atelier de mathématiques développé par le Scienteens Lab de l’Université du Luxembourg. Intitulé « Trouver le chemin le plus court ? Grâce à la théorie des graphes ! », cet atelier permet de présenter une théorie…

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Young professionals exchange about water issues

On 12-14 February 2020, the University of Luxembourg hosted the sixth edition of the Young Water Professionals BeNeLux conference. More than 150 students, researchers, professors and professionals under 35 from all over the world attended the event on Limpertsberg campus to tackle the future of water management.

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Lecture Series “Science of Science in the Spotlight”: Effects of competition on universities. Building on the case of French universities

In France as in many other countries, higher education public policies aimed to increase the level of competition between academics, research teams, training programs but also among universities. Building on the French case, Christine Musselin identifies how these policies impact the internal government and the power relationships within universities. She shows how they modify the…

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ECOSS 35: The 35th European Conference on Surface Science

ECOSS is a traditional annual meeting directed jointly by the Surface Science Division of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) and the Surface and Interface Section of the European Physical Society (EPS).The conference provides an excellent opportunity for scientists from Europe and from all over the world to meet and discuss…

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L’Université veut réduire l’écart des genres dans les sciences

Le 11 février marque la Journée internationale des femmes et des filles de science, destinée à sensibiliser aux écarts entre les genres dans les STEM (sciences, technologies, ingénierie et mathématiques). Au cours de l’année académique 2018/2019, au total 1 689 étudiants étaient inscrits à la Faculté des Sciences, des technologies et de médecine de l’Université…

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Journée mondiale du cancer : recherche pour la biologie des tumeurs

Le cancer est l’une des principales causes de décès dans le monde. La maladie cause plus de 9 millions de décès par an, un chiffre qui devrait augmenter (figure 1). Au Luxembourg, on compte près de 3000 nouveaux cas de cancer chaque année. Les types de cancer les plus fréquents sont le cancer du sein,…

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How a surface treatment improves the inside of a solar cell

In the frame of the European project Sharc25, physicists from the University of Luxembourg with European experts have succeeded in explaining the recent efficiency improvements in thin film solar cells. The work of the whole consortium has been published in the prestigious journal Advanced Energy Materials.