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Active Time Management: Strategies from the bacterial world

Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have uncovered how living systems – despite large differences at the level of individual properties – execute key biological processes in a timely manner.

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The release of a new book in Mathematics

Jean-Luc Marichal and Naïm Zenaïdi recently published “A Generalization of Bohr-Mollerup’s Theorem for Higher Order Convex Functions”, a distinguished book on the developments in Mathematics.

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Medicine and the end of life – experiences and insights

To mark the publication of the book Das Warschauer Konzert – oder der letzte Gang (loosely translated as “The Warsaw Concerto – or the final curtain”) by Dr. Bernard Thill, the medical education team at the University of Luxembourg organised an academic and cultural event on 5 July. The book narrates the fate of terminally…

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ILNAS publishes its Aerospace Sector Standards Analysis

In the framework of the National Standardization Strategy 2020-2030, the new edition of the Aerospace Sector Standards Analysis was presented at a workshop organized by ILNAS and the University of Luxembourg on Wednesday 29 June, 2022. The document provides an overview of the space sector and the associated normative context, while encouraging national actors to…

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University scientists receive top awards at Science Image Competition

A “sunspot”, an Antarctica mission and liquid crystals – these are the topics of three award winning images at this year’s FNR (Luxembourg National Research Fund) Science Image Competition. The objective of the annually held contest since 2019 is to show the growing role of images in scientific research, to reveal how scientific work is…

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STLE Edmond E. Bisson Best Paper Award

Scientists from University of Luxembourg and HYDAC win STLE Edmond E. Bisson Best Paper Award

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Study shows microbiome-derived formate promotes colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common and lethal malignancies in Western countries. It is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second most common cause of death from cancer in Europe (World Cancer Research Fund). In recent years, an increased morbidity in young adults has been observed in several parts of…

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BSc Physics student publishes breakthrough article on quantum chaos

The quest for the understanding of complex quantum systems and their properties occupies a central stage at the frontiers of physics, with applications ranging from material science to black holes. The pursuit of this quest has motivated emergent quantum technologies such as quantum computation. Any system in isolation is described by the celebrated Schrödinger equation,…

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Engineering students design and manufacture personal wind turbines

A group of 45 students from the Bachelor in Engineering program at the University of Luxembourg has developed personal wind turbines as part of a competitive project-based learning course. The objective of this interdisciplinary project was to charge their mobile phones with the smallest amount of wind kinetic energy.

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