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  RESEARCH | Asteroid (44) Nysa reveals a three-lobed shape and has a mini moon 🔭 ⭐ An international team of astronomers has unveiled new evidence that asteroid (44) Nysa may possess a unique trilobate structure and is accompanied by a previously unknown moon. The study combines high-resolution adaptive optics imaging with high-precision photometry to provide the most detailed view of Nysa to date. 👉️ https://www.cometa.uliege.be/cms/c_13702092/en/asteroid-44-nysa-reveals-a-three-lobed-shape-an...

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  NEUROSCIENCES | L’analyse du sommeil pour mieux repérer les personnes à risque de développer #Alzheimer 💤🧠 Une équipe de l’Université de Liège (GIGA Neurosciences) a analysé le sommeil de plus de 500 personnes afin d’explorer le lien entre sommeil et risque génétique de maladie d’Alzheimer. Chez les participants âgés de 50 à 69 ans, un risque génétique plus élevé était associé à une fréquence accrue des micro-réveils nocturnes... 👉 https://www.giga.uliege.be/cms/c_13703369/fr/le-sommeil-pourr...

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  PALAETONLOGY | Climate change decided who ruled as top predator 35 million years ago 🐺 🦷 A new study published in Biology Letters challenges the idea that competition alone determined which predatory mammals dominated after the extinction of the dinosaurs. 👉️ https://www.eddylab.uliege.be/cms/c_13705536/en/climate-change-decided-who-ruled-as-top-predator-35-million-years-ago #science #research #biology

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  CARTE BLANCHE | L'adaptation ne suffira pas, il nous faudra une révolution Depuis la révolution industrielle, nous avons ouvert une ligne de crédit à charge de la biosphère. Aujourd'hui, la facture tombe : des canicules meurtrières (78 % de surmortalité cet été en Wallonie) et des incendies inédits jusque sur le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes ! La santé des milieux est aussi la nôtre. Il nous faut réinventer les formes collectives capables d'en prendre soin. https://www.lal...

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  A 700-tonne crane, a huge vacuum chamber (100 tons) sliced into three sections. A few centimeters of clearance through the roof. On 25 August, the CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège) pulled off one of its most delicate lifts ever: installing FOCAL7, soon one of Europe's largest vacuum chambers. 🛰 FOCAL 7 will serve both Earth-observation missions and purely scientific missions, across a wide range of wavelengths. 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfL3FRinEZ8 👉️ https://www.news.uliege.be/c...

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  RESEARCH | Why does Mercury wear a crust of graphite? 🛰️ 🌑 As the BepiColombo mission enters the final phase of its journey toward Mercury, researchers at the University of Liège and KU Leuven have used experimental petrology to reconstruct the earliest evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. 👉️ https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_13721964/en/how-mercury-formed-its-graphite-crust-and-core @Nature #astronomy #ESA #space

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  RESEARCH | Predicting response to biologics for severe asthma through breath analysis 🫁 👄 A study shows that a signature of volatile molecules present in breath can be used to predict how patients with severe asthma will respond to biologics targeting interleukin-5. 👉 https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_13723711/en/predicting-response-to-biologics-for-severe-asthma-through-breath-analysis #asthma #pneumology #biotherapy #health @plymuni

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  RESEARCH | Inflammatory Bowel Disease A team led by researchers at the University of Liège has taken an important step forward by establishing functional links between numerous IBD risk variants and the genes they regulate in immune and intestinal cells. 👉️ https://www.giga.uliege.be/cms/c_13721377/en/inflammatory-bowel-disease-genetics-paving-the-way-for-new-treatments #health

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  RESEARCH 🐟 🎶 | How reef fish evolved their sounds How does acoustic communication diversify over evolutionary time in fishes? A new study led by Marine Banse and Eric Parmentier addresses this in Holocentridae, a family of nocturnal reef fishes comprising soldierfishes and squirrelfishes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswBZjkryZo 👉️ https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_13725238/en/in-soldierfish-and-squirrelfish-evolution-diversifies-sounds-without-reinventing-the-instrument #biology #evolu...

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  PODCAST 🎧 | Et si observer le ciel nocturne à dix ans pouvait donner envie de consacrer sa vie à comprendre les étoiles ? Dans ce nouvel épisode du podcast « À la source », rencontre avec Valérie Van Grootel, astrophysicienne et maître de recherches FNRS au sein du laboratoire ASTA à la Faculté des Sciences de l'ULiège. Qu'est-ce qui l'a amené à l'astrophysique ? Qu'est-ce qui la passionne dans sa recherche aujourd'hui ? 👉️ https://www.podcasts.u...

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  RESEARCH 🌳 | Climate subtly shapes carbon stocks in mature tropical forests An international study shows that, in mature tropical forests, climate influences carbon stocks primarily through stand structure. As its effects on the various components of this structure tend to cancel each other out, the relationship between climate and carbon remains difficult to detect and varies significantly from one region to another. https://www.gembloux.uliege.be/cms/c_13732742/en/climate-subtly-shapes-carbo...

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  RESEARCH | Spotting plant stress from space #ESA has launched FLEX, a satellite mission designed to measure chlorophyll fluorescence from orbit. ULiège was involved in the development of the satellite’s measuring instrument and will carry out reference drone flights to link the orbital signal to ground measurements. The resulting data are expected to support crop-yield forecasting and to improve the representation of the carbon cycle in climate models. 👉️ https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_...

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  RENTRÉE ACADÉMIQUE 26-27 | 🎓 Mardi, les autorités rectorales ouvraient l’année académique 2026-2027. Au cours de cette année, l'ULiège accueillera trois docteur·es honoris causa dans le cadre des Grandes Conférences Universitaires : Nelly Polyak, Professeure à la Harvard Medical School 📅 25 novembre 2026 Pierre Haski, président de Reporters sans frontières 📅 22 mars 2027 Jane C. Ginsburg, Professeure à la Colombia Law School 📅 11 mai 2027 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDcqh-j5sA...

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  RESEARCH | Triple-negative breast cancer In a study published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, researchers from the GIGA Institute (ULiège) demonstrate that methylglyoxal, a byproduct of tumor metabolism, contributes to the creation of an environment that favors the progression of triple-negative breast cancer and resistance to immunotherapy. 👉️ https://www.giga.uliege.be/cms/c_13723905/en/triple-negative-breast-cancer-methylglyoxal-at-the-heart-of-immune-evasion #cancer #breastcan...

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  RESEARCH | Molecular biology Researchers have captured, at near-atomic resolution, the trans-spliceosome, a molecular machine essential to the parasites behind sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis. It does not exist in this form in humans, which makes it a promising drug target. https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_13735307/en/researchers-reveal-snapshots-of-a-key-molecular-machine-in-tropical-parasites

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  RESEARCH | Rethinking radiotherapy to better fight pancreatic cancer In a landmark review published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, researchers from GIGA and Liège University Hospital, together with colleagues from Gustave Roussy and Fox Chase Cancer Center, propose a new therapeutic perspective: viewing radiotherapy as a tool capable of stimulating the immune system and enhancing the efficacy of immunotherapy. 👉️ https://www.giga.uliege.be/cms/c_13722315/en/rethinking...

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  Contribuez à la conservation d'un patrimoine exceptionnel en soutenant l'Université de Liège et le Préhistomuseum dans la sauvegarde du Crâne de l’enfant d’Engis, premiers restes d'un Homme de Néandertal découverts en 1830. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsiu8LwtZhQ 👉️ https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20735471/fr/le-crane-de-l-enfant-d-engis #patrimoine #néandertal #belgique

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  RESEARCH | A perpendicular electric field to reverse the polarisation of a ferroelectric material ⚡🧑‍🔬 Researchers from the University of Liège, in collaboration with teams from universities in the United States and Spain, have identified a new mechanism in a ferroelectric material, bismuth titanate. 👉 https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_13701472/en/a-perpendicular-electric-field-to-reverse-the-polarisation-of-a-ferroelectric-material #research #science #physics

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  2021 floods Five years ago, the July 2021 floods devastated the Vesdre valley and western Europe: 200+ deaths, tens of billions in damage. Since then, engineers at ULiege's HECE lab have run four studies to understand what happened, and to respond better next time: reconstructing the flood, validating models, mapping debris under bridges, and pinpointing what really damages homes. 👉 https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20690914/en/the-2021-floods-five-years-of-research-by-the-hece-laboratory-...

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  RESEARCH ☄️ Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever seen, may be older than the Sun. An international team measured its carbon and nitrogen isotopes with ESO's Very Large Telescope, revealing a chemistry that points to an ancient, low-metallicity star. 👉 https://www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_13694254/en/the-interstellar-comet-3i/atlas-is-older-than-our-sun @esoastronomy@mastodon.social @nature@sciencemastodon.com

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  Félicitations à Benoît Vandenbulcke, Chargé de cours à la Faculté d’Architecture de l’ULiège, qui figure parmi les lauréats du prestigieux Prix Mies van der Rohe 2026, la plus haute distinction en architecture contemporaine en Europe. En tant qu’associé du bureau AgwA, il a contribué à la transformation du Palais des Expositions de Charleroi, un projet salué à l’échelle internationale. https://www.archi.uliege.be/cms/c_13675308/fr/benoit-vandenbulcke-agwa-prime-au-prix-mies-van-der-rohe-2026...

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  ÉMISSION | Une seule santé - #OneHealth Dans cet épisode de LABO4, des chercheurs de l'ULiège vous emmènent aux quatre coins du monde pour explorer les liens invisibles qui unissent la #santé des humains, des animaux et de la nature. Comment un virus passe-t-il de l'animal à l'homme ? Pourquoi les antibiotiques utilisés dans un élevage africain nous concernent-ils directement ? Et si des oiseaux migrateurs transportaient déjà vers la Belgique les virus de demain ? ht...