Vegetable oil-based biofuels, in particular, those produced from palm oil, are increasingly used as alternatives to fossil fuels, despite rising controversy over their sustainability. This has promoted to the continuous
Archive for February 2020
Seasonal pumped hydropower storage (SPHS) — an already established, yet rarely used technology — could be used to store water and energy providing a provide much-needed affordable way to store
While Nutri-Score is the French government’s candidate for a long-awaited front-of-package (FOP) labelling system that the EU one day hopes to implement across its territory, it is far from the
Despite it’s being a long, northern country with young cows, suspicion towards other countries, self-imposed regulations and a grain market that could use improvement, it’s easier to make money on
The first ‘cell atlas’ of the human thymus gland, presented in a new paper published on 21 February in Science (1), will help researchers understand how the immune system changes
Belgium’s green political parties are selectively blind for scientic evidence regarding 5G
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On 11 December, the Belgian federal Parliament hosted a hearing regarding the challenges for the Belgian rollout of 5G, the most advanced mobile technology. One of the most important issues
The closure of Fessenheim, transposition of the CJEU ruling on plant biotechnology by the French Council of State, locust invasion in Africa… the news on scientific and technical policy is
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that may be contributing far more to climate change than previously thought. In a new paper published on 19 February in Nature, the authors
Scientists are using machine learning techniques to sift through millions of molecules in search of effective new antibiotics. In a new paper published on 20 February in the journal Cell,
The benefits of adding more iron to the oceans — known as iron fertilisation — would be limited, at least on a global scale, according to a new study published