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A cyberattack occurs every 39 seconds. This alarming statistic(*) highlights the constant threat to today's security systems.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its Starting Grants.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its Advanced Grants for ground-breaking research. Three KU Leuven researchers are among this year's recipients: Luc De Raedt, Stefaan Poedts and Greet Van den Berghe.

Supernovas are the spectacular end result of the collapse of stars with a mass greater than 8-10 times that of the sun.

The µFlow Cell of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is happy to share that it is a subcontractor of Redwire Space NV, which has been awarded a 14 million euro contract to design, develop, and

Two University of Luxembourg researchers of the Master in Architecture programme and the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, Francelle Cane and Marija Maric, were selected to represent Luxembourg at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale with their project titled - Down to Earth -.

On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, proclaimed on February 11 by the United Nations General Assembly, discover the portraits and testimonials of UNamur scientists

The European Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS 2 ) promises a powerful new space-based communication infrastructure for the EU.

RHEA System Luxembourg S.A. POST Luxembourg, HITEC Luxembourg, the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), evolutionQ Inc.

The VUB-ULB Interuniversity Institute for High Energies (IIHE) is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The institute researches the smallest and largest building blocks of our world. Throughout its 50 years of existence, the IIHE has always been at the forefront of the revolution taking place in contemporary physics and therefore in our understanding of everything from the smallest elements of nature to the very largest structures in the universe.

VUB Gaming is only Belgian university team in international UniRocketeers competition VUB Gaming is a new association for gaming and esports.

Two young VUB scientists have each received a Frank De Winne fellowship from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

Songs, animations, paintings, short stories, sketches, illustrations, the announcement of the discovery of TRAPPIST-1 by Michaël Gillon - in February 2017 during a press conference at the NASA headquarters - inspired many people and groups around the world. Some very scientific and some more personal.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the design of the PLATO satellite. Researchers and engineers at KU Leuven and the University of Liège (ULg) will be closely involved in the development. Plato is a space mission dedicated to hunting tens of thousands of Earth-like exoplanets revolving around nearby stars similar to our Sun.

Mission to Mars Crew 178 is composed of seven UCL students and mentored by Frank De Winne , a Belgian astronaut and the first European commander of the International Space Station.