SciLux on LinkedIn: SciLux on Tour 14 (2024)

It is time to design policies that will combat poverty without relying on economic growth. In the latest episode going live next Tuesday, two experts in child poverty, Dr. Anne-Catherine Guio (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)) and Prof. Olivier De Schutter (Université catholique de Louvain) have shared their findings. Olivier De Schutter is also UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and together with Anne-Catherine, Eric Marlier and Hugh Fraser he co-authored a book called ‘Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage’.Listen to the episode when it goes live on Tuesday, 7th May at 6 am CET. Available wherever you get your podcasts and proudly powered by Research Luxembourg.#childpoverty #extremepoverty #Luxembourg #sciencepodcast

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Our listeners are already familiar both with some discussions around gut microbiome as well as some cancer research. Time to combine them both and listen to the fascinating Patrick Dang (Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg and Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine/University of Luxembourg) and Michael Dang (National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg).The episode about #GutMicrobiome, #Immunotherapy and #TargetedTreatment goes live on Tuesday, 23rd April at 6 am CET. Available wherever you get your podcasts.This SciLux episode is proudly powered by Research Luxembourg.

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Are you a teacher at a primary school in Luxembourg? Or a parent who would like to find additional activities to do with their children? Or just a curious mind? There’s a brand new resource for you made by science.lu and SCRIPT!If you are a teacher, very clearly described and illustrated scientific experiments can be found in a book that you can order as a teacher via the ministry.If you’re not a teacher – the materials are also available online. The descriptions are not in English, but German and French. If these are not your languages, you may treat it as a good opportunity to learn from very interesting texts. What is also great about them is that they always start with a question – guiding us through the scientific method and making hypotheses.🎈Time to blow some balloons or learn how our taste works! 😝More info at: https://lnkd.in/evMDu9Ng#scicomm #sciencexperiments #scienceatschool #madeinLuxembourg #SciLuxonTourMichele Weber

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🧪 More than two years ago we talked to Prof. Emma Schymanski from Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) - University of Luxembourg and it seems that some trends concerning persistent compounds haven't changed.📆 Want to know more about #exposomics and #cheminformatics as well as working with other disciplines? Listen to the latest episode with Dr. Dagny Aurich when it goes live on Tuesday, 9th April at 6 am CET.🇱🇺 Proudly powered by Research Luxembourg and available on all major podcasting platforms.#HistoricalExposomics

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Post-Easter Egg Post 😊We must admit that we didn’t spend enough time to really say that this was a proper scientific search, but every year we are surprised to discover that in our usual supermarkets and grocery shops in Luxembourg we cannot find white eggs to die them for Easter. And no, we don’t want to buy eggs already coloured by someone else.As this year was no different, after a pretty long search we ended up asking ourselves – how come some chicken eggs are brown and some are white?It seems that it is mostly related with the hen breed (usually white hens lay white eggs and brown hens, brown). In some sources they also claim that the colour of the hen’s earlobes plays a role. Lastly, another determining factor can be the hen’s age – older hens tend to lay paler eggs.And no, the egg colour does not affect the nutritional value of it.In exchange for this little piece of science, please share in comments places in Luxembourg where we can buy white eggs 😉Sources:British Hen Welfare Trust (https://lnkd.in/evauFvTj)BBC Science Focus Magazine (https://lnkd.in/ezJz2qvX)American Egg Board (https://lnkd.in/ez78fq6M)#Easter #shoppinginLuxembourg #eggs #foodscience #SciLuxonTour

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🥼In certain episodes we tend to wander a little bit more in the world of science. This was very much the case in the latest one in which we interviewed a theoretical physicist - Prof. Massimiliano Esposito, but also a physical chemist - Dr. Emanuele Penocchio (Northwestern University).Both experts took us on a fascinating journey through non-equilibrium thermodynamics and chemical engines, focusing especially on kinesins. We also spent time going back to basics, as it is the usual approach in this podcast.🎧Remember to listen to it when it goes live on Tuesday, 26th March at 6 am CET. Available on all major podcasting platforms.🇱🇺 As usual proudly powered by Research Luxembourg and recording at the MediaCentre of the University of Luxembourg.#thermodynamics #theoreticalphysics #kinesins #sciencepodcast

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