University of Leuven

Want to perform better at sports? Eat spinach

Intake of nitrates, typically found in spinach, can boost sports performance particularly at high altitudes with low oxygen conditions, a study has found.

Oct 07, 2016, 00:50 AM IST

Alarming! Climate change to transform Lake Victoria into 'thunderstorm hotspot'

A new study conducted at the University of Leuven in Belgium has furnished a detail that climate change could possibly transform East Africa's Lake Victoria into a dangerous thunderstorm hotspot.

Sep 28, 2016, 09:20 AM IST

COPD may change brain structure

All study participants underwent an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compatibility check to obtain structural brain images.

Feb 10, 2016, 12:50 PM IST

Why chronically lonely teens stay lonely

The researchers charted individual trajectories of loneliness based on four annual questionnaires of 730 adolescents in Belgium.

Dec 19, 2015, 13:24 PM IST