The magazine of the european research area European Commission Copenhagen, a missed chance?

 44   Warning signs of a geyser

 20   In brief

European news.  

Research under the microscope. 

Interview

 24   A fundamental researcher 

We talk with Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Prize 

in Medicine, whose discoveries in the field 

of HPVs have opened the way to vaccines 

against cervical cancer.

Report

 26   “My voice goes with you”

Anaesthesia under hypnosis has been used 

in Belgium for more than 15 years, and has 

won the support of nobility. 

Neuroscience

 30  Rendezvous in Hedonia

The TrygFonden Research Group’s members 

have set themselves the task of understand-

ing the nature of pleasure in order to be 

able to treat affective disorders. 

Energy

 32    Laser and fusion, the perfect alliance?

Access to clean, inexhaustible energy 

is the ambitious objective of the PETAL 

and HiPER projects for controlled 

thermonuclear fusion.

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