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Mariya Gabriel, the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

Q&A: On Nobel Prize-quality discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and unicorns

As the world's newest Nobel Prize laureates gather for Nobel Week, EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel speaks about the incredible advancements made by scientists and the EU's commitment to creating more…

Commissioner Moedas likened the European Open Science Cloud to a 16th century coffeehouse where new ideas could circulate and flourish. Image credit - picture is in the public domain

ICT | Policy | Open Science

Digital ‘coffeehouse’ to spark new scientific ideas now ready for use

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), a virtual one-stop shop for researchers to share, access and reuse…

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Amatrice, Italy, in August 2016 killed nearly 300 people. Image credit - Amatrice Corso by Mario1952 is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-2.5 and 2016 Amatrice earthquake by Leggi il Firenzepost is licensed under CC BY 3.0

Environment | Policy | Open Science

Plate tectonics observatory to create seismic shift in earthquake research

We may never be able to entirely predict earthquakes such as those that hit central Italy in 2016, but we…

The EU has dedicated more money for migration research in its updated 2016-2017 work programme. Image credit: ‘Wien - Westbahnhof, Migranten am 5 Sep 2015’ by Bwag is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Social Sciences | Policy | Open Science

EU targets migration with 2017 research budget

The EU has adjusted its 2017 research funding plans to help bring science to bear on Europe's migration problem, enhance open science and increase innovation.

Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, has championed Open Science. Image courtesy of the European Commission

Policy | ICT | Open Science

EU launches open science cloud to take research data across borders, disciplines

The EU has outlined its plans for a European Open Science Cloud that will bring together existing infrastructures and open up scientific data across disciplines and across Member States.

Dr Henrik C. Wegener is the chair of the EU's Scientific Advice Mechanism, which for its first task will provide advice on how to measure CO2 emissions with greater real-world accuracy. Image courtesy of Dr Wegener

Policy | Transport | Interview | Open Science

Advice on CO2 vehicle emissions testing in six months – EU science panel’s Dr Henrik C. Wegener

The EU’s new Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) panel will deliver its first official advice to the European Commission – on how to close the gap between vehicle CO2 emission levels in the real world…

The European open science cloud is part of a transformation happening in research, known as open science. Image credit: Shutterstock/ gashgeron

ICT | Open Science

European science cloud on the horizon

Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.

Professor Alan Irwin believes open science can raise questions about what science is for, what it is leading to, and what kind of innovations we want to have. Photo courtesy of Alan Irwin

Science in society | Interview | Open Science

Open science should help us to question innovation – Professor Alan Irwin

Open science should mean that citizens have the chance to put questions to scientists and have a say on the kind of innovations that are being funded, according to Professor Alan Irwin from the…

Citizens are learning how to contribute to science by collecting data. Credit: Entomologische Gesellschaft Orion-Berlin

Policy | Open Science

Here’s how to become a scientist – even if you don’t have a degree

From birdwatchers travelling across the globe to stargazers watching the planets from their bedrooms - everyone can now be a scientist.

Governments could use the money spent on journal subscriptions to pay instead for publishing research papers, according to Nature Editor-in-Chief Philip Campbell. Image Credit: World Economic Forum/Sebastian Derungs

Policy | Interview | Open Science

Research papers will be free to access, eventually – Nature’s Philip Campbell

Researchers and funding agencies will foot the cost of publishing academic papers rather than readers, as academic journals adapt to a world in which open access becomes increasingly important,…

Around 228 000 people had their genomes sequenced in 2014, representing around 66 petabytes of data, or around a million Blu-ray disks. Image courtesy of ELIXIR

ICT | Health | Open Science

Personal health data clouds to give early warning for cancer, other diseases

The falling cost of gene sequencing and the prevalence of healthcare monitoring gadgets means our bodies will become data clouds that give us an early warning for diseases like cancer and…

Energy-saving smart grids and more accurate disease forecasting are just some of the potential applications of big data, says Prof. Dirk Helbing. Image: Sabina Bobst

ICT | Industry | Open Science

Open data could turn Europe’s digital desert into a digital rainforest – Prof. Dirk Helbing

Europe needs to pursue a different strategy from Silicon Valley if it is going to reap the social and economic benefits of big data, according to Dirk Helbing, Professor of Computational Social…