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Food system labs across Africa are analysing the nutritional value of less-used crops and their potential to tackle malnutrition. © HealthyDiets4Africa, 2024
Diversifying food sources and developing underused, nutrient-rich crops could help combat malnutrition and enhance food security in Africa.
Researchers are using new technologies like AI and data analysis to help improve quality of life in urban areas. © Photography Stock Ruiz, Shutterstock.com
EU-funded researchers are using AI to help ease the flow in Europe’s cities, making urban environments both…
Using satellite data to monitor sea ice and icebergs will significantly improve safety for ships navigating the Arctic region. © Nicolas Dubreuil, 2025
With sea traffic set to rise in a warming Arctic, EU-funded researchers are helping sailors plot a safer…
As disaster readiness climbs up the EU agenda, a chief scientific advisor offers views on how Europe can harness its strengths.
The EU will soon be able to see more clearly the wider outcomes of its clean-energy drive.
European projects are helping cities and regions find the best ways to adjust to more frequent – and increasingly severe – heat waves, storms and floods.
Lessons in resilience and adaptability for urban communities are filtering in from the edges of the city and beyond.
Every day food is thrown away and squandered by the lorry-load. EU researchers are developing ways to cut waste – of both food and its packaging.
Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense, sometimes with tragic consequences. Europe's coastal cities are preparing to meet the challenges with help from nature and data from…
The most significant changes can be sudden, not gradual, if the circumstances are right. Horizon Magazine listened in on a recent discussion between leading climate change scientists on the role of '…
In June 2021, the EU's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA) published the Scientific Opinion entitled "A systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe", arguing that the clean energy…
Even with brilliant, original ideas, social innovators are often limited by funding and skills shortages when it comes to scaling up. A new Horizon Europe call is opening on May 12 2022 to set up a…
Initiatives to help citizen science projects communicate about their results are paving the way for ordinary people to take the lead as effective and trustworthy science communicators.