Topics | Research and Innovation

Italian soil scientist Professor Fabio Terribile is on a mission to improve soil quality, with the help of EU funding and 19 partners across Europe.

Researchers on a mission | Cancer

On a mission to beat cancer

Italian professor of physics, Paola Taroni, is on a mission to revolutionise breast cancer screening for patients across Europe with the help of EU ...

Researchers on a mission | Climate adaptation

On a mission to make water resilient to climate change

Dutch researcher, Dr Jolijn van Engelenburg, is on a mission to safeguard our water resources as the impacts of climate change start to be felt, with ...

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Manufacturers of jet turbines have already shown interest in the new rhenium compounds identified by ProMine scientists, which are resistant to high temperatures. © Juha Kaija

Environment

Deep earth modelling to reveal vast EU deposits

High-tech 3D models of rock formations deep underground should reveal that Europe has vast concealed ore deposits, researchers believe, helping to ease Europe's dependency on imported metal.

Thanks to EU-funded research, the monitoring of bees in the hive is going wireless. © Shutterstock

Environment | Bioeconomy

How are the bees doing?

Innovative new EU-funded research aims to help tackle an alarming decline in Europe's bee population. At Nottingham Trent University in the UK researchers are developing new methods to transfer wirelessly information about the health of the hive to the beekeeper.

From locust to robot collision avoidance: collision detecting circuits from the locust brain were used to process images coming from a video camera looking at a hemispherical lens with a 360 degree field of view. Prof. Claire Rind and her team ran the images through the locust model, which generated a warning for an approaching object fed into the motor control unit of the research Khepera robot. © Newcastle University

Frontier research | ICT | Innovation Union

Locusts inspire split-second braking

Cars could brake in a split-second when faced with a possible collision, if a robotics breakthrough inspired by locusts delivers on its promise.

The prosthetic hand connected to the nervous system has already been tested. The next step in this project will be to make the implantable electrodes suitable for long-term use. © EPFL

Frontier research

Towards a genuine bionic hand

A prosthetic hand no longer needs to be just a piece of nicely moulded plastic – it can be connected and reactive, and even respond to commands directly issued by the brain.

The team of the reMYND lab is part of the EU-funded AgedBrainSYSBIO project that studies the ageing brain. The hope is to contribute to slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease. © Koen De Witte

Health

Decoding the cause of Alzheimer's disease

With Europe’s population living longer, the quest for new Alzheimer’s disease (AD) therapies has never been more urgent. Researchers hope that figuring out which genes and environmental factors trigger the illness will deliver drugs that prevent serious memory loss.

Frontier research

Walking again with an exoskeleton

People who suffer from lower limb paralysis may one day walk again thanks to the EU-funded project, MINDWALKER.

Protons collide in the CMS detector generating 4 high-energy muons (red). You might expect such a result from the decay of a Higgs boson. © CERN

Frontier research

New strategy for particle physics

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, adopted on 30 May a new global strategy for particle physics. The continuing exploitation of the Large Hadron Collider is one of its priorities. But the research body is also proposing to foster cooperation with the US and Japan on other initiatives.

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of the two experiments that detected the signal of the Higgs boson at CERN, in Geneva (CH). To detect elementary particles, physicists need huge instruments. The CMS experiment is 21 m long, 15 m wide and 15 m high. © CERN

Frontier research

Spinning particles and spin-offs

More than half a century after CERN was set up to smash and measure the building blocks of the Universe, it's discovered several new particles, won some Nobel prizes – and invented the world wide web.

It is in atmospheric regions of so-called supercell storms that tornadoes may develop. © Shutterstock

Environment

300 tornadoes hit Europe every year

The deadly tornado that hit the city of Moore near Oklahoma City in the US on 20 May dramatically highlighted such extreme weather events and their dangers. In Europe, the same phenomenon is under close scrutiny.

Cyber security is at the heart of the research done at the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, which is part of the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's in-house scientific service. © Shutterstock

Frontier research | Innovation Union

Smile... face recognition could replace passwords

Software that can read your fingerprint from a touch-screen phone and 3D face recognition could replace internet passwords and pin numbers in five years, according to an EU cyber security research expert.