Two major illnesses in Europe have prompted EU researchers to hunt for cures by grouping affected people. By Anthony King Professor Rick Grobbee believes the key to better treatment for individual patients with heart disease is to look at large numbers of them. This approach can reveal different subgroups of disease. Grobbee, a researcher at … Read more
Science lessons across Europe come to life through a push towards “open schooling”. By Andrew Dunne In a part of Sweden northeast of Stockholm, Nina Berglund likes trying out new ways to teach her science students aged 10 to 12. Berglund recently invited a physics professor named Staffan Yngve to her class in the municipality … Read more
Europe is pushing to create a network infrastructure based on quantum physics. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In May 2023, Dr Benjamin Lanyon at the University of Innsbruck in Austria took an important step toward creating a new kind of internet: he transferred information along an optical fibre 50 kilometres long using the principles of quantum physics. … Read more
As new technologies reshape workplaces, EU research has come up with new ways to help companies and workers stay in control. By ANDREW DUNNE Professor Steven Dhondt has a reassurance of sorts for people in the EU worried about losing their jobs to automation: relax. Dhondt, an expert in work and organisational change at the Catholic … Read more
Touch sensations are improving to help sectors like healthcare and manufacturing, while other advances are being driven by the gaming industry. By HELEN MASSY-BERESFORD Imagine a single technology that could help a robot perform safety checks at a nuclear plant, cure a person’s arachnophobia and simulate the feeling of a hug from a distant relative. Welcome … Read more
“Smart” technologies in homes reduce energy use and bills, prompting stepped-up European research in the field. They may lack the environmental wow factor of switching to an electric car or giving up flying, but energy improvements in buildings cut emissions that cause global warming and make life more comfortable for occupants. Buildings are the biggest … Read more