Author: Alison Jones

Dr Eleftheria Vellidou believes childhood obesity in Europe has reached epidemic proportions, and the figures back her up. Around one in four children aged 7 to 9 in Europe are living with overweight, including obesity, according to the latest World Health Organization Europe survey, which examined about 470 000 children in 37 countries.  Rates climbed sharply for […]

For decades, economic growth has been treated as the clearest measure of progress. Yet rising GDP does not always translate into happier, healthier lives, and the environmental and social costs of growth are becoming harder to ignore. Martijn Burger, a professor of happiness economics at Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, believes it is time to […]

For over 14 000 years, dogs have hunted with us, guarded livestock, herded sheep and, more recently, curled up beside us on the sofa. Along the way, they have become remarkably good at reading our gestures and picking up on our cues.  Now researchers think dogs might also help answer a much bigger question: how did […]

Nearly a century after her death, Marie Skłodowska-Curie remains one of science’s most enduring symbols of curiosity and discovery. The breakthroughs she made in radioactivity transformed medicine and physics, and her legacy reaches far beyond the laboratory. “I am among those who think that science has great beauty,” she once said. Born in Warsaw at […]

Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains one of the most devastating neurological conditions, severing communication between the brain and the body and leaving millions worldwide with permanent paralysis. Despite decades of research, restoring movement after spinal cord injury has remained one of neuroscience’s most intractable problems.  An EU-funded initiative supported by the European Innovation Council offers […]