An average temperature of -30°C and up to 24 hours of darkness a day. Those were the working conditions for a team of EU-funded scientists who spent nine months researching snow in the Arctic. “Very white, vast and cold,” is how snow expert Dr Marie Dumont describes the field campaign in Cambridge Bay, also known […]
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On a Sunday evening in June 2022, a patient walked into a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. “I remember it very clearly,” says Mayara Secco, the doctor responsible for handling emergency cases that night. “The patient just returned from Europe and had a single lesion on his body. He didn’t have fever or any other […]
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Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience sound almost like miracles: neurostimulation techniques that help paralysed patients to walk again, or an implant that could help restore vision to the blind. These are just two of the many results of the landmark Human Brain Project (HBP), a 10-year-long EU-funded research initiative that has significantly increased science’s understanding of the […]
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For many Europeans, Cyprus and Malta represent a distant Mediterranean paradise. But despite their sunny climate, the two are less able to capitalise on their wealth of sunshine and potential clean energy than one may expect. One solution has been for these small island nations to partner up with expert research partners from bigger EU […]
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