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e-Health platform to improve lifestyle for elderly
Cases of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and dementia in the senior population are often the result of lifestyle-related risk factors. This offers opportunities for prevention – a call to which one EU-funded project is responding with an interactive online platform.

Physical sciences, Earth sciences

Portal gathers key actors to share and discover climate innovations
Are great climate adaptation ideas not reaching the market? A new portal bridges the gap between innovators and end users of products and services that reduce climate-related risks.

Space science

Trending Science: A helicopter on Mars? Wait for it in 2020
NASA announces plans to send a helicopter to the Red Planet on its next rover mission.

Engineering, manufacturing and construction

Sharing the workplace with robots? New tool helps designers create safer machines
A research team is helping robot developers design machines less likely to injure the humans they work with. How? With their novel ‘safety map’.

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Minor cereals offer major promise for organic farming
The potential benefits of less cultivated varieties of cereals are garnering more interest in a drive towards healthy nutrition.

Biology

e-Health platform to improve lifestyle for elderly
Cases of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and dementia in the senior population are often the result of lifestyle-related risk factors. This offers opportunities for prevention – a call to which one EU-funded project is responding with an interactive online platform.

IT, Information, Media

Exposing state crimes and human rights abuses through architecture
A multidisciplinary research team is harnessing modern technology to provide new types of evidence on war crimes and human rights violations.

Mathematics

Crosstalk in social dilemmas could hinder cooperation
A new mathematical framework taking into account ‘crosstalk’ and incorporating the impact of players’ interactions in simulations of repeated social dilemmas could help better analyse cooperation dynamics within a population.

Security

Sharing the workplace with robots? New tool helps designers create safer machines
A research team is helping robot developers design machines less likely to injure the humans they work with. How? With their novel ‘safety map’.

Social sciences

Exposing state crimes and human rights abuses through architecture
A multidisciplinary research team is harnessing modern technology to provide new types of evidence on war crimes and human rights violations.