Society

An EU-backed team is developing an innovative photonics sensor for fast and reliable food safety monitoring in Europe’s fruit and vegetable production and distribution chains.

A new study has identified seven symptoms that, taken together, can improve detection of COVID-19 infection in the community.

New research has revealed that moments of silence interspersed in music trigger similar brain activity as when we imagine a song, giving us better insight into the brain mechanism of sensory prediction.

According to an EU-funded study, unlike previously believed, the first Homo sapiens settled in the Iberian hinterland in one of the coldest periods of the last ice age, around 26 000 years ago.

Meet two of this year’s best EU-funded innovators: Finnish company MetGen, the overall Grand Prix winner, and C2CA Technology, the Netherlands, winner of the Sustainability Tech category.

Groundbreaking research into molecular construction has earned German chemist Benjamin List the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him the third EU-backed laureate this year.

Their pioneering work in complex physical systems has earned German climate modeller Klaus Hasselmann and Italian theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics, which they share with US-based climatologist Syukuro Manabe.

How do Europeans expect connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to affect driving efficiency, road safety, data protection and sustainability? A recent survey has the answers.

Researchers show us how a DNA polymer’s velocity changes as it moves through a nanosized hole, paving the way for better nanopore sensors.

Observing things we can’t understand: frustrating or intriguing? Delve into how artisanal communities have furthered scientific discovery and challenge your notion of the role of objectivity in scientific inference – listen to this episode of the CORDIScovery podcast.

Residents in the Portuguese city of Porto get help making their own compost, and urban metabolism is analysed as an important tool in transitioning to a circular economy.

Tests reveal positive leaching results for aluminium and calcium from anorthosite, pointing to the rock as a key solution to sustainable aluminium production.

Researchers have taken the characteristic that’s usually an obstacle to the design of lightweight, reliable steel structures and turned it into a mechanism that makes the metal more resistant to hydrogen-induced cracking.

DNA analysis of soil samples in Denisova Cave in Russia suggests that Denisovans, Neanderthals and modern humans may have lived there at the same time.

Researchers estimate that actions to limit global warming to well below 2 °C would boost energy sector employment from 18 to 26 million by 2050.

An innovative mobile power flow control system installed in the Bulgarian transmission grid is increasing renewable energy penetration and improving cross-border flows between Bulgaria and Romania.

Sometimes language can tell us more about the intentions and mood of the person speaking than the type of society we live in. The Language Use project builds upon this observation to provide a new metasemantic proposal.

Did a self-regulating market exist in the Bronze Age? Researchers set out to answer this question by studying the diffusion of weighing technology in western Eurasia.

Concerned by heavy traffic conditions on their residential street, Cardiff citizens have used sensors supplied by an EU-funded project to draw local government attention.

Do Europeans really wash their hands after handling raw chicken? An EU-backed study takes a closer look at five European countries’ hygiene practices in the kitchen.