An EU-funded project unveiled AI-powered digital beings that offer the best of visual quality and emotional conversation: they show true sentience, perception and feelings. People increasingly rely on software agents in their lives, from searching for information to chatting with a bot. These goal-oriented computer programmes are spreading wide across many fields to assist, take […]
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Europe boosts the production of water from the air from Cordoba
GENAQ, a young company that has developed a technology capable of obtaining pure water from the air, autonomously, economically, without installation and respectful of the environment. Water is a right, not a privilege. However, this is not the reality that lives much of humanity. One in four people worldwide still lacks access to safe drinking […]
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How does self-healing concrete work?
EU policies are increasingly geared towards a more circular economy, driven by more sustainable materials, technologies, practices and behaviour. Efforts to decrease needless waste often cite the ‘five Rs’ – refuse, reduce, reuse (or repair), repurpose and recycle – as a means to achieve this. Currently, fixing damage or deterioration to physical infrastructure, such as […]
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Cleaning up our oceans with smart robots
EU-backed researchers are deploying a fleet of autonomous robots to tackle litter on the ocean surface and floor. The EU-funded SeaClear project’s successful development of an autonomous robotic system that can find and remove litter from the ocean floor has led to further European funding under a second project, SeaClear2.0. Launched in January 2023, SeaClear2.0 […]
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Reducing Europe’s reliance on rare earths
A new approach to high-performance magnet manufacturing could make Europe less dependent on rare earth elements as it transitions towards a zero-carbon economy. Scientists supported by the EU-funded ExtendGlass project may have a found a new way to make the high-performance magnets we need for our low-carbon technologies. Described in a study published in the […]
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What can we expect from science in 2023?
From exciting space missions to the place where nuclear waste goes to die, these will be some of Europe’s most fascinating science stories of 2023. The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the Euclid space telescope to explore the universe’s evolution. It will create a 3D map of the universe as it orbits the […]
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Industrial investments in research and development in the EU again on the rise
The 2022 edition of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, published by the Commission, shows that Europe’s industry is back on track in research and development investments with an increase of 8.9% in 2021 compared to the -2.2 % pandemic-related dip in 2020. The EU remains the global leader in R&D investments by the automotive sector, where the transformation […]
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ICT security measures used by EU enterprises in 2022
In 2022, 92% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees and self-employed persons used at least one measure in order to ensure integrity, availability and confidentiality of their data and ICT systems. This information comes from data on ICT usage and e-commerce in enterprises published by Eurostat. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article. […]
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New Copernicus data access service
The Commission welcomes the procurement of a new Copernicus data access service following the signature of a contract between the European Space Agency and a consortium led by T-Systems International. This service will empower users with immediate access to extremely large amounts (petabytes) of earth observation digital data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites constellation. This […]
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