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BRUSSELS — In this special edition of Futuris, we report on one of the missions that the European Union is launching to find solutions to the main challenges of our time.Five missions shape this initiative, part of the incoming Horizon Europe initiative which will begin in 2021: Carbon-neutral and Smart Cities, Soil Health and Food, Adaptation to climate change, the Fight against Cancer and the Protection of our Oceans and Inland waters.Our seas, oceans, coastal zones, glaciers and inland waters produce around half of the oxygen we breathe and provide 16% of the animal proteins we consume. But these rich and fragile ecosystems are under threat from climate change, pollution, over-fishing and tourism.How do we protect these environments and preserve their socio-economic value?Pascal Lamy...
December 09, 2020
Researchers regenerate underwater biodiversity destroyed by human activity
November 01, 2020
Satellites are mapping out every tree on Earth using AI
October 24, 2020
A controllable membrane to pull carbon dioxide out of exhaust streams
October 17, 2020
Scientists uncover new clues about Parkinson’s disease
October 03, 2020
Validating the physics behind the new MIT-designed fusion experiment
September 30, 2020
IQM staff publishes a quantum-computer breakthrough in Nature
September 26, 2020
Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat
By Jennifer Chu The search for life beyond Earth has largely revolved around our rocky red neighbor. NASA has launched multiple rovers over the years, with a new one currently en route, to sift through Mars’ dusty surface for signs of water and other hints of habitability.Now, in a surprising twist, scientists at MIT, Cardiff University, and elsewhere have observed what may be signs of life in the clouds of our other, even closer planetary neighbor, Venus. While they have not found direct evidence of living organisms there, if their observation is indeed associated with life, it must be some sort of “aerial” life-form in Venus’ clouds — the only habitable portion of what is otherwise a scorched and inhospitable world. Their discovery and analysis is published today in the journal...
September 20, 2020
Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus
By Jennifer ChuFor all its vast emptiness, the universe is humming with activity in the form of gravitational waves. Produced by extreme astrophysical phenomena, these reverberations ripple forth and shake the fabric of space-time, like the clang of a cosmic bell.Now researchers have detected a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger yet observed in gravitational waves. The product of the merger is the first clear detection of an “intermediate-mass” black hole, with a mass between 100 and 1,000 times that of the sun.They detected the signal, which they have labeled GW190521, on May 21, 2019, with the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), a pair of identical, 4-kilometer-long interferometers in the United States;...
September 18, 2020
A ‘bang’ in LIGO and Virgo detectors signals most massive gravitational-wave source yet
September 09, 2020
Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs
