Virgin olive oils are known for their excellent nutrition and health properties; but not all are created equal. OLEUM has renewed and revised analytical procedures and tools to determine their quality and authenticity before they end up on our shelves. Europe is the world’s largest producer of olive oil. Yet, a combination of growing competitiveness,…
Networking opportunities in the format of 1:1 bilateral virtual meetings among potential applicants themselves are available between 28 July and 30 November 2021. Timelines Send, receive and confirm 1:1 meetings from July 28, 2021 (09:00) to November 30, 2021 (17:00) Confirmed meetings are scheduled from July 28, 2021 (09:00) to November 30, 2021 (17:00) based on participants’…
A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the sub-Arctic. An annual report on the UK’s weather indicates extreme events are becoming commonplace in the country’s once mild climate. August 2020…
Canadian geologist claims to have discovered the oldest animal fossils. The earliest life forms we know of evolved around 3.7 billion years ago. The world’s oldest known animal, Dickinsonia, dates to about 540 million years ago. A discovery in a remote region of north-west Canada is about to change what we understood until now. According…
Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious—meaning that we have personal awareness and respond to the world around us—it has turned out to be near impossible to explain exactly how it…
We spend most of our lives in buildings but they are responsible for 40 per cent of the EU’s energy consumption and 36 per cent of its greenhouse gas emissions. A LIFE Award-winning project has the keys to change this trend. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is critical to achieving the EU’s 2050 climate…
An EU-backed computer tech company has demonstrated quantum communications over optical fibres over 600 km long, bringing us a big step closer to a quantum internet. Toshiba Europe’s Cambridge Research Laboratory has achieved a milestone in long-distance quantum communication, demonstrated for the first time on optical fibres exceeding 600 km in length. Achieved with support…
As communism imploded in 1989, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama asked if liberal democracy was “the end of history”, being the form all societies were destined to take. The past decades have suggested not. Illiberal democracies and hybrid democratic-authoritarian regimes continue to emerge. Fukuyama foresaw this possibility. He felt that citizens dissatisfied with liberty…
We may have walked on the Moon and sent probes across the solar system, but we know very little about what’s going on inside other planets. Now, for the first time, we have been able to view the interior of one, thanks to Nasa’s Mars InSight probe. The probe, which landed in 2018, is equipped…
More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first formed. These aren’t easy puzzles to solve. We can’t directly sample the inner core, so the key to unravelling its mysteries lies in…