Dams disrupt the ecosystems within and around rivers, reduce biodiversity and mess with water quality Solutions to make them more sustainable include using fish-friendly turbines or lowering their ...

When major-league consumer electronics companies like Toshiba and Fujitsu begin turning pristine microchip clean rooms into lettuce and spinach factories, something very out of the ordinary has to be ...

Europe’s €10 billion investment is paying off, even with strong US, Russian and Chinese competition. Accurate to the nearest centimetre, Galileo will offer unprecedented opportunities not only for ...

Researchers at DTU Environment have conducted several studies to gain more knowledge on plastic recycling. In Denmark, the primary focus has so far been on collecting as large amounts of plastic as ...

Nanoparticles are considered a promising weapon in the fight against tumors due to the fact that tumor tissue absorbs them more readily than healthy cells because their vascular system is more ...

At some point, every start-up faces an important challenge: creating a prototype. The goal is both to test a concept’s viability and to probe its appeal with potential investors and customers. This ...

Founded in the Swiss canton of Valais in 2014, OrphAnalytics applies a genomic algorithm to analyse documents for evidence of academic plagiarism and ghostwriting. The startup’s CEO Claude-Alain Roten ...

With CRISPR, you can for example grow tomatoes with higher vitamin content. But Europe is lagging behind, with 75% of research on gene-editing tools for plants being conducted in the US and China. The ...

The Microsoft R&D centre in Herzliya, which opened 25 years ago, was the first of its kind outside the US. Daniel Elkabetz, Business Development Director at a start-up in Haifa, was drawn to Israel by ...

“Vinderup Træindustri provided the problem with the wood chips as a challenge to the students on the Innovation Pilot course. And with 20 different challenges from 20 different companies, ranging from ...

The most popular lists base their rankings on quantifiable data, including research output, income, numbers of student and faculty size. At least one list is now adding a more subjective element: ...

Replacing tractors, robots can cut a farm’s carbon footprint by 90%. They feed and spray only the plants that need it. Thanks to plant phenotyping, French researchers give farmers as much information ...