Navigation path

Themes
Agriculture & food
Energy
Environment
ERA-NET
Health & life sciences
Human resources & mobility
Industrial research
Information society
Innovation
International cooperation
Nanotechnology
Pure sciences
  Astronomy
  Biology
  Chemistry
  Mathematics
  Physics
  Other
Research infrastructures
Research policy
Science & business
Science in society
Security
Social sciences and humanities
Space
Special Collections
Transport

Countries
Countries
  Australia
  Austria
  Belgium
  Brazil
  Bulgaria
  Canada
  Croatia
  Cyprus
  Czech Republic
  Denmark
  Estonia
  Finland
  France
  Georgia
  Germany
  Greece
  Hungary
  Iceland
  Ireland
  Israel
  Italy
  Japan
  Kazakhstan
  Lithuania
  Netherlands
  Norway
  Poland
  Portugal
  Romania
  Russia
  Slovakia
  Slovenia
  Spain
  Sweden
  Switzerland
  Turkey
  United Kingdom
  United States


 Headlines -  Pure sciences - Mathematics

Last Update: 24-05-13

Results: 1-10 of 14  Page(s) 1 of 2  Next >> 

Tick (check) box to add article to PDF "basket"


Plastic polymer granules © Shutterstock
Plastic is getting a huge boost thanks to a team of European researchers that has found a new way to develop this material. An innovative 'recipe book' will help experts create the 'perfect plastic' with specific uses and properties. Presented in the journal Science, this study was funded in part by the DYNACOP ('Dynamics of architecturally complex polymers') project, which has clinched a Marie Curie Action 'Networks for Initial Training' grant worth almost EUR 3.5 million under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
27-10-11


Radio frequency designs are becoming more complex © Shutterstock
Scientists in Europe have pooled their knowledge and ideas to develop and deploy integrated simulation algorithms and prototype tools to overcome the barriers in both existing and future radio frequency design flows. The result is part of the ICESTARS ('Integrated circuit/EM simulation and design technologies for advanced radio systems-on-chip') project, which is funded under the 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 2.8 million.
26-11-10


Trapped ions © C. Lackner
A team of scientists led by the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has successfully performed a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. The study's findings, funded in part by the EU, were published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
22-03-10


A microchip within an electronic circuit board © Shutterstock
An EU-funded project has developed a breakthrough microchip specification language that will enable the replacement of unclear English with a mathematically precise description of processor functions and design. The design of a microchip is a tricky task. First of all there is the question of functionality. Engineers describe, in minute detail and in plain English, what a particular microchip must do. This is an essential task detailing the chip specifications for each stage of the microchip creation process: design, fabrication and verification.
27-02-08


ASPERA attempts to answer the mystery of dark matter. © Matt+
What is the Universe made of? What are gravitational waves and dark matter? These fundamental questions are being studied by astroparticle physics, a field whose time has come. It has been described as the point where particle physics meets astrophysics – or where the infinitely small meets the infinitely large. This has been an emerging field for the last ten years with the potential for some thrilling discoveries. From laboratories beneath the sea, deep underground, in the middle of remote deserts or out in space, scientists are taking on new challenges, with Europe at the forefront. Over the next few years very large scientific instruments will be developed in order to detect some of the most elusive particles in existence, and uncover the mysteries of our Universe.
02-10-07


A view inside the LHC tunnel at CERN. © CERN
European Scientists are gearing up for a series of experiments that will probe deeper into the nature of matter than ever before. At the end of August the Scientific Information Port (PIC), a centre for technology based at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) began work on the first stage of the European project Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The aim of the project is to study the origins of matter by reproducing conditions similar to those produced during the Big Bang. The PIC, as well as other computational centres around the world, began receiving data concerning cosmic rays collected using Atlas, a large ‘‘general purpose’’ particle detector. This information is to be used to test the system before the LHC starts up in the spring of 2008.
18-09-07


Poland�s induction broadens ERCIM�s scope © Matt+
The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics recently increased its numbers to 18 following the addition of two Polish universities, the University of Warsaw and the University of Wroclaw. The two universities formed a consortium of their own in a move to become the Polish branch of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, or ERCIM, network which fosters international research cooperation in ICT. Poland joins Hungary and the Czech Republic as the third country from the 2004 ascension states to join the network. The newly established branch, the Polish Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, or PLERCIM, hopes to serve as a conduit for increased cooperation between Polish researchers and their European colleagues.
21-05-07


The experimental ATLAS detector began construction in 2004. © Nikolai Schwerg
The world's largest superconducting magnet was successfully brought online recently as part of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator scheduled for full scale use in November 2007. The magnet charged and operated successfully on its first attempt. The magnet, called the Barrel Toroid, provides the powerful magnetic field for ATLAS, one of the major particle detectors for LHC.
07-12-06


The Fields Medal has been given to the world's brightest mathematicians since 1936. © IMU
The Fields Medal, maths' top prize given every four years, was bestowed in Spain upon a French mathematician of German origin for his research concerning probability theory.
18-09-06


Four-year-olds may not be able to count but they know the value of a bigger bag of grapes. © PhotoDisc
The ability to process numbers is comparable in children and adults, according to researchers in the UK. Brain scans reveal similar active areas when carrying out basic mathematical tasks, reports the open access journal PloS.
21-04-06



Results: 1-10 of 14  Page(s) 1 of 2  Next >> 

Convert article(s) to PDF

No article selected


loading


Search articles

Notes:
1) This search is for articles in the Information Centre, i.e. this site. To search all the European Commission's research and innovation sites, use the search box at the top of the page to the right of the menu.
2) In both cases, new content may take between a few minutes to a day to be indexed by the search engine and therefore to appear in the results.
3) If after clicking on a link in the search results the page is blank, please refresh the page (press F5 or CTRL-R). This problem is limited to Internet Explorer and the way it has been installed in some organisations; you should have no problem with other browsers. We will implement a solution as soon as possible.
Top Research Information Center

 
Last update: 24-05-13 | Top