http://ec.europa.eu//research/index.cfm?pg=whatsnew en Fri, 24 May 2013 11:33:50 GMT http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=rss For more RSS news feeds click the link above. Fri, 24 May 2013 11:33:50 GMT http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=rss http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_07_11_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=26093 An 18-member international team of researchers has found exciting new evidence that supports the theory of an extraterrestrial impact that occurred nearly 13 000 years ago. Their evidence lies in material found in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania and South Carolina in the United States and in Syria. This material stands out because at the time it was created it could only have been formed at 1 700 to 2 200 degrees Celsius and as a result of a cosmic body impacting Earth. All together this points to evidence that could strongly support the controversial Younger Dryas Boundary hypothesis.]]> Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-07-11:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_07_11_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=26093 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_06_20_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=25353 A European team of researchers has discovered that a Grand Minima of solar activity can affect climate conditions. Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, in collaboration with Swedish and Dutch colleagues, have provided evidence for a direct solar-climate linkage on centennial timescales. What the scientists found was that an abrupt cooling in Europe, together with an increase in humidity and in particular wind, coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2 800 years ago.]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-06-20:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_06_20_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=25353 http://ec.europa.eu/research/evaluations/index_en.cfm Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-04-17:/evaluations/index_en.cfm http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_03_23_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24294 People can now access millions of scientific data resources about our planet thanks to the EUROGEOSS project. EUROGEOSS ('European approach to the global earth observation system of systems'), backed under the Environment Theme of the FP7 to the tune of EUR 6.1 million, has developed an innovative way to search thousands of Earth observation catalogues. This has increased the number of datasets and products publicly available for scientific research, from a few hundred in 2011, to more than 28 million in 2012.]]> Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-03-23:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_03_23_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24294