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Scientist takes a sample in a lab

Easier, early cervical cancer testing to save lives

Testing catches early signs of deadly cervical cancer. New technology is making testing more accurate and widely available.

Aphasia is still unexplored territory, but researchers are starting to get a better understanding of how the language system works and provide scientific bases for therapies that can give people a better quality of life. © aga7ta, Shutterstock

Lost for words – the devastation caused by aphasia

Aphasia is a condition that causes the loss of language use and comprehension. The diagnosis affects 300 000 Europeans every year, but precious little is known about it.

A pair of gloved hands working in the garden

Robochop makes garden trimming a snip

Robot lawnmowers converted into hedge trimmers and websites that help you design your flower beds are seeding the future of home gardening.

Scientist takes a sample in a lab

Easier, early cervical cancer testing to save lives

Testing catches early signs of deadly cervical cancer. New technology is making testing more accurate and widely available.

Aphasia is still unexplored territory, but researchers are starting to get a better understanding of how the language system works and provide scientific bases for therapies that can give people a better quality of life. © aga7ta, Shutterstock

Lost for words – the devastation caused by aphasia

Aphasia is a condition that causes the loss of language use and comprehension. The diagnosis affects 300 000 Europeans every year, but precious little is known about it.

A pair of gloved hands working in the garden

Robochop makes garden trimming a snip

Robot lawnmowers converted into hedge trimmers and websites that help you design your flower beds are seeding the future of home gardening.

Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Vice-Chair, GCSA

Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Vice-Chair, GCSA

Q&A: 'People have to be at the centre of the energy transformation'

Nebojsa Nakicenovic, from the EU's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, explains the importance of putting people at the centre of the European Green Deal.

Inside Europe’s energy future

Horizon Europe research and the European Green Deal will put European energy systems on to a clean, secure footing.

A pair of gloved hands working in the garden

Robochop makes garden trimming a snip

Robot lawnmowers converted into hedge trimmers and websites that help you design your flower beds are seeding the future of home gardening.

A sustainable and scalable gas fermentation technology transforms CO2 from industrial emissions into a single cell protein for animal nutrition. © Valdis Skudre, Shutterstock

Making carbon dioxide into protein for innovative animal feed

Using biotechnology to turn carbon dioxide into animal feed shows how academic pursuits hold promise for the real world.

Inside of a tokamak experimental fusion reactor

Dream of unlimited, clean nuclear fusion energy within reach

Nuclear fusion promises a future of clean energy. The epic European-led project to create the power source is taking giant steps forward.

Exterior shot of electric vehicle recharging

Salt and a battery – smashing the limits of power storage

EU researchers are developing the next generation of batteries to power our green energy future.

A renewables facility making hydrogen.

Hydrogen heads home to challenge oil and gas as local energy supply

Regions and islands are lining up to adopt green hydrogen energy systems into the everyday life of their communities. It’s clean, secure, versatile and fits into the local economy.

From the Naked Scientists

Signs that some vapes inflame the brain and other organs.

Does Vaping Inflame the Brain?

There are signs that some vapes inflame the brain and other organs. Perhaps it is not the healthier option we perceive it to be.

From Freshwater Blog

‘Probiotic epidemics’ could help species survive

Beneficial microbes might spread through a population in the same way as infectious diseases.

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'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem

Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working 'sand battery' which can store green power for months at a time.

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