Focus

Dutch technology to protect internet devices from hacking

How can we protect electronic devices from hacking?

19 October 2016

World News

Countries lose billions by keeping disabled children out of school, report suggests

Children with disabilities are being kept out of the classroom due to a lack of funds to adequately support their needs, according to research conducted by rights…

17 October 2016

Russia

Russia deals another blow to nuclear cooperation with US

Russia has further reduced its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy by suspending a research agreement and ending one on uranium conversion.

6 October 2016

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Sustainability and a sea of change for the ship industry

New international standards require ocean vessels to reduce air pollution. How does altering power affect the safety of a ship?

26 September 2016

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Takeaway: ship safety

Ships burn fuel, polluting the atmosphere New regulations demand to cut the emissions The easiest way would be to reduce engine power But underpowered ships can be unsafe in storm They’re also slower,

26 September 2016

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An old technology revisited to save lives at sea

Monitoring the Mediterranean to save the lives of drifting refugees is currently a hit-and-miss affair, needing an expensive armada of vessels to ensure lives are saved. But there are never enough shi

19 September 2016

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Takeaway: Up in the air

This small zeppelin has been designed to save lives.

19 September 2016

Russia

Russian arctic meteorologists besieged by polar bears

Five meteorologists working on Russia’s Izvesti Tsik Islands are trapped in their base, and have been for almost two weeks, because they are besieged by polar…

14 September 2016

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Could optical fibre sensors save lives?

When driving on a road embankment, we hope that it won’t collapse under the wheels of our vehicle, but how certain can we really be?

12 September 2016

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Takeaway: groundbreaking sensors

Optical fibre can do more than high-speed internet: it can save lives on the road.

12 September 2016

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Scientists fear deep-sea mining

Scientists fear that even before one of the last frontiers of exploration, the ocean deep, has been properly studied it will already have been exploited by commercial deep-sea mining looking for rare

5 September 2016

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Takeaway: sea mining

Deep ocean floor has never been mined for resources That is about to change Mining companies may launch deep-sea mining by 2018 Environmental consequences remain unknown Researchers are rushing to fil

5 September 2016

USA

The Magic of Mushrooms

Fungi specialists discover incredible and groundbreaking innovations across several domains

27 August 2016

Sci-Tech

Italian team brings household robot a step closer

Italy’s IIT, (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), in Genoa has a new humanoid member of staff.

25 August 2016

United Kingdom

World's largest aircraft takes off

It is thought to be the world’s largest aircraft.

18 August 2016

World News

Vote: Who is the EU's most innovative technology enterprise?

The search is on to find which teams within the European Union are producing the most groundbreaking research project or product.

4 August 2016

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A fresh splash for Aquaculture

In this edition of Futuris, Julián López Gómez sails to a fish farm in the west of Scotland, where around 1,000 tons of salmon are bred every year.

1 August 2016

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Takeaway: a fresh splash for aquaculture

What are these delicious scallops doing here?

1 August 2016

Europe

Enforcing EU laws on sexual harassment

Euronews, Sophie Claudet: In your study, published in 2014, we read that one in two women in the EU have been sexually harassed; and that Sweden and Denmark top the list with 80 and 81 percent of wome

29 July 2016

Europe

Animals, Abattoirs and Antibiotic resistance

Europeans do like their steak… but the most consumed meat in Europe is by far pork. Find out why the process behind your bacon is one of the driving forces behind a global health threat.

22 July 2016