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Air Pollution in Europe
Gautham Gnanajothi, Senior Industry Analyst & Team Leader – Energy & Environment at Frost & Sullivan highlights the impact of air pollution throughout Europe…
Looking at air pollution in Europe from a surface level, it gives us an impression that air quality standards have been significantly improving over the past decades...
Chancellor announces billions in cuts
Chancellor George Osborne has revealed £4.5bn of measures he plans to enact to bring down national debt...
A new raft of austerity measures have been released by the Chancellor George Osborne today. It is hoped these cuts will enable the government to reduce national debt, but the news will undoubtedly...
The “place” in economic Development
In view of the significant transformation towards a knowledge-based economy which is taking place, as investment and people are now more mobile than ever before, so does the consideration of the quality of a place also become much more important.
The most important component of this transformation is a much...
Automotive Software Engineering
The automotive industry is one of Europe’s driving economic forces. A huge variety of cars from premium cars, to e-mobile and low-cost cars, are developed and sold. Unseen, deep down into numerous electronic control units (ECU) engine control functions, comfort functions, driving assistance functions, as well as security functions,...
The role of excellent science in innovation
Stephan Kuster, Head of Policy Affairs at Science Europe outlines the role scientific excellence plays in encouraging innovation throughout Europe
Science is surrounded by growing expectations linked to the innovation potential of scientific discoveries and new technologies. In Europe, stimulating innovation is widely regarded as the road to a sustainable...
Climate change and the impacts on forest trees
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) identifies climate change as one of the most serious global challenges to ecosystems and societies. A crucial feature is the rise in mean ambient temperature. Models predict that in the next few decades temperatures could increase by 2-4ºC, exceeding what most forest...
Physiology of animal growth, development and reproduction
A significant part of fundamental research in the Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition Polish Academy of Sciences in Jablonna
Central regulatory mechanisms
A number of experimental techniques have been developed in the Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition in Jablonna (Poland) that make it possible to conduct experiments in...
Air Pollution in Europe – An Overview
Gautham Gnanajothi, Senior Industry Analyst & Team Leader – Energy & Environment at Frost & Sullivan highlights the impact of air pollution throughout Europe
Looking at air pollution in Europe from a surface level, it gives us an impression that air quality standards have been significantly improving over the past decades...
The danger of the status quo
Why we need new interventions to battle mosquito-borne diseases
Mosquitoes are the most dangerous creature in the world. They kill one person every 12 seconds and infect hundreds of millions of people each year with serious diseases. Aedes aegypti is a particularly harmful species because it mainly bites people and...
Nutrition and prostate cancer
Prostate cancer will become an increasing burden on society
Prostate cancer is now the most common malignancy in Western men, accounting for 30% of newly diagnosed cancers, and it is the second leading cause of male cancer-related death. The burden of human suffering and the cost to society are expected...
Nanoimaging to cure Alzheimer’s disease
Background of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most devastating neurodegenerative disorders affecting more than 25 million people worldwide which is the fifth leading cause of death for those aged 65 years and above. The disease typically starts with a difficulty to remember new information and as...
ANR, an actor in building the European Research Area
The French National Research Agency (ANR) outlines how they are committed to increasing the quality of science funding through European collaboration
In both basic and applied research fields, funding is becoming increasingly more competitive. As a project-based funding body, ANR – the French National Research Agency – is committed to...
The role of excellent science in an ERA of innovation
Stephan Kuster, Head of Policy Affairs at Science Europe outlines the role scientific excellence plays in encouraging innovation throughout Europe
Science is surrounded by growing expectations linked to the innovation potential of scientific discoveries and new technologies. In Europe, stimulating innovation is widely regarded as the road to a sustainable...
Tackling antibiotic resistance
Andrew Miller MP, Chair of the Science and Technology Committee sheds light on why the next government must make tackling antibiotic resistance a public health priority
Medicine could be ‘cast back into the dark ages’ by growing antibiotic resistance, David Cameron grimly warned last year. To see off the ‘superbugs’...
Clegg makes public sector pay pledge
Under new plans from the Liberal Democrats millions of public sector workers would see better wages...
Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg said public sector workers have “made enough sacrifices” and that it is time to end “the era of pay restraint”.
Pay, he said, should increase in real terms...
Tories pledge paid volunteering leave
David Cameron has promised to deliver a programme that would enable some UK employees to undertake paid volunteering leave
If the Conservative government stays in power they would offer up to 15 million workers three days paid leave a year to undertake voluntary work. According to the Tories volunteering has...
Horizon 2020 addresses societal challenges
Sarah Collen-Godman, Senior Policy Manager – NHS European Office at the NHS Confederation discusses how the Horizon 2020 programme will help to address major societal challenges…
Horizon 2020, Europe’s research and innovation programme, was launched at the beginning of 2014 and will run until 2020. It is the EU’s overarching, multi-disciplinary...
Saint-Gobain Puts Comfort First
We spend roughly 90% of our time indoors or in vehicles, so it’s fair to say that the buildings we live, work and play in everyday can have a significant impact on our comfort, health and wellbeing. Stacey Temprell, Residential Sector Director at Saint-Gobain, discusses how Saint-Gobain is improving...
Skin cancer: deadly but preventable
Jon Pleat MA DPhil FRCS(Plast), Plastic Surgeon and Scientific Advisor at SCaRF details the risks of skin cancer and how it can be prevented…
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer globally. There are more than 80,000 deaths a year from its different forms. Within the UK, the incidence...
Electric cars could cut oil imports
A new study has revealed that switching to electric cars could cut the amount of oil the UK needs to import by 40 per cent by 2030...
A new study undertaken by Cambridge Econometrics revealed that on average a driver could save £1,000 per year on fuel bills by switching...
