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A new doctoral network is training the scientists who will build the world’s most precise clocks — and, with them, a piece of Europe’s technological sovereignty By the time you finish reading this sentence, the most accurate optical clocks built in European laboratories will have ticked off about ten seconds — and lost less than […]

Climate change is no longer a future scenario for Europe’s regions; it is a budget line. Floods that once arrived a generation apart now return within a decade. Heatwaves reshape harvests, working hours and public-health systems. Insurance premiums climb, and across much of the continent the gap between what is insured and what is actually

A nine-partner European consortium, coordinated by the University of Barcelona and backed with €3 million from the European Innovation Council, is betting that ultrasound can do what conventional bioprinters cannot: rapidly assemble realistic, centimetre-scale heart tissue in the laboratory. Project Update · April 2026 Cardiovascular disease still kills more people than anything else on the

A new ERC-funded project based in Spain is taking on one of the deepest open questions in modern exoplanet science: are sub-Neptunes balls of gas, worlds of water, or both? For decades, astronomers searched the cosmos for planets like our own. What they found instead, again and again, was something stranger: worlds slightly larger than

Digital Visibility as a Scientific Resource In recent years, scientific communication has undergone a significant transformation. Whereas traditionally the dissemination of scientific results was carried out mainly through academic journals, conferences, and specialised networks, today social media plays an increasingly central role in this process. They not only accelerate the exchange of information, but also

Across Europe’s seas, a persistent contradiction remains. On paper, vast marine areas are designated as protected. In practice, many of these zones remain vulnerable, under-managed, and weakly enforced. This gap between policy and implementation has given rise to the term “paper parks.” The EU-funded SOS2030 project addresses this challenge directly, combining scientific analysis with practical

Across Europe, the fashion industry faces a growing paradox. While clothing production has never been more dynamic or accessible, the environmental cost of textile waste continues to rise at an alarming pace. Mountains of discarded garments, complex material blends, and insufficient recycling systems highlight the urgent need for a new model—one that is circular, traceable,

Across Europe, cities are increasingly on the front line of climate change. Rising temperatures, intensifying heatwaves, and persistent air pollution are no longer abstract projections—they are everyday realities affecting millions of citizens. Against this backdrop, the Horizon Europe project UrbanAIR is working to transform how cities understand and respond to these challenges. With a budget

In the vast silence of space, even the faintest traces of light may hold answers to one of humanity’s most profound questions: are we alone in the universe? The EU-funded research project XSCOOPED—short for EXoplanet SpectrosCopy using 0-nOise Photon Energy Resolving Detectors—is built on the premise that these nearly imperceptible signals from distant planets may

Rethinking Cancer Detection and Treatment Despite decades of progress, cancer detection and treatment remain among the most complex challenges in modern medicine. Certain forms—most notably pancreatic cancer—continue to evade early diagnosis and effective intervention, contributing to persistently low survival rates. Against this backdrop, the European research project Zee-Zoom-Zap represents an ambitious effort to transform how