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Despite the widely recognised advantages of an active lifestyle, including lowering the risk of chronic diseases and preventing premature death, Europeans don’t exercise enough. The data from the OECD's report "Step Up! Tackling the Burden ...
Neurotechnologies are tools for recording and interpreting brain activity. They aim at rehabilitating, restoring or even modifying brain functions. Neuro-enhancement is the field of improving brain capacity. These methods raise ethical issues. So, does the sector need EU regulation? A new concept of "neurorights" is emerging. They could be defined as ethical and legal principles ...
Currently, in response to last year’s Council invitation, the Commission is developing a set of key policy tools to assist Member States in navigating the impacts of an ageing population on Europe’s competitiveness and its society. These plans took the stage in a recent plenary debate in the European Parliament on healthy lifestyles and active ...
After food, housing and transport, textiles come in fourth place for environmental impact at EU level. Yet textiles are also essential to our daily lives, from clothing and furniture to protective equipment and even buildings and vehicles. How can we reduce this impact and make the textile industry more sustainable and circular? Part of the ...
The future of Horizon Europe for research and innovation, generative AI in research, AI as the new goldmine for Europe: check out the ESMH selection of 24 science and tech news items published recently on the web.
Sylvia Kritzinger is Professor for Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Vienna (Austria). Her research focuses on citizens’ political attitudes and voting behaviour, democratic representation, and political participation, voting at 16. She participated in this year’s Annual Lecture hosted by the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) ...
The prevalence of this atypical lung infection agent is widely underestimated - people are often not even aware that they have it - and many antibiotics cannot effectively treat it; Mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreaks occur every few years. This winter, countries like China, Denmark, France and the Netherlands reported an increase in cases, especially in children. ...
Open Science is the idea of disseminating knowledge as soon as it becomes available, using digital tools. It is a development that could greatly improve the quality of research and as such, it is a priority for the EU. But Open Science doesn’t come without risks. In order to safeguard academic freedom and protect researchers ...
Agricultural economist Hermann Lotze-Campen leads climate resilience research at the world-famous Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and he’s also a professor of sustainable land use and climate change at Humboldt University in Berlin. In this interview, he explains more about the relationships between land use, agriculture, climate and our food – and gives us a ...
