• Autonomous cars : will roads be safer if algorithms replace human drivers?

    Articles, Artificial Intelligence, Transport

    Research on autonomous cars has received a boost from the European Parliament, but the technology still raises many questions. Can it be safe and ethical? Will it totally eliminate the need for human drivers? And, of course: when will this happen?

    on February 20, 2019

  • ESMH Press Review – February 13, 2019

    Media review

    Self-driving vehicles, extinction of megafauna, the positive effect of AI on doctors: check the latest ESMH selection of 18 science and tech news published in the last two weeks all around the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media!

    on February 13, 2019

  • Scott Brennen: "We live in a kind of post-truth age where science facts are doubted"

    Articles, Disinformation

    Scott Brennen from the Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science, and Media investigates how changing media structures and technologies are shaping the scientific information and scientific misinformation.

    on February 06, 2019

  • ESMH workshop : Tackling mis / disinformation in Science, 6 Feb. 2019

    Past Events

    How to tackle disinformation in science? How scientists and journalists could work better together in order to prevent misinformation? The knowledge lab of the ESMH on 6th February will take a closer look at some initiatives.

    on January 30, 2019

  • ESMH Press Review – January 23, 2019

    Media review

    Smart homes, planetary health diet, fake users in internet : check the latest ESMH selection of 20 science and tech news published in the last two weeks all around the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media.

    on January 23, 2019

  • EU Project : VORTEX

    EU projects
    VORTEX : In the Horizon 2020 project VORTEX, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sear Research investigates the degradation of (micro)plastics in marine environments, from estuaries and coastal areas to offshore seas and the deep ocean. NIOZ (the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) biogeochemist...
    on January 16, 2019

  • EU Project : TOPIOS

    EU projects
    TOPIOS : In the EU-funded TOPIOS project, which started in April 2017, scientists are trying to solve the so-called ‘missing plastic problem’. “This means that as much as 99 % of ocean plastic is missing: we don’t know exactly where it is or what damage it is doing. TOPIOS aims to fill in the gaps in...
    on January 16, 2019

  • EU Project : CACH

    EU projects
    CACH : Ice-core records show that glacials had lower atmospheric pCO2 and cooler temperatures than today and that the last deglaciation was punctuated by large, abrupt millennial-scale climate events. Explaining the mechanism controlling these oscillations remains an outstanding puzzle. The ocean is...
    on January 16, 2019

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