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How Europe can achieve digital sovereignty
CEO of EIT Digital, Willem Jonker, spoke to Innovation News Network about a recent policy perspective report which has outlined how Europe can achieve...
Mass of plastics in the Atlantic Ocean weighs around 21 million tonnes
The mass of plastics in the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 21 million tonnes, according to research conducted by the National Oceanography Centre.
This figure is...
Land-based aquaculture’s relationship with nutrition security
As climate change threatens global food supplies, innovators look to land-based aquaculture as a solution to increasing nutrition security.
As sea temperatures peak and our...
Drone usage in flood science and beyond
Drone usage has increased greatly in many sectors over the last ten years. Dr Guy Schumann, CEO of RSS-Hydro, analyses the adoption of drone...
New process using bacteria and algae to help the UK military reduce waste
Biological engineers led by the University of Sheffield’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, are developing a new process to help the UK military...
The age of digitised biology
Digitised biology, an integrated Pre-Pilot Plant facility, and a Biofoundry are some of the key drivers in The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability’s...
The volume of glacial lake has increased by 50% since 1990
Researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data have conducted the largest-ever study of glacial lakes. The team found that the global volume of...
UK announces new plan to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced today on World Electric Vehicle Day (9 September 2020) the UK Government’s ambitious plan to accelerate the adoption...
New AI-based system increases the accuracy of epilepsy diagnoses
A spinout company from the University of Birmingham, named Neuronostics, has received funding to develop an AI-based system which increases the accuracy of epilepsy...
ERC 2020: Behind the scenes of the Mars rover competition
A remote Mars rover competition, named the ERC Space and Robotics Event, will begin on 11 September 2020, using a robot management platform to navigate...