sustainable hemp

Building with sustainable hemp for a resilient future

Steve Allin, Founder of the International Hemp Building Association (IHBA), speaks to The Innovation Platform about the challenges of establishing a sustainable hemp building...
earth observation

InCubed: new funding for British earth observation technology

A new programme, worth over £800,000, has been made available to the UK space sector to help British earth observation businesses compete in the...
Finnish bioscience

Funding the future of Finnish bioscience

Professor Ursula Schwab, Chair of the Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment at the Academy of Finland, speaks to The Innovation Platform...
New Physics

CERN, LHCb, Syracuse University and the search for New Physics

Physicists from Syracuse University, working at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), discuss their involvement in the LHCb experiment and the search for evidence...
hybrid nanocapsules

How hybrid nanocapsules can reduce carbon emissions

The 9,000th publication to come from the Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, has been published, describing how hybrid nanocapsules from renewable materials...
gravitational wave astronomy

Testing the Equivalence Principle with gravitational wave astronomy

Professor Philippe Jetzer, who leads the Gravitation and Astrophysics Group at the University of Zurich (UZH), discusses gravitational waves and ways to test General...
air traffic management

The impact of COVID-19 on air traffic management

Dr Luis Barbero, President and Chief Executive Officer of GATCO, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the aviation and air traffic management industry. The increasing...
Ceramic dental implants

Ceramic dental implants: innovation in dentistry

Modern ceramic dental implants, when correctly positioned and handled, represent a highly innovative addition to the treatment spectrum in dental implantology. In the past, ceramic...
Standard model

Understanding experiments with the Standard Model of particle physics

At OPRA, we believe that the research we support can play a major role in making the Standard Model a better theory by paying...
Organic farming

Organic farming opportunities in Europe

IFOAM EU’s Policy Manager, Eric Gall, spoke to The Innovation Platform about the benefits of organic farming, the European Commission’s Farm to Fork strategy...