Amsterdam’s Circular Strategy

Innovating for the future: Amsterdam’s Circular Strategy

Officials in Amsterdam have approved the new Amsterdam Circular Strategy 2020-2025 in order to significantly reduce the use of new materials. The key aim of...
Space objects

23,000 space objects and counting

The Innovation Platform speaks to ESA Director of Operations Rolf Densing about deorbiting space debris to avoid overcrowding in space. In almost 60 years of...
MXene film

MXene film offers 99% shielding efficiency for electromagnetic interference

Scientists have produced a technology that can fabricate an ultrathin type of MXene film for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. A team of researchers, led by...
off-grid

Going off-grid to end the climate emergency

As the climate emergency gets increasingly worse, more people are turning to an ‘off-grid’ lifestyle. Nick Rosen speaks to The Innovation Platform about life...
Jets of charged particles

Scientists find proof that galaxy merger creates jets of charged particles

A team of astrophysicists have reported the first definitive evidence of merging galaxies producing jets of charged particles, which can travel at nearly the...
COVID-19 task force

Learn about CERN’s newly launched COVID-19 task force

The European nuclear research organisation, CERN, has established a COVID-19 task force to help reduce the impact of the pandemic – could this task...
bioengineered lung tissue

What are the best methods for growing bioengineered lung tissue?

Scientists from Yale University have studied the most common methods of growing bioengineered lung tissue in order to determine which method produces the best...
road infrastructure

Investing in safer road infrastructure

Road accidents cost Europe €280bn annually – the European road assessment programme is working towards a Europe free of High Risk Roads. Following the success...
Plastic

Behind the Circular Plastics Alliance

The European Union’s Strategy for plastics tackles the way plastics are currently produced, used and discarded in order to make plastics circular. The Commission has...
AI in healthcare

The integration of AI into healthcare

The Innovation Platform speaks to ABHI Communications Manager Jonathan Evans about the advantages of AI and machine learning in the healthcare sector. Representing the health...