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UniSAFE is a three-year project funded by the European Commission aiming to eradicate gender-based violence in academia and research. Launched in 2021, the project provides up-to-date, reliable data on gender-based violence, including newly emerging forms of violence, in universities and research performing organisations. Read more [...]
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Europe's largest interdisciplinary science conference presented in a new, hybrid form for 2022 Science is spectacular. Science inspires, connects and challenges society. In a world that is in constant flux, sciences changes accordingly. What does that mean for your role as a scientist? How can you contribute to this change? Are you curious to see what science has to offer society? Do you want to help solving the challenges faced today? Then please join us at Europe’s biggest interdisciplinary science conference. Read more [...]
Time to take researchers’ emotions seriously!
ndividual, but also for the progress of science, because how scientists feel affects the research they do. Researching without passion is routinely assumed to infringe on its quality and novelty. As external funding directs ever more research, it is time for funders to take scientists’ emotions seriously. Read more [...]
Mac in keyboard without Wireless HD
Apple is best known for its series of personal computers, phones (iPhone) and various innovative products. It first introduced the Macintosh (Mac) computer back in 1984, which was widely sold as a personal computer. One thing that makes a Mac different from other desktop computers is that it comes with a display unit, which makes it an all-in-one PC. It was the most successful all-in-one desktop computer of that time. Since then Apple is working on various technologies to come up with new innovative products like the Magic keyboard. Read more [...]
Cybersecurity: an EU health challenge in the post-Covid era
In September 2020, during the pandemic, the German press reported the first death due to a cyber attack on the Hospital of Düsseldorf University, which caused great disturbance such as postponement of surgeries, and scheduled medical examinations or chemotherapies. Cybercriminals by using malicious software, so called ransomware, invaded 30 servers of the hospital, crashed the system and forced the staff to turn away patients treated in emergency. A female patient was sent to Wuppertal 35 km away and eventually died due to treatment delay. Nearly a year earlier, Campbell County Health, a medical group in Wyoming USA, with 20 clinics across the state, had also been target for cybercriminals. Read more [...]
5 Ways We Can Expect Climate Change to Affect Housing
Although humanity as a whole is more aware than ever of the negative effects of climate change, we’re edging ever closer to the tipping point. The damage from irreversible climate change is expected to impact virtually every industry on Earth, including Read more [...]
The Evolution of Radio Receivers
Radio receiver is one such gadget that people have been using for many generations. After the invention of radio communication by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895, the first radio receiver was also invented by Marconi. A radio receiver is an electronic device that can only receive radio signals and can convert the radio signals to audio and sound. A radio receiver can receive radio signals of various frequencies by tuning to a particular frequency. Read more [...]
Technology in Healthcare Helping to Alleviate Burnout
Image Source: Owen Beard on Unsplash Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, the global health system was burdened with an ongoing and worsening shortage of healthcare providers. With the beginning of the pandemic, the challenges facing Read more [...]
Innovations in Logistic Technologies Helping Stabilize Supply Chains
Supply chains have been a big topic in the news lately. That’s because these integral elements of global trade are how we transport our goods. When they’re disrupted, the results are bad for businesses and consumers alike. Fortunately, however, innovations in logistics tech are helping to stabilize supply chains worldwide. Read more [...]
25 YEARs EUROSCIENCE: INTERVIEW OF Teresa Fernandez Zafra, Euroscience Governing Board Member
For the 25 years of EuroScience, we will publish each month a short interview with some persons who witnessed and participated in the evolution of the association. This month, Teresa Fernandez Zafra, EuroScience governing board member will give some insights into EuroScience from his point of view. Read more [...]
The science and ethics of turning octopuses into ‘lab rats’
A squid whisperer might be about to help revolutionise experimental biology. Bret Grasse is one of the most renowned keepers and breeders of cephalopods, a group of animals that includes squid, cuttlefish and octopus, and his expert knowledge of these Read more [...]
UK recorded more than 10,000 extra non-covid deaths since July: how do we know vaccines are not to blame?
Across the UK, more people than usual were dying from non-Covid causes last year—and no one knows why. A wave of unexplained extra deaths from causes other than Covid-19 hit the UK, the first nation to start mass vaccination with novel vaccines. Since Read more [...]
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