Research*EU Magazine | Number 56 (October 2016)

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Series Details Number 56
Publication Date October 2016
ISSN 1977-4028
EC ZZ-AC-16-008-EN-N
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What can we learn from insects?

Summary:

Over the past years, scientist across the globe have been studying insects to test new treatments for humans, investigate the nature of ageing, draw inspiration for cooperation mechanisms in robots, study the effects of pollution and solve many other scientific challenges. EU funding — mostly provided in the form of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions — has helped and continues to help these scientists in their quest for answers.

This issue of the Research*EU magazine is an ode to the entomologists’ contribution to scientific advances in Europe. The special feature section covers eight recently-completed or close-to-completed projects, with topics as fascinating as insect response to climate change, maggot-inspired robotics, beetle-inspired farming, fungus that can control ant behaviour, or genetic alterations that allow insects to walk on water.

This special feature is followed by the usual eight sections providing insights into biology and medicine, social sciences and humanities, energy and transport, environment, IT and telecommunications, industrial technologies, food and agriculture, and physics and mathematics, along with a list of upcoming events hosted by or involving EU-funded research projects.

Contents:

Special Feature: What can we learn from insects?

Industrial Technologies

  • Towards pioneering binaural cochlear implants
  • Citizenship and voting rights in post-Yugoslav countries
  • The use of houses in Britain during the Neolithic period
  • Special steels and composite materials for lighter, more eco-friendly merchant ships
  • Novel green treatment for functional surfaces
  • Graphene's cousin silicene to revolutionise nanoelectronics
  • In the quest for a unified theory
  • Quantum systems out of equilibrium
  • Single-molecule electronic devices come a step closer
  • Light control at the micro scale

Health

  • Novel scaffolds for implants
  • Shedding new light on the workings of motor proteins
  • Genetic markers in food and feed

Energy

  • Radioactive waste fuels next-generation reactors

Climate Change and Environment

  • Ice shelf collapse study leads to improved models
  • Town birds cleverer than their country cousins
  • Novel OS for smart cities turns energy consumers into ‘prosumers’
  • Two fish pathogens identified and sequenced

Digital Economy

  • Lifelike vision for computers
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