Research*EU Magazine | Number 96 (October 2020)

Special Feature: Soil and Sustainability: Raising the Game for European Agriculture

Summary:

This month's special feature looks at the more sustainable, environmentally conscious agricultural methods being pioneered by innovative researchers across Europe.  Also included are a couple of projects working to decontaminate and help breathe new life into spoiled soil.  The Project of the Month showcases a new and very large industry and EU-funded consortium, the CARE project, which will be working to identify and develop new and effective therapies to successfully treat COVID-19.  Meanwhile, Life After catches up with a cutting-edge Spanish SME and the successful launch of its nature-based weight management solution in markets spanning from the US, to Europe, to Asia.  Finally, EU Agenda details some of the important events taking place in November.

Contents:

• • Health
    • An innovative analyser speeds up drug manufacturing
    • Adaption to a new territory:  the role of pathogens and the immune system
    • Improving our understanding of the body's immune response
  • Project of the Month
    • Europe's largest initiative officially launched to accelerate treatments for COVID-19
  • Society
    • Empowering regulators to combat fiscal fraud
    • Ancient Mycenaeans give up their secrets to those we can hear them
  • Transport and Mobility
    • On your bike - zip-on tyre surfaces provide simple, safe cycling all year round
    • System uses AI and industrial loT to usher in new era of predictive maintenance in rail
    • Innovative, safe and sustainable personal transport promotes active ageing
  • Climate Change and Environment
    • Satellites provide detailed picture of aquatic ecosystems'status
    • Volcanic ash study could strengthen climate modelling
    • Impact of soil moisture on climate change projections
  • Special Feature
    • Soil and sustainability:  Raising the game for European agriculture
  • Food and Natural Resources
    • Wood provides environmentally friendly chemical feedstocks
    • Sustainably sourced biodegradable growing media for hydroponic cultivation of greenhouse crops
    • Wearable livestock device reduces methane emissions
  • Life After...
    • Catching up with INNOPREFAT:  An innovative Spanish SME takes its weight management solution to the world
  • Industrial Technologies
    • While-you-wait spectacles around the corner thanks to nanoscale printing
    • Numerical tools make the design of novel fuel-injection equipment more cost-effective
  • Digital Economy
    • Blockchain technology makes secure, low-cost and simple payments a reality for all
    • Using data to understand - and predict - fashion trends
    • Dynamic glare control turns windows into transparent video screens
  • Space
    • New tests offer 'smoking gun' signatures for dark matter and modified gravity
    • Innovative model helps unlock secrets of faraway galaxies
  • Fundamental Research
    • Working to make the quantum phase device a reality
    • Catching a cosmic Houdini in the act will shed new light on the enigmatic neutrino
  • Agenda
    • November 2020

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