Research*EU Magazine | Number 104 (July 2021)

Special Feature: Another Small Step: A New Age of Solar System Exploration

Summary:

This year’s dedicated space issue features seven EU-funded projects that are positively contributing to Europe’s space ambitions and celebrates both astronauts in space and astronomers safe in their labs on Earth, who are required in equal measure to help explore the solar system and unearth its mysteries.  Meanwhile, Life After meets again the HOME_EU project which undertook detailed and hard-hitting research that shows ‘Housing First’ is indeed a very viable policy solution to help move people out of homelessness. Research*EU catches up with them to see how they’ve advanced their work since the project’s official end.  Project of the Month, highlights a major study which the ERC-supported ICEMASS project contributed to that gives some stark warnings on the impact of global glacier retreat in the face of climate change. Finally, EU Agenda exceptionally covers two months instead of one, specifically September and October 2021.

Contents:

• • Health
    • Augmented reality advances surgical procedures
    • A game-changing treatment for chronic inflammatory disorders
    • Gut microbiota as a predictor of systemic infection
  • Society
    • How a tiny wood-loving worm changed the course of world history
    • 17th century 'tweets' chart the Middle Eastern Christian diaspora
    • How dung played a supporting role in ancient homes
  • Life After
    • Catching up with HOME_EU: Championing 'Housing First' as a solution to homelessness and other social intervention challenges
  • Transport and Mobility
    • Paving the way to trustworthy and reliable automated vehicles
    • EU research cuts the ice to increase Arctic sea safety
    • Safest-ever child restraint seat created with breakthrough technology used for armoured vehicles
  • Climate Change and Environment
    • Tracking environmental change with the help of Cold War spy imagery
    • New metric for identifying extreme events in lakes
  • Special Feature
    • Another small step: A new age of solar system exploration
  • Project of the month
    • Insights from the most comprehensive study on the world's glacier retreat
  • Food and Natural Resources
    • Robotics to accurately monitor grape production in European vineyards
    • Reducing mycotoxin contamination in food and feed
  • Industrial Technologies
    • Grass paper - a new contender in paper packaging
    • Mass transfer via elastomeric stamps achieves industrial-scale fabrication of 3D integrated microelectronics
    • Natural extracts improve properties of industrial bioplastics
  • Digital Economy
    • Affordable and reliable internet access available to remote areas
    • New methods secure and verify IoT for for European industry
    • Placing ethics at the heart of emerging technologies
  • Space
    • The Milky Way is draped in the hearts of extinct galaxies
    • New analytical model could shed more light on star and dark matter distribution in galaxies
  • Fundamental Research
    • Synthetic cell models help researchers study the origins of life
    • Research uncovers mechanisms that steer fascinating phase transitions from the insular to the metal
  • Agenda
    • September/October 2021

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