Research*EU Magazine | Number 58 (December 2016/January 2017)

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Series Details Number 58
Publication Date December 2016 - January 2017
ISSN 1977-4028
EC ZZ-AC-16-010-EN-N
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Drilling in the thick ice: lessons from the past

Summary:

The EU is no stranger to ice core science. The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), which was partly supported by the European Commission, notably helped to obtain full documentation of the climatic and atmospheric record archived in Antarctic ice and compared it with that of Greenland — thereby revealing precious information about natural climate variability and mechanisms of rapid climatic changes during the last ice age. These efforts have been pursued under FP7 and now under Horizon 2020, with a total of 21 projects funded under the two framework programmes. As winter comes and some of these projects get very close to their end, the CORDIS editorial team decided it was time to put the spotlight on seven of them. From traces of cosmic dust to forest fires, abrupt climate changes and oceanic carbon storage, these projects provide a great insight into ice core science’s added value for the scientific community.

Contents:

Special feature:Drilling in the thick ice: lessons from the past

Health

  • Microbial dynamics of antibiotic resistance
  • Bacteria shape neonatal immune system
  • Exploiting HIV’s weaknesses to develop effective vaccines
  • Applying shop floor knowledge to achieve better run factories
  • Novel regeneration therapy promises to significantly improve bone repair

Energy

  • Graphitic carbon and renewable hydrogen production from food waste
  • Banking on innovative IT tools to help data centres save energy
  • Advanced technologies and novel solutions for a competitive and sustainable European biogas sector
  • A sweet solution to the thermal energy storage problem

Transport and Mobility

  • Futuristic freight

Industrial Technologies

  • Groundbreaking 3D printing technology for metals
  • New technology for oil-free compressed air
  • EU researchers offer sustainable solutions for European manufacturing

Food and Natural Resources

  • Making rice safe from arsenic
  • Fresh air for cheese
  • New sensory tool gives industry food for thought
  • Chicken korma curry helps researchers explore genetic variants in food choices

Fundamental Research

  • New materials from atomic physics simulations
  • New tools to solve partial differential equations
  • Shedding light on the secrets of nano-sized processors
  • Spin nano-systems result in new type of quantum bits

Digital Economy

  • Connecting the jungle and other remote parts of the world
  • Why human brains hold the key to smarter artificial intelligence
  • Wearable robots usher in next generation of mobility therapies

Climate Change and Environment

  • Magnetic attraction helps explain the motion under the ocean
  • Efficient paper recycling, from first page to last
  • First evidence that deep-sea animals are ingesting microplastics
  • EU researchers show that mole rat society is based on age, not on caste

Society

  • One small step for robots, one giant leap for robot-kind?
  • New study encourages better cooperation amongst Israeli teenagers
  • Recommendations for secure and sustainable European cultural landscapes
  • Understanding how finance can better serve the economy, society and the environment
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  • https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/400797-drilling-in-thick-ice-lessons-from-the-past
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