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Barcelona team develops AI that detects ageing in blood stem cells

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Space

Cataract surgery on Mars? Scientists test eye implants in space

The research team sent 135 unpackaged artificial lenses to the International Space Station, where they spent around six months exposed to conditions in low-Earth orbit before returning to Earth for analysis.

Health news

The young brain’s hidden weakness: When plasticity goes wrong

The very capacity that makes younger brains adaptable may also make them more likely to rewire an injury into a persistent pathological network, a new study found.

Culture news

Sweet-stealing capitalists and the definition of kissing: The 2026 Ig Nobel award winners

The annual awards highlight strange, funny and thought-provoking research. This year's ceremony took place in Europe, with “fungi” as the theme of the 36th edition.

Earth News

‘Bioloon’: UK scientists invent revolutionary biodegradable balloon

Discarded balloons “leak toxic chemicals into the environment" and can easily be swallowed by animals.

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Health news

Scientists find possible new route to more powerful mRNA drugs

The next generation of mRNA medicines – including vaccines fighting against infectious disease, cancer and autoimmune conditions – may depend on a surprisingly small change: swapping one chemical modification for another.

Space

The 'geoid': Why NASA’s gravity model makes Earth look like a potato

Mapping Earth’s gravity, NASA has released a visualisation of the geoid — the apparent real shape of our planet given the global ocean surface if it were exclusively under the influence of gravity and Earth’s rotation.

Culture news

Lake Constance: Wooden shipwreck surprises underwater archaeologists

In an interview with Euronews, Prof Tobias Pflederer of the Bavarian Society for Underwater Archaeology (BGfU) discusses the discovery of wooden parts of a shipwreck in Lake Constance and what makes the find so special.

Europe News

Greenland institute halts new collaborations with the US

The Trump administration has cut billions of dollars in public research funding and fired government scientists.

Culture news

Spectacular find: 1,000-year-old Viking textile factory unearthed

An excavation near Aarhus in Denmark may fundamentally alter how we see the Viking Age: 82 pit houses identified as specialised textile workshops have been uncovered.

Climate

Mysterious Atlantic 'Cold Blob': the one place Earth keeps cooling

Climate puzzle: a new study probes the only place on Earth that has cooled in recent years, linking the 'Cold Blob' mainly to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AMOC.

Economy

Anthropic pledges more than €170 million to study AI's impact on jobs

Anthropic unveiled a research fund and a policy roadmap for governments to follow if AI pushes unemployment sharply higher, with the CEO suggesting taxes on AI firms could one day fund a universal basic income.

Tech News

Spain unveils €9.8 million quantum supercomputer

This supercomputer, located at Barcelona's BSC-CNS centre, can combine classical computing with both digital and analogue quantum computing.

Nutrition

Free school meals linked to fewer suspensions, study finds

Scientists say universal free school meals can reduce out‐of‐school suspensions in both elementary and secondary schools. Which European countries offer free school meals?

Europe News

Germany arrests married couple on China spying charges

Earlier this week, German Green MP Konstantin von Notz, deputy chief of the intelligence oversight committee, warned of a growing threat from China.

Culture news

Pompeii: A doctor identified thanks to his instruments

Interdisciplinary work made it possible to identify the body of a doctor among the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The plaster cast held a case with the instruments used by doctors at the time

Made in Europe

Deep inside the heart: an EU medical breakthrough against arrhythmia

Clinical studies are underway to test an innovative catheter that’s able to accurately and safely heal unhealthy heart tissue with single, shorter energy pulses. A technological breakthrough designed, manufactured and tested in the European Union.