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Listen to a selection of podcasts reporting on the latest science and technology developments, looking into the impact they will have on our lives and capturing their policy implications.
Current state-of-the-art hardware is not optimised for machine learning, and both academic and private sector research is already leading to...
The copper market has recently been showing unusual instability. New EU legislation, though not always directly related, seems to be having...
Electrification is gaining momentum across many sectors, including transport, buildings and industry, driven by the EU's climate ambition an...
Exposure to 'forever chemicals', air pollution, stress and many other factors depends on where a person lives and their lifestyle choices. T...
The European automotive industry is striving to adapt to market changes driven by the dual green and digital transition. Electrification has...
Robot applications, including 'collaborative robots' - cobots - designed to collaborate with humans, are in high demand, with sales and inst...
Generative artificial intelligence applications, such as ChatGPT, are powered through complex learning processes by comprehensive datasets o...
The EU depends on imported fossil fuels (gas, oil and coal) for about 56 % of its energy needs (gross energy consumption), which in 2021 rep...
Droughts and water scarcity are no longer rare or extreme events in Europe. About 20 % of the European territory and 30 % of Europeans are a...
Diets tailored to our individual characteristics could bring about health benefits but require data on our most personal features, such as o...
Recent events have multiplied concerns about potential fragmentation of the internet into a multitude of non-interoperable and disconnected...
Most rare diseases are incurable. Biosensors are a technology that, driven by continuous advances in artificial intelligence, can help disea...
To reach the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°C, the EU must consider every possible techno...
Open strategic autonomy ensures the capacity to cope alone if necessary but without ruling out cooperation whenever possible. It relies on f...
Over the past 3.8 billion years, nature has been engineering itself to survive. It has also developed efficient and sustainable adaptation m...
In this podcast we explore the potential ecological benefits of increasing our capacity to store energy, especially from renewable sources....
As the European Commission prepares to launch a much awaited revised EU pharmaceutical strategy, two recent studies by the European Parliame...
By 2050, an estimated two thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. Could vertical farming help feed this growing urban popul...
As AI spreads into workplaces, workers and employers are increasingly confronted with applications and software that affect labour relations...
Quantum technologies could be a game-changer in the digital transformation of health care. By enabling much faster and more complex data ana...
Antimicrobial-resistant infections are predicted to become the second biggest cause of death worldwide by 2050. Despite increasing investmen...
One language disappears every two weeks, and up to 90 % of existing languages could be gone by the turn of the century. Globalisation, socia...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been under the limelight of so strong political and social debate that its suitability for its main origina...
Demographic, socio-political and economic pressures have made eating meat an unsustainable practice for the long term. However, meat substit...
The rapid growth of genetic databases worldwide, coupled with fast-decreasing costs and increased technological speed, has raised the possib...
Rising sea levels place coastal cities under constant threat. An estimated 250 million people currently live on land below projected annual...
Managing the risks of the Covid-19 pandemic remains a challenge. While EU vaccination rates have reached three quarters of the population, n...
'Innovation' is often used as a shorthand for improved technical, economic and social processes. However, any specific innovation involves t...
Automated decision-making by systems that use machine learning to dynamically improve performance are still seen as lacking the 'human persp...
While killing all microorganisms in our bodies may seem tempting to some germaphobes, scientific evidence indicates that beneficial microorg...
Following the first successful organ transplant in 1954, this procedure has become increasingly prevalent as it has revolutionised the treat...
The European Union has an ambitious climate strategy and is looking for ways to boost technologies that will make it possible. Could hydroge...
The way most food is produced is harming the planet. A profound change is needed, involving all agri-food actors. As consumers, we sit at th...
Nanoparticles lie at the heart of a new method for delivering medicines inside the body – and they were crucial to the success of the Covid-...
Since its early development in the 1960s, Internet infrastructure has become almost as important as electricity and transport infrastructure...
Deepfakes are hyper-realistic videos created through artificial intelligence techniques. They present many possibilities, but also dangers....
Artificial intelligence (AI) policy debates are replete with metaphors. In this podcast, we explore some challenges presented by the central...
The internet of things is already making us reimagine daily life, but could artificial intelligence be the key to reaching the full potentia...
As artificial intelligence (AI) companies and other organisations are seeking ways to comply with ethical principles and requirements, block...
Sequencing and analysis of the human genome, all the genetic information stored in our DNA, enable understanding about a person's ancestry,...
Efforts to curb carbon emissions are falling short. As climate change impacts become all too clear, geoengineering is again in the spotlight...
With its recent European Green Deal framework, the EU is striving to achieve climate neutrality in its economy by 2050 and, simultaneously,...
As schools re-open, employees return to work and airports get busier, thermal imaging cameras powered by artificial intelligence are proving...
Even if autonomous vehicles need to detect traditional signals and allocate uncertainty areas while sharing the public thoroughfare with non...
Regenerative medicine (RM) is an interdisciplinary field that applies engineering and life science techniques to restore tissues and organs...
While some argue that AI can potentially be useful or even indispensable in ‘green transitions', important questions remain open. Should AI...
Globally one out of eight million species are threatened with extinction, and Europe is no exception to this trend… The EU's 2030 diversity...
While commonly consumed in many parts of the world, insects have long been off the menu in Europe…but they could soon be creeping their way...
We shop ‘til we drop, and chuck out just as fast… But this fast fashion, throwaway consumer culture is destroying our planet and creating hu...
With no reliable prognosis or effective treatment, dementia is a growing public health concern in Europe and world-wide...But what if artifi...