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PeasyPay: the European solution for biometric payments by EIT Digital
A new system developed by EIT Digital start-up PeasyPay is allowing people to pay by just showing their faces and taking a picture of...
€7m to improve agriculture and aquaculture in Africa
The Horizon 2020 project, FoodLAND, has been awarded €7m to develop a range of innovations for agriculture and aquaculture in Africa.
The project’s main goal...
High energy physics in China
Professor Yifang Wang spoke to The Innovation Platform about high energy physics in China and the multifaceted work taking place at the Institute of...
New UK funding programme to distribute £109m to UK innovators
The UK Government has announced a new funding programme, worth £109m, for more than 100 of the UK’s top scientists to convert their innovative...
Reduced pollution amid the COVID-19 lockdowns saved thousands of lives
New study shows that the reduction of air pollution during the COVID-19 lockdowns has averted tens of thousands of deaths in Europe and Asia.
According...
Scientist develop new multi-purpose antiviral bioactive material
Researchers from the University College London, UK, have published a paper in Applied Physics Reviews describing new methods of producing core-sheath polymer fibres to...
Exploring robotics and AI in a clinical setting with the ODIN project
A research team from the University of Warwick has been awarded €13m for the ODIN project, which will explore the use of robotics and...
Increased levels of atmospheric soluble iron discovered in Chinese cities
New research conducted by the University of Birmingham, UK, has revealed that atmospheric, industrial and vehicle pollution in East China is boosting the amount...
Machine learning and mass spectrometry to improve drug development
Researchers from Purdue University, USA, have combined machine learning and tandem mass spectrometry to improve the flow of information in drug development.
Tandem mass spectrometry...
New cost-effective way of tuning laser wavelengths to infrared
A team of researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has discovered a cost-effective way of tuning laser wavelengths to infrared.
The INRS...