Unravelling the “Inconvenient Truth” of glacier movement

Predicting climate change depends on many factors not properly included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting around their edges. This in turn requires greater understanding of the processes at work when ice is under stress,...

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Editorial: Road map with vision for the ERA

Please click here for an editorial written by ESF President Professor Ian Halliday on The ESF EUROHORCs Science Policy Briefing 33: The EUROHORCs and ESF Vision on a Globally Competitive ERA and their Road Map for Actions to Help Build it. For more details about the Action Plan – please go to...

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EUROHORCs , ESF commit to play key role in shaping a competitive ERA

In an effort to help build a competitive European Research Area (ERA), the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) have published their vision on the ERA and have joined forces in a Road Map with proposed actions to achieve it.  The ESF...

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European Science Foundation aims to strengthen regenerative medicine

14 Member Organisations* of the European Science Foundation have launched a key initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of regenerative medicine; broadly defined as the development of stem cell therapies to restore lost, damaged, or ageing cells and tissues in the human body.Stem cells are the...

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EuroDYNA leaves healthy genomic research ecosystem as legacy

Europe’s position as a major player in genome research has been boosted by the European Science Foundation’s three-year EUROCORES programme EuroDYNA. As it draws to a close, EuroDYNA (Dynamic Nuclear Architecture and Chromatin Function) is leaving behind a healthy European ecosystem of interacting...

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Europe-wide investment in Lipid research will help tackle disease, says new report

Leading scientists today called for Europe to invest more funds into the study of lipids – the ‘fatty’ molecules that play a crucial role in the function of human cells and which are implicated in a range of diseases from obesity and diabetes to Alzheimer’s.Common lipids such as cholesterol are...

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2008 Millennium Technology Prize Awarded to Professor Robert Langer for Intelligent Drug Delivery

The 2008 Millennium Technology Prize was presented to Professor Robert Langer today in Helsinki for developing innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release. The world’s largest technology prize is awarded by Technology Academy Finland for a technological innovation that significantly...

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EuroDYNA takes lid off the genome

European researchers have made significant progress unravelling how genes are governed and why this sometimes goes wrong in disease. The key lies in the dynamic ever-changing structure of the chromatin, which is the underlying complex of protein and DNA making up the chromosomes in which almost all...

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Europe gets together to harness quantum physics

The long cherished goal of applying the strange properties of quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world we inhabit has been brought closer by a series of recent developments. The exciting progress was made in the important field of quantum optics and discussed recently at a high level conference...

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Finding out what the big bang and ink jets have in common

ESF workshop tackles the mathematics of singularities

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