Editorial
With holidays and cool spring weather in many parts of Europe, CORDIS Express returns with a week’s worth of news, project results and EU-funded research. An EU funded food technology project underway to help alleviate poverty by preventing food losses. An international team of EU-funded astronomers has discovered help in distinguishing between dwarfs and giant planets. Read about how innovations are inspired by challenge. Researchers have seen how the brain avoids congestion and how sex chromosomes won't become extinct after all. Finally and Briefly confirms that physics is difficult for everybody.
The first News article highlights a project that will help alleviate poverty. News article number two reveals that EU-funded astronomers have just discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. Next, read about brain networks may avoid traffic jams at their busiest junctions by communicating on different frequencies.
In the Innovation section, read about European robotics research.
The Future of Research highlights how sex chromosomes won't become extinct after all.
Read about a solar cell production project in Around Europe.
In Finally and Briefly, there’s at least one are of science where humans are well ahead of computers.