Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine

Uncertainty about the effects that many medications can have on the unborn child leave a large number of pregnant women with untreated conditions. Image credit - Greyerbaby, licensed under CC0

Health

23 July 2018

Finding drugs that are safe to take while pregnant

Medical data is helping mothers-to-be make choices about medicines.

Endometriosis, where the lining of the womb grows elsewhere in the pelvis, affects around one in 10 women. Image credit - KGH, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Health

19 July 2018

Non-invasive tests to provide quicker diagnosis of endometriosis

Complex and painful disease has been historically overlooked, researchers say.

Interview

18 July 2018

We need a drone register to ensure privacy and safety - air traffic expert

Robin Garrity says that registration, identification and geofencing will increase security.

Health | 23 July 2018

Finding drugs that are safe to take while pregnant

Medical data is helping mothers-to-be make choices about medicines.

Health | 19 July 2018

Non-invasive tests to provide quicker diagnosis of endometriosis

Complex and painful disease has been historically overlooked, researchers say.

Interview | 18 July 2018

We need a drone register to ensure privacy and safety - air traffic expert

Robin Garrity says that registration, identification and geofencing will increase security.

Thomas Carell, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Interview | 10 July 2018

'Most people are still unaware that there is this second layer of information, which is dynamic and which changes.'

Chemical switches on DNA could explain how the environment may influence the traits we pass on, according to Prof. Thomas Carell.

Monthly focus

What’s the matter?

In July, Horizon takes a look at the most common form of matter in the universe – plasma – and discovers some of its most promising applications.

Frontier research | 17 July 2018

Lessons from a real Atlantis

Prehistoric villages buried under sand and sea tell tales of what future climate change might bring.

Mysterious radiation emitted from pulsars - like this one shown leaving a long tail of debris as it races through the Milky Way - have puzzled astronomers for decades. Image credit - NASA

Frontier research | 16 July 2018

Antimatter plasma reveals secrets of deep space signals

Supercomputers and table-top plasma reactors are unravelling how matter is created from out of the void.

One of the pressing questions that arise with artificial intelligence is how to account for the actions of machines that make decisions by themselves. Image credit - ITU Pictures, licensed under CC BY 2.0

Policy | 13 July 2018

Digital age 'desperately' needs ethical and legal guidelines

Technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics raise new problems for society.

Engaging with the public is essential to winning back trust in evidence-based policy making. Image credit - Pxhere, licensed under CC0

Policy | 12 July 2018

General public should have more input into scientific advice

Listening to people’s worries will help scientists communicate evidence.

$A plasma cell can help sustain stronger acceleration fields than in conventional accelerators, at only a fraction of their size. Image credit - © DESY, Heiner Müller-Elsner$

Frontier research | 09 July 2018

Plasma accelerators could overcome size limitations of Large Hadron Collider

Smaller but more powerful machines would open up a host of applications.

From the naked scientists

Fighter flight: The sky's the limit

In this week’s podcast The Naked Scientists celebrate 100 years of the RAF, the new F35 fighter jet and take flight through the history of fighter aircraft.

From More than a Dodo

Life’s big bang?

New evidence challenges existing views of the Cambrian Explosion, an event that suddenly saw all major animal groups appear in the fossil record.

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Swarm robots can prioritise tasks

New research paves the way for robot groups to solve problems on their own.

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Finding drugs that are safe to take while pregnant

Non-invasive tests to provide quicker diagnosis of endometriosis

We need a drone register to ensure privacy and safety - air traffic expert

Finding drugs that are safe to take while pregnant

Non-invasive tests to provide quicker diagnosis of endometriosis

We need a drone register to ensure privacy and safety - air traffic expert