The EU is seeking to limit growing threats from blazes through the use of satellites, artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles.
As medical centres increasingly come under attack from hackers, Europe is bolstering protection.
With cyberattacks on the rise against everything from businesses to critical infrastructure, companies,…
Technological developments in evidence gathering hold out promise of fewer offences going unpunished.
Recycling silicon from solar panels advances Europe’s green goals as well as creating jobs and harnessing scarce resources.
Retrofitting housing to be more energy efficient and provide equitable benefits for all is essential to make Europe carbon neutral. The job is challenging and complex and some people have trust…
There are about 1,500 potentially active volcanoes worldwide and about 50 eruptions occur each year. But it’s still difficult to predict when and how these eruptions will happen or how they’ll unfold…
Artificial intelligence (AI) used by governments and the corporate sector to detect and extinguish online extreme speech often misses important cultural nuance, but bringing in independent…
Dr Luciano Zuccarello grew up in the shadow of Mount Etna, an active volcano on the Italian island of Sicily. Farms and orchards ring the lower slopes of the volcano, where the fertile soil is ideal…
Professor Guillermo Rein, a fire scientist, tells Horizon why smouldering peatland fires are so dangerous and why we know so little about them.
Online voting is often considered a way to improve voter turnout and security. But according to Dr Steve Kremer of the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, computer…
_(2).jpg?itok=loAHcfFP "The 2017 Chilean wildfires, along with those in Portugal, were confirmation that the new type of fire was here to stay. Image credit - Pablo Trincado, licensed under CC BY 2.0")
We’re fighting a different kind of wildfire whose behaviour experts are struggling to predict.
Robust, intelligent robots that react to their surroundings are being developed to work in situations that are too dangerous for humans, such as cleaning up Europe’s decades-old radioactive waste or…