Researchers Find Key to Antarctic Ice Loss Blowing in the North Wind

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 11, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Most of the Earth’s fresh water is locked in the ice that covers Antarctica. As the ocean and atmosphere grow warmer, that ice is melting at a startling pace with sea levels and global currents changing in response. To understand the potential implications,...

From wood waste to key pharmaceutical ingredient: Sustainable method could lower high drug costs

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 10, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

One of the main factors driving prices in pharmaceuticals, such as cholesterol-lowering drugs and antibiotics, is the cost of production and materials. Researchers at the University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute (FBRI) have discovered a sustainable...

National parliaments engaging in a more dynamic political dialogue with the Commission, according to latest report

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 10, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The European Commission’s latest annual report on relations with national parliaments shows a wider range of legislatures now engaging in active political dialogue. National parliaments are increasingly working together to influence EU affairs, providing...

Leadership of women crucial to UN’s reinvention at 80, says former Assembly President

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 10, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Since the creation of the United Nations 80 years ago, only four women have served as President of the General Assembly, where all 193 UN Member States debate the key issues facing the world. On Tuesday, Germany’s Annalena Baerbock will become the first European woman...

The missing half: The urgent need for more women’s representation in the media

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 8, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Women make up half of the world’s population but receive only 26 per cent of media coverage, according to the latest UN-backed Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report, the world’s largest study on gender representation in news media. “When women are missing,...

Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with ‘JUPITER’

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 8, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The new JUPITER supercomputer, inaugurated by Commissioner Zaharieva and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, has officially become the first European system to achieve the exascale threshold – that is, performing more than one...