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...

EUR 761m EU funding for next generation of talented scientists in Europe

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 5, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

478 early-career researchers from across Europe are to receive ‘Starting Grants’ worth a total of EUR 761 million under EU’s Horizon Europe programme. The grants, awarded by the European Research Council (ERC), will support excellent research across diverse fields,...

Sustainable process breaks down keratin, turning leftover wool and feathers into useful products

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 5, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The textile and meat-processing industries produce billions of tons of waste annually in the form of feathers, wool and hair, all of which are rich in keratin—the strong, fibrous protein found in hair, skin and nails. Turning all that animal waste into useful...

Human impact on the ocean will double by 2050, UCSB scientists warn

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 5, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the oceans can seem limitless in their abundance and impervious to...

Danish Presidency debriefs EP committees on priorities

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 5, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council. Denmark holds the Presidency of the Council until the end of 2025. This text will be updated regularly as the hearings take place....