Νοέμβριος 2013

Natural gas and crude oil are important reserves of alkanes held by tight bonds difficult to break. Scientists developed novel catalysts operating at room temperature for higher alkane yields under environmentally benign conditions.

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Modern society depends greatly on its transport, telecommunications and logistics networks. A wide range of methods exists for network optimisation, but one EU-supported project is helping to make these more robust and self-organising.

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A training programme has equipped the next generation of European scientists to work at one of the largest ground-based astronomy project of the next decade — the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA). Opened in 2013, ALMA will produce groundbreaking work in astrophysics in the coming years.

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