Δεκέμβριος 2013

An innovative new way of providing personal behavioural guidance to children and young adults could play a crucial role in tackling the ongoing obesity epidemic. The EU-funded SPLENDID project, which is being coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, will use high-tech sensors to record eating habits and physical activity across the course of a day, and provide valuable - and accurate - information to users and health-professionals.

An innovative new three-year research project will see the aquaculture, agriculture and biogas sectors working together to develop renewable energy. The initiative demonstrates how improving sustainability, reducing waste and achieving operational efficiencies can be achieved simultaneously.

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Scientists have long sought to determine whether heredity is one of the factors responsible for increased risk of thyroid cancer, but their results have been inconclusive... until now.

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The Internet has become a victim of its own success - its size and scope makes further development very difficult, holding back innovation. Changes to improve today's Internet or to add new services have to be introduced slowly, in an incremental manner, with even minor changes only being made through the accretion of point solutions that embed knowledge in the network, optimising today's applications at the expense of tomorrow's.