Modern photonic systems increasingly rely on complex nonlinear optical processes at the foundation of demanding applications spanning advanced light source development, metrology and imaging. Importantly, current flagship imaging systems are based on nonlinear light-mat...

How do supermassive black holes (SMBHs) turn their accretion “on” and “off”? How fast can they grow? How is this related to their circumnuclear environments? What are the consequences for the emergence of the first SMBHs and their co-evolution with galaxies? The key to ...

How do people reach the highest echelons of politics? Traditionally, the answer has been through political parties. Yet recently, more and more politicians in Europe take office with little or no party socialization. Technocrats and political outsiders have assumed powe...

The classical distinction between transition metal and main group compounds has recently been challenged. This is due to the extraordinary properties and reactivity of low-valent and radical main group species, which chemists have begun to unveil. The development of rel...

The European Consortium for Communicating Gene and Cell Therapy Information (EuroGCT) unites 49 partner organisations and institutions across Europe, including the major European advanced therapies learned societies, with the common goal of providing reliable and access...

A serious open issue is that there is no widely accepted solution to the Quantum Gravity Problem. This results in paradoxes and clouds the study of many problems from the cosmology of the early Universe to unified theories of fundamental interactions that should incorpo...

Plant productivity in pristine ecosystems like boreal and tropical cloud forests is limited by soil nutrients, primarily nitrogen (N). Mosses are major contributors to ecosystem productivity in these habitats, and most of them are colonized by N2-fixing cyanobacteria, t...

The past four years have witnessed dramatic discoveries surrounding the birth of gravitational wave astronomy. By their nature, gravitational waves are ideal probes with which to test the laws of gravity – something currently under scrutiny due to unresolved questions a...

We propose a productive and efficient programming model to overcome the challenges posed by the end of Moore’s law. Our model bases on a fundamentally new spatial viewpoint that considers the computational structure of applications. The growth of the computing industry ...

Nucleic acid-based medicines have opened a new avenue in drug discovery to target currently undruggable genes and to express therapeutic proteins, unlocking novel therapeutic options for a range of diseases, including neurodegeneration. However, they need to be encapsul...