For years, the main obstacle encouraging farmers to use gene-edited crops in Europe was the law, not the laboratory. That balance has now shifted. According to executives behind a new
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Slovenia has moved a step closer to deciding what to do with its spent nuclear fuel, after a new cost study found that burying the waste from the country’s research
In this op-ed, journalist Robert Jules, former deputy editor-in-chief of La Tribune and co-author of Reforger la France, reviews Ed Conway’s Material World for The European Scientist. Through sand, salt,
“Homo creator will never have created so much in so little time” Alain Madelin (interview)
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Former French Minister of the Economy and Finance (1995), Minister of Industry (1986-1988) and then of Enterprise and Economic Development (1993-1995), founder of Idées Action and president of Démocratie libérale
The European Union and its six Western Balkan partners have signed a joint declaration promising to deepen cooperation in research and innovation, in a move Brussels hopes will help bring
“Influence comes from being useful at the right moment” Nazim S. Gruda (interview, part 1)
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Elected unanimously in Tirana in September 2026 as President of the Union of European Academies for Sciences Applied to Agriculture, Food and Nature (UEAA) for 2026–2028, Albanian-born horticultural scientist Nazim
Marc Rameaux, an AI specialist and regular contributor to The European Scientist, sees Yann LeCun as the David Hume of our time. Tracing the career of the pioneer of convolutional
The European Union’s new AI Act is barely out of the gate and already being pushed to its limits. A string of incidents over the summer, in which AI agents
Belgium has become the second EU country to formally sign on to a European Commission plan aimed at pushing member states to properly enforce the bloc’s water laws. On 19
England’s drought is getting worse, even after a wetter week brought welcome rainfall to parts of the country. According to a report published by the UK’s Environment Agency, reservoirs are