Atomium Culture

The Place of War in Modernity

Is war not the antithesis of "modern"? Isn't modernity synonymous with peace and humanity-the Good, the True and the Beautiful?

Muscles made of plastic

With the help of novel materials, we can let biology inspire us when constructing new devices

Dolls, Candy and Mechanism Design Theory

The problem of allocating a number of indivisible objects among a set of agents

Talking Technology

What can we do if we want to grant the power of speech to our machines and tools?

Oxygen maps of tumors

Diagnostic help for cancer treatment

Bolivia's New Constitution: Changes and Challenges

At certain points, the long and stony road followed to get there was threatening the stability of the state

'One Health, one Medicine' Using research to assist both man and beast

"Research funded by the Wellcome Trust and implemented jointly by UK and Kenyan-based institutions investigates epidemiology of zoonotic diseases - these are diseases transmitted between animals and people"

Healing chronic wounds - it could be possible

In fighting against diabetic wounds, researchers in Poland are studying the possibility of using the ancient tactic of the Trojan Horse

What is the abode of cultural memory: land or people?

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Does the history of a people stem from the land they live on or from the written words of their predecessors?

Resource Sharing in Mobile Environments: the Next Frontier of Social Networking

Novel Middleware for Green Exploitation of Social Sharing in Opportunistic Mobile Environments

Carrying drugs to target

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The exciting technology of hydrogels

Brain tropism

Traffic signals inside the brain

Production of peat moss

An eco-friendly horticultural substrate and part of the solution to global warming?

Avoiding a cyber-triggered catastrophe

The fall of old dogmas and the emergence of a new paradigm for building resilient computer systems for critical infrastructures

Quantum Mechanics returns to Ancient Greece

The fall of old dogmas and the emergence of a new paradigm for building resilient computer systems for critical infrastructures

How philosophy was saved thanks to a slaughter

What if the fate of one gifted Greek sage had been different ...

We are what we eat

Understanding the complex network controlling energy balance and feeding behaviour can help overcome obesity

Understanding tinnitus

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Computer models might give rise to new treatment strategies

Latin American Internationalism - An Example for Europe?

The Sandinista Revolution was an important modern demonstration of the internationalist ideals of Latin America

Diabetes Destroys Vessels - Can We Prevent This?

At the Jagiellonian University in Poland we are helping to understand the biology of vascular cell damage in diabetes

Stem Cell Research to Speed Delivery of New Medicines

One of the most far-reaching benefits of stem cell research is likely to be the accelerated development of new drugs

We are what we eat

Looking at healthy and unhealthy compounds in our food

Hunting the bugs

Viral infections impose an enormous disease burden on humanity, but our knowledge about pathogenic viruses is rather incomplete

The secret story of ants

We are because we share!

Is Sport Making a Perfect Body?

Peak Performance and a Underweight Body - a Double-Edged Sword?

Searching for Prometheus: Cell therapy and tissue engineering for heart disease

We are engineering human stem cells to repair damaged hearts

The eyes and the computer

How to communicate with a computer without using hands? A 29-year-old Computer Science Ph.D. invented a system that allows paralysed people to control a computer through blinking

Testimonial give and take

An ancient method for judging and using testimony, still valuable today

The Particles We Never Exhale ...

Millions of people die each year due to air pollution - a novel device has made it possible to measure the amount of airborne particles that are deposited in the lungs

"Please Turn Off All Electronic Devices"

The Future of Nanostructured Transparent Coatings as Electromagnetic Shields

Assessing the geohazard from submarine landslides

Trying to unravel the distribution of submarine landslides in the continental margins of Europe

Does Education Have to Pay Off?

The value of education and knowledge

Experimental research on heading perception

Therapeutic applications and their benefits

Biographical Ghosts

The Haunting of the Writer Karoline von Günderrode

Small is Good

Dressing at the Nanoscale

Darwin's dream

Researchers at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris developed a unique set of computer programs to reconstruct the genomes of ancestral species using their descendents' versions

Yellow-Tasting Sounds?

Genius Lies in the Cross-Sensory World of the Synaesthete

Landmine clearance: revealing differences in US and Norwegian approaches to insecurity

What can a study of landmine clearance tell us about the countries, their values and the national policies behind these efforts? Apparently quite a lot

Growing new blood vessels to dodge heart disease

The story of proangiogenic gene therapy

Genes for New Arterias

Growing new blood vessels to dodge heart disease: the story of proangiogenic gene therapy

Why do cancer cells play out of tune?

Try to imagine that what is happening within our cells is a sort of ‘symphony'. The music is complex, performed by thousands of players who need to be directed. The tune that cells play is determined by small segments of DNA-genes

Counting on the Tree of Life

Life manages genetic informations by processes that include simple forms of mathematical operations