Researchers are using new technologies, including AI, as well as contributions from citizen scientists, to improve how we monitor and protect increasingly threatened habitats and species across Europe.

One EU-funded project in the 1990s turned the medical world on its head by introducing 3D printing to healthcare. This led to much better outcomes for complicated surgeries, improving the lives of thousands of patients.

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well these algorithms can prepare us for incoming space storms that can wreak havoc by knocking out satellites in space and power grids on Earth.

EU investment in the push for ever smaller and more powerful microchips is helping support innovation in AI, the space industry and beyond.

Providing electricity to power-hungry data centres is stressing grids, raising prices for consumers, and slowing the transition to clean energy, say researchers.

MAD Design Fellow Zane Schemmer writes algorithms that optimise overall function, minimise carbon footprint, and produce a manufacturable design.