EU body that funds frontier scientific research across Europe through competitive grants to individual researchers.
Researchers at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara report in Science that the rare 15N15N form of nitrogen gas tracks how much nitrogen microbes convert to gas. Air dissolved in water normally hides that microbial gas, so the signal shows nitrogen removal that conventional methods obscure.
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Technion researchers built an electrolysis process that makes an epoxide in place of oxygen, at 98% efficiency for both reactions. Selling a chemical alongside the fuel could help green hydrogen compete on cost, but only once the process holds up in sustained industrial use.
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University of Cologne researchers report leucine boosts mitochondrial respiration by curbing SEL1L, a protein that marks membrane proteins for breakdown. Because SEL1L also clears damaged proteins, the study's first author urges caution about suppressing it to gain energy.
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Einstein Probe recorded nearly ten minutes of X-ray light from a July 2025 neutron-star merger whose gamma-ray burst lasted about half a second. The team links the long glow to a newborn magnetar, a reading that so far rests on this single event.
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Europe's €500 million Choose Europe for Science package is about 0.3% of the up to $177 billion in US federal grants cut. US researchers' applications to European programmes number in the hundreds, so the talent employers can count today is a small academic intake.
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More than 120 scientists, mostly ERC grantees, argue in Science that fragmented funding keeps Europe's strong research from reaching the market. Their main fix is to hand ERC Proof of Concept grants to the European Innovation Council, a proposal that rests on the members' own experience and has not been tested against outcomes.
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A Copenhagen-led team reports in Nature a faint trail of tidally stripped stars inside the ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC9050-Dw1, where the mass it implies agrees with earlier estimates for the same galaxy.
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Matthijs Wibier read the faded Latin under ultraviolet light and found provisions that match no surviving Roman code, which is a real find and also a measure of how little fourth-century law survives.
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