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How Enset Could Unlock Youth Entrepreneurship and Resilient Food Systems in East Africa. In the search for solutions to Africa's food security challenges, attention often turns to new technologies or imported crops.

Strategically placed nylon seams can compensate for the weaknesses of wooden laminates. The process significantly increases the load-bearing capacity and opens up new possibilities in vehicle, sports equipment and timber construction.

A tiny crystal chip which uses terahertz radiation to see clearly through a wide range of materials could find applications in healthcare, biological research, and security screening. Researchers from Scotland and Japan have developed the lightweight superconducting chip, which they say could unlock the full potential of terahertz imaging technologies and lead to the development of more poweful and portable devices.

Dice, cards and tokens usually belong on the kitchen table on game night. But what if they could also be used to help improve collaboration in the workplace?

Instead of using more and more concrete and steel, a European research team including Empa is focusing on intelligent shapes, digital manufacturing, and alternative binders.

Today, Carnegie Mellon researchers are directly advancing the next generation of energy innovation by helping to design resilient, transportable microreactors.

Increasingly, people with type 1 diabetes are wearing a glucose sensor. These sensors measure blood glucose levels day and night, generating enormous amounts of data - but what happens with all that information?

The Thuringian Innovation Center for Mobility at the TU Ilmenau is launching a research group that aims to make autonomous vehicles safer and road traffic more efficient.

The number of FinTech companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein increased slightly in 2025. At the same time, the technological focus is shifting towards data- and AI-based solutions.

Acoustic measurements carried out on the Walcker organ in St. Jacob's Church in Ilmenau marked an important milestone in a European research project dedicated to the large-scale digitization of traditional and ancient musical instruments.

The Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory (CSSL) is celebrating a strong first year of research, collaboration and public impact.

Emerging medical technologies are testing how law regulates ownership, data and responsibility when devices become part of the person.

ISTA Professor Andela Šaric & colleagues receive FWF grant for pioneering scientific work The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is part of a new research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) with 5.1 million Euro as part of the excellent=austria initiative.