On February 1st, 2026 with 32 comments
The EU "has switched on parts of its homegrown secure satellite communications network for the first time," reports Bloomberg, calling it part of a €10.6...
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On October 24th, 2025 with 34 comments
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales are merging their space divisions into a new France-based company that aims to create a "leading European player in space." The...
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On October 11th, 2025 with 13 comments
Off the southwest cost of Italy, a remotely operated submarine made "a significant and rare discovery," reports the Independent — a vast white coral reef...
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On October 8th, 2025 with 193 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: MEPs voted on Wednesday by 355 in favor to 247 against to reserve names such as "steak", "burger" and...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 71 comments
Jersey is an island in the English channel, "a self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of northwest France," according to Wikipedia —...
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On November 17th, 2024 with 44 comments
Nyx is a new reusable space capsule that "safely and affordably carries cargo to and from space stations," according to the web page of its European-based...
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On November 3rd, 2024 with 32 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from the blog Interesting Engineering: A team of students made history this month by performing Europe's...
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On March 20th, 2024 with 93 comments
The European Union has agreed to launch four Galileo navigation satellites on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at a 30 percent premium over the standard launch price....
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On September 6th, 2022 with 138 comments
Europe's energy crisis is threatening to slow experiments into the fundamental forces of nature. From a report: The European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
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On August 19th, 2022 with 166 comments
Europe is seriously considering developing space-based solar power to increase its energy independence and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the leader of the...
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On July 6th, 2022 with 183 comments
British scientists and academic researchers have been dealt a blow after 115 grants from a flagship EU research programme were terminated because of the...
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On December 25th, 2021 with 149 comments
"Early benchmarks from Denmark on infections and hospitalizations are providing grounds for guarded optimism that highly vaccinated countries might be able to...
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On December 7th, 2021 with 184 comments
European space company ArianeGroup will develop a reusable mini-launcher to compete with the likes of Elon Musk's SpaceX, French Finance Minister Bruno Le...
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On July 29th, 2021 with 192 comments
gollum123 shares a report from The New York Times: The 27 member states of the European Union altogether have now administered more coronavirus vaccine doses...
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On July 17th, 2021 with 82 comments
"Since Joe Biden took office [in January], about two dozen U.S. intelligence officers, diplomats, and other government officials in Vienna have reported...
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On March 18th, 2021 with 130 comments
A digital certificate to kick-start foreign travel should be given to citizens across the EU "without discrimination," officials say. From a report: The aim is...
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On March 17th, 2021 with 340 comments
A whole list of countries -- including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Latvia -- have suspended dosing of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine over reports...
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On December 9th, 2020 with 40 comments
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), the EU regulatory body in charge of approving COVID-19 vaccines, said today it was the victim of a cyber-attack. From a...
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On October 31st, 2020 with 305 comments
Europe "now accounts for 46% of global coronavirus cases," reports ABC News, "and nearly a third of total related deaths."
Dr. Jean-Francois Delfraissy, a...
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On September 19th, 2020 with 15 comments
"Earlier this week, scientists announced the discovery of phosphine on Venus, a potential signature of life. Now, in an amazing coincidence, a European and...
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On August 25th, 2020 with 69 comments
Two patients were reinfected with the coronavirus in Europe, according to local broadcasters who confirmed the incidents with virologists. The Hill reports: ...
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On July 26th, 2020 with 13 comments
"A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun," reports the Associated Press, "revealing countless little 'campfires"...
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On July 6th, 2020 with 84 comments
Tesla is building mobile molecule printers to produce a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed in Germany by CureVac, reports Reuters:
CureVac, an...
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On June 27th, 2020 with 265 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader hankwang writes: The New York Times has an article on how the transmission of Covid-19 by seemingly healthy individuals was...
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On June 27th, 2020 with 382 comments
Sweden's population is not quite twice the size of Norway's — yet Sweden has reported 21 times as many deaths from Covid-19, prompting many countries to...
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On June 21st, 2020 with 256 comments
An anonymous reader quotes The Washington Post:
In the global race for a coronavirus vaccine, more than 100 labs, universities and drug companies have started...
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On June 7th, 2020 with 112 comments
"SpaceX may be best known for revolutionizing rocket launches with its reusable rockets..." writes Digital Trends, but now, "Europe wants to get in on the...
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On May 29th, 2020 with 152 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU continued their fall in 2018, the latest year for which comprehensive...
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On May 23rd, 2020 with 389 comments
Sweden's death rate per million (376) "is far in advance of Norway's (44), Denmark's (96) and Finland's (55) — countries with similar welfare systems and...
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On May 10th, 2020 with 14 comments
"France is integrating new AI tools into security cameras in the Paris metro system to check whether passengers are wearing face masks," reports the Verge:
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