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Happy birthday, FET!

The European Future and Emerging Technologies Programme has turned 30. A video is celebrating the extraordinary results and impacts from FET-funded research

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Latest stories in Artificial intelligence & IT

Computing with super-human powers

Verifying next-generation computing simulations

Scientific model algorithms get a makeover to increase confidence in results

Plant roots inspire 3D-printed automotive sensors

Superfast all-RAM processors could bring high-performance computers to the masses

Let there be light-processed computing

Levitation becomes a reality

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Latest stories in Biotech & Health

Shedding new light on human well-being

Can nanotechnology rewire an injured spinal cord?

The ByAxon project is developing a new implant that restores the transmission of electrical signals in an injured central nervous system

Do you speak DNA?

Saving lives during cancer surgery by separating the good from the bad

Interfacing biology with computer science

The robots which can make you walk again

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Latest stories in Culture & Society

A fresh look at how we live our lives

FETFX, the laurel is yours!

fetfx.eu has won the 2018 .eu Web Awards in the “Laurels” category, an acknowledgment of fetfx.eu’s mission to inform society of the benefits from European research on Future and Emerging Technologies

FET People: Paul Lukowicz on how high-risk research can change the world

The perfect present when turning 30? A video!

The Final gets a taste of FET

Bringing EU regions to the fore of innovation

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Latest stories in Energy & Environment

Revolutionary ideas to protect the planet

A robo-vegetal hybrid society is rising

Plants can grow elaborate shapes for public spaces through a network of sensors and 3D-printed robotic nodes

FET People: Martina Szopek and Vaios Papaspyros on the use of AI to protect species

Robotic spies among bees

Creating longer lasting batteries by using Jenga

All you need is batteries

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Latest stories in Nanotech & Materials

Tiny thinking with huge potential

New ‘Quantum Sorter’ provides information on demand at the atomic scale

Radical techniques in electron microscopy could revolutionise studies in physics, biochemistry, materials and more

Microscopic antennas to peer into nano-sized worlds

Lizard skins and bark bugs inspire energy saving materials

Trapping light using Tetris-like clusters of crystals

Thinking like Peter Parker

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