A University of Toronto Engineering team has collaborated with researchers in the Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Centre for Image Guided Innovation and Therapeutic Intervention at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) to create a set of tiny robotic tools that could enable ‘keyhole surgery’ in the brain. 

In a paper published in Science Robotics, the team demonstrated the ability of these tools — only about 3 millimetres in diameter — to grip, pull and cut tissue. Their extremely small size is made possible by the fact that they are powered not by motors but by external magnetic fields.

The $500,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission wants to improve economic development in the region through sustainable non-timber forest farming practices.

The University of Malaga has been selected for the first time ever to coordinate an innovation project under the Horizon Europe - European Innovation Council (EIC), `Pathfinder Challenges’ programme, which promotes initiatives that "open new scientific frontiers and revolutionise technology." In total, 31 of the 415 proposals submitted from 48 countries, will be funded. Eight have been granted in Spain.The University of Malaga has been selected for the first time ever to coordinate an innovation project under the Horizon Europe - European Innovation Council (EIC), `Pathfinder Challenges’ programme, which promotes initiatives that "open new scientific frontiers and revolutionise technology." In total, 31 of the 415 proposals submitted from 48 countries, will be funded. Eight have been granted in Spain.The University of Malaga has been selected for the first time ever to coordinate an innovation project under the Horizon Europe - European Innovation Council (EIC), `Pathfinder Challenges’ programme, which promotes initiatives that "open new scientific frontiers and revolutionise technology." In total, 31 of the 415 proposals submitted from 48 countries, will be funded. Eight have been granted in Spain.

How does scientific model-building influence the energy transition – and with it our future? Models, and how they are presented, determine our thinking, but their foundations often remain invisible. The transdisciplinary research project Poetik der Modelle at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is investigating how we shape the future with energy transition models, and how we can communicate about them in a more accessible way. Funded as a Reinhart Koselleck project by the German Research Foundation (DFG), it questions the practices of modeling and aims to improve transparency, participation, and inclusion in the transformation of our energy system.