For the first time passive acoustic monitoring data from all ecological realms have been catalogued on a global scale in a collective effort uniting 350 collaborators working in 57 different countries, coordinated by an INRAE team with French involvement from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN). A summary published in Global Ecology & Biogeography highlights the importance of international collaboration on high-stakes issues such as climate change and the decline in biodiversity.

Autonomous robots that organize themselves are the next step in working in and studying the ocean.

Researchers from Aalborg University are using artificial intelligence to analyze horses' facial expressions in order to investigate when they are stressed or in pain. The goal is to lay the foundation for new tools that can improve animal welfare.

A team of scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Harvard University have experimentally demonstrated that it is possible to reprogram the mechanical and structural behaviour of innovative artificial materials with magnetic properties, known as metamaterials, without the need to modify their composition. This technology opens the door to innovations in fields such as biomedicine and soft robotics, among others.

Graphene is a "miracle material": mechanically extremely strong and electrically highly conductive, ideal for related applications. Using a worldwide unique method physicists at the University of Vienna led by Jani Kotakoski have for the first time made graphene drastically more stretchable by rippling it like an accordion. This paves the way for new applications in which certain stretchability is required (e.g. wearable electronics). In a collaboration with the Vienna University of Technology the exact mechanism of this phenomenon has been revealed and published in the journal Physical Review Letters.