In the two years since the launch of the EU’s eCall emergency response system, which automatically calls emergency services in the event of a road accident, manufacturers have been quick to implement the life-saving technology,…
President of the European Council Charles Michel during a video conference © European Union The coronavirus pandemic has devastated Europe, particularly Italy and Spain. However, it has also tested and continues to challenge all the…
A new high-pressure ventilator developed by NASA engineers and tailored to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients passed a critical test Tuesday at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, an epicenter of…
Speech by President von der Leyen in a virtually empty hemicycle at the European Parliament Plenary on the EU coordinated action to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences. Many years ago, I went…
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is launching a project for the digital linking of design and layout for cabin concepts. Radically new research approaches are putting cabin designs at the centre of aircraft development….
NIST scientists used advanced imaging techniques to create digital replicas of these important historical artifacts. In the palm of his hand, Thomas Brian Renegar held two small metal objects that had changed the course of…
© Moderna Julius Caesar simply couldn’t understand fear, according to William Shakespeare. “Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,” he says in the eponymous play (Act 2, Scene 2), “It seems to me…
Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington © federalreserve.gov The most international crisis of history, the Covid-19, has so far officially taken 171,000 lives, and has officially contaminated over 2.5 million people on the planet as…
As countries around the world effectively shut down to tackle the spread of the coronavirus, the authoritarian president of Belarus was urging citizens to drink vodka – when not at work – and visit the…
There are, I was once told, two types of traitor. There is the idealist, keen to achieve his (or her) political aims at huge personal risk, seeking success as the only reward. And there is…
In a relatively unsafe world, the last thing we all need is for some unstable country or group to get hold of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and, worse still, threaten another country or group…
Persons using the facility will have a temperature check before entering an enclosed channel for the 40-second disinfection and sanitizing procedures Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) is applying the latest disinfection technologies, including disinfection channels,…
There is an old legal saying, “Justice delayed is justice denied”, which is variously attributed to the 19th century British Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone and to William Penn, founder of the American state of…
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round magenta objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The…
By Clara Bauman Click here to read the 2020 April edition of Europe Diplomatic Magazine
