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The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious scientific award in the world, and winning one is the ultimate accolade. Did you know that more than 30 Nobel Prizes have been won by EU-funded researchers, including seven in just the last four years.
Like plants and animals, languages are threatened when their native habitats grow too small. In the case of endangered languages, those habitats are the communities of speakers that keep them alive in a world that often does not give them enough recognition.
Europe is a treasure-trove of archaeological sites, but many of them are under threat. From development projects to illegal excavations and climate change, these sites and their fragile relics seem to face danger on all sides.
Researchers sought to put opera back at the heart of living culture, giving some of society’s most-marginalised groups – young offenders, migrants and the rural poor shared ownership of the culture that expresses European values.
Have you ever noticed how the richly resonant timbre of the cello resembles a human voice? Or how the drumbeat in a film can start your blood pumping? Music can mimic the emotional human voice. The notes can sound like a sad voice, an angry voice or a reassuring one.
Researchers are using virtual and augmented reality to reconstruct cultural sites in 3D and make visiting them even more exciting. Like travelling back in a virtual time machine, this new tech can reveal buildings’ hidden secrets: how they were used in the past and how they evolved over centuries.