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(Royal Society of Chemistry) You don't need a wine expert to identify a '74 Pinot Noir from Burgundy -- a handheld "electronic tongue" devised by European scientists will tell you the grape variety and vintage at the press of a button.

(European Science Foundation) Leading European scientists say that there is an "urgent need" for greater coordination and harmonization between Europe's biobanks -- repositories of genetic and other information from large numbers of people that can be used to investigate complex diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's.

A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's open-access journal.

They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.

A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's open-access journal.

They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.

Digital logic, or bits, is the only paradigm for the IT world, and up to now researchers used it almost exclusively to study quantum information processing.

But European scientists have proved that an analogue approach is far easier in the quantum world. Modern computing is digital, a series of 1s and 0s that, once combined, create powerful information processing systems.

The system is so simple – on or off, yes or no – that it almost seems dumb. It is that very simplicity that gives digital computing its power.

It works very well. But we have a problem.