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The potential inflection point for the European battery industry
fDi Intelligence
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Europe has long since run out of domestically produced batteries. According to data by Fraunhofer ISI, the continent accounts for 25% of global battery demand, despite accounting for just 10% of global production. As of 2023, 80% of this demand...
Europe looks to Nordic space race to scale back US dependence
The Malaysian Star
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July 10, 2025
KIRUNA, Sweden (Reuters) -Two small spaceports in the far north of Sweden and Norway are racing to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe into space as the region looks to reduce its reliance on U.S. players. U.S. President Donald...
Stanford-led team shares honor for ‘revolutionizing’ study of high-energy cosmic phenomena
Stanford News - California
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July 7, 2025
The universe looks different when seen through NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Where the human eye sees deep black space with twinkling stars, Fermi shows a blazing strip of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light, extending across...
New radio station begins broadcasting from Stockholm public sauna
Mixmag
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July 7, 2025
A new radio station has launched within a public sauna in Stockholm. Sauna Radio began broadcasting on Saturday (July 5) from Eden Bastun, near Lake Mälaren; the radio's "floating deck" booth is set close to one of the venue's saunas, with a...
The US Military Emits More CO2 Than Sweden. But A Slight Budget Cut Could Have an Oversized Positive Effect
ZME Science
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July 7, 2025
When it comes to climate change impact, few institutions have cast a longer and heavier shadow than the United States military. Its footprint extends far beyond geopolitical frontiers, reaching into the very atmosphere that sustains us. Now, a new...
The Leaders’ Room: Enabling leadership with Ericsson’s Denis Dullea
Silicon Republic
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July 10, 2025
The latest episode of The Leaders’ Room features Denis Dullea, head of network management engineering at Ericsson and R&D site lead in Athlone. This series is created in partnership with IDA Ireland. In season three of The Leaders’ Room podcast,...
EU supercharges EV battery manufacturing with €852m funding
Innovation News Network
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July 7, 2025
This landmark investment, sourced from the EU’s Emissions Trading System via the Innovation Fund, marks a major step in Europe’s push to become a global leader in EV battery production. As demand for electric vehicles surges and the world shifts...
The US kind of owns the IAEA: Robert Kelley
Frontline - The Hindu
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July 10, 2025
Robert Kelley, a Distinguished Associate Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, has worked for over 35 years in the US Department of Energy’s (USDOE) nuclear weapons complex, most recently at Los Alamos in the State of New...
H&M adopts bodycam strategy amid industry trend to reduce retail shrinkage
Apparel Resources
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July 7, 2025
Image Courtesy: https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/ In an attempt to combat the rising rates of stealing and violent attacks on employees, H&M is the most recent retailer in the UK to provide body cameras to its employees. In response to mounting...
European spending drops as trade tensions hit consumer wallets
Euronews
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July 7, 2025
Published on 07/07/2025 - 11:44 GMT+2 Retail sales in the eurozone fell at their steepest monthly rate in nearly two years in May, as growing uncertainty over US trade tariffs weighed on consumer sentiment and curbed spending. According to first...
August rate cut may be off the table with Sweden’s inflation surge to 2.9%
Cryptopolitan
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July 7, 2025
Sweden’s inflation rate climbed to 2.9%, past analyst expectations, leading many to doubt whether the central bank will move forward with its anticipated August rate cut. In May, the country’s CPIF was 2.3%; thus, many analysts’ forecasts ranged...
World Associated Press Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Yahoo News
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Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology's commercial...
Alma and Rexbo Acquire Light Industrial Properties in Greater Stockholm
FM Industry
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July 7, 2025
Alma Property Partners and Rexbo Gröna Industrihus have acquired three light industrial property assets within the Länna industrial area of Stockholm’s Huddinge municipality in two separate transactions. Huddinge Fräsen 6 & 7 and Huddinge...
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland’s coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Winnipeg Free Press
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July 7, 2025
Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology’s commercial...
The new Volvo ES90: a big electric car with a small carbon footprint
Automotive World
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July 10, 2025
With the new and fully electric ES90, which starts production later this summer and is produced with climate-neutral energy, Volvo Cars launches a car designed with sustainability in mind With the new and fully electric ES90, which starts...
Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds
The Guardian
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July 7, 2025
Public ownership of the water industry in England and Wales is the best way to cut bills, improve pollution and invest in repairing infrastructure, according to a wide-ranging people’s commission into the industry. Set up by four academics with...
From Dar to Stockholm Kiswahili feels global
Daily News Tanzania
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July 7, 2025
DAR ES SALAAM: BACK home in Dar es Salaam, the sun played its part with a warm and breezy weekend, while in Stockholm (in this late spring) tulips were still showing off and Swedes debated if the sun was ever going to return, something...
High proportion of depression and anxiety in younger patients with COPD: a cross-sectional study in primary care in Sweden.
Physician's Weekly
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July 7, 2025
Therese Öfverholm NVS, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Academic Primary Care Centre, Region Stockholm, Sweden. Mikael Hasselgren School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health,...
Four Observations from Germany’s 2-1 win over Denmark at the Women’s EUROs
Bavarian Football Works
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July 10, 2025
Germany fought back from an early deficit to defeat Denmark 2-1 at the Women’s European Championships on Tuesday. After the result between Poland and Sweden later in the day, the Germans are confirmed to advance — with the final match against...
Plan for electricity bills based on region dropped
BBC
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Plans to set people's electricity bills based on where they live have been dropped by the government. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said in April the government was considering zonal pricing, but on Thursday it said it would reform the current...