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The Excellent Science pillar aims to increase the EU’s global scientific competitiveness. It supports frontier research projects defined and driven by top researchers themselves through the European Research Council, funds fellowships for experienced researchers, doctoral training networks and exchanges for researchers through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and invests in world-class research infrastructures

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Airports as spaces of dissent and protest: A spatial and historical analysis

Authors: Alexander Araya López

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Alice MATTONI, Benjamin Bowman, Clare Saunders, Katrina Navickas, Pamela Oliver

Published: January 9, 2026
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Investigation of paraffin combustion in a hybrid rocket slab burner

Authors: Riccardo Gelain, Patrick Hendrick

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Kolos Retfalvi, Mathieu Chartray-Pronovost, Rajiv Kumar, Sergio Cassese

Published: January 6, 2026
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Antioxidant properties of nano-formulated carotenoids and natural phenolic compounds against oxidative stress-induced health diseases

Authors: Sotirios Kiokias

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Emine Okumus, Prof. Dr. Neihaya Heikmat Zaki, Shobana C

Published: February 24, 2026
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How community-dwelling older adults use positive coping strategies to manage fear of falling: a qualitative study using walking interviews

Authors: Valeriia Yakushko, Kamila Kolpashnikova, Shital Desai

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Toby Ellmers

Published: October 13, 2026
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Quaternary aminostratigraphies for the eastern North European Plain.

Authors: Ellie Nelson, Dustin White, Lucy Wheeler, Stefan Meng, Marcin Szymanek, Jaqueline Strahl, Michael Hein, Witold P. Alexandrowicz, Brigitte Urban, Samantha Greeves, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke, Tobias Lauer, David Colin Tanner, Kirsty E.H Penkman

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Darrell Kaufman, Ian Candy

Published: June 17, 2026
Open Letter

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Expertise and Consensus in Evaluation

Authors: Jose V. Die

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Rachel Heyard, River Huang

Published: December 17, 2025
Research Article

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Social media and academic performance in international business education: Paradoxical patterns from Thailand

Authors: Roland Zsolt Szabó, Srisongruk Prohmvitak

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Amin Hosseinian-Far, Ana Jimenez-Zarco

Published: December 10, 2025
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NOMEN — A classification of methods used to create odourous compositions with a historical dimension: re-weighing, adapting, reconstructing, transposing, evoking

Authors: Isabelle Chazot, Érika Wicky, Sophie-Valentine Borloz, Chantal Jaquet, Alice Camus, Olivier David

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Barbara Huber, Cecilia Bembibre, Neha Khetrapal, Ran Yue, Will Tullett

Published: September 15, 2026
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OpenHSR: An open, FAIR-compliant dataset for modeling the health star rating system

Authors: Flore N'kam Suguem, Valentin Lafargue

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Giovanni Cangelosi, Mohammad Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan

Published: October 1, 2026
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Climate clubs: an experimental study of Nordhaus’ proposal to mitigate climate change

Authors: Alberto Antonioni, Antonio Cabrales, Angel Sánchez

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: DANIEL BALSALOBRE-LORENTE, Florentine Koppenborg

Published: April 24, 2026
Study Protocol
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Protocols for in situ continuous monitoring of water relations/potential in soil and leaf

Authors: Lei Ding, Marco D'Agostino, Théo Degand, Monica Rothwell, Thomas Dagbert, Valentin Couvreur

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Piyush Jain, Simon Kraatz, Tina Koehler, Yijian Zeng

Published: September 28, 2026
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The use of artificial intelligence in EU criminal justice systems: first insights and emerging trends in an evolving landscape

Authors: Giulia Cascone

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Sahat Maruli T. Situmeang, Sheikh Inam Ul Mansoor

Published: November 26, 2025
Brief Report
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Gaze cues and arrow cues modulate accuracy of recall of verbal items in a working memory task

Authors: Vinoprasath Shivakumar, Ljerka Ostojić, Edward Legg

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Jari Hietanen, Jeanette A. Chacón-Candia, Krzysztof Cipora, Samantha Gregory

Published: February 26, 2026
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Quarry mining or nature conservation, emerging conflicts in Serra de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park (Portugal)

Authors: María Guillermina Diaz, Luis Carreira dos Santos

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Giovanna Antonella Dino, Isiaka Hassan, Mohamed Fredj, Mrutyunjay Padhiary

Published: April 16, 2026
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Multi-modal detection of acute fear of falling in older adults: A proof-of-concept study

Authors: Kamila Kolpashnikova, Valeriia Yakushko, Laurence R. Harris, Shital Desai

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: November 11, 2025
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A Fast-Track Training Program for Living Lab Methodologies: program components, acceptability, and participant perceptions

Authors: Kim Helsen, Vicky Van der Auwera, Femke Drijkoningen, Despoina Petsani, Teemu Santonen, Panagiotis Bamidis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Nele A.J. De Witte

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Francesca TORLONE, Francesco Santarsiero, Juan Pablo Centeno, Phoebe Koundouri, Stephen Gilbert, sonia MASSARI

Published: June 13, 2026
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Overview of the ESCAPE Dark Matter Test Science Project for astronomers

Authors: James Pearson, Hugh Dickinson, Sukanya Sinha, Stephen Serjeant

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Eugene Oks, Felix Kahlhoefer, Helena Garcia Escudero, Martine Lokken

Published: April 9, 2026
Research Article

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The effect of social and non-social prompts on implicit mentalising in the dot perspective task

Authors: Petra Šarić, Ljerka Ostojić, Edward W. Legg

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Vanessa Morris

Published: October 28, 2025
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Temporal uncertainty in rational method: Reassessment of data from the article “Short-term temporal variability of radon in Finnish dwellings and the use of temporal correction factors”

Authors: Andrey Tsapalov

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Joan Rey, Katerina Navratilova Rovenska, MEHMET ERHAN EMİRHAN, Miroslaw Janik

Published: February 10, 2026
Data Note

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A database of qù-tone alternations in Ancient Chinese

Authors: Barbara Meisterernst, Johann-Mattis List

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Christoph HARBSMEIER, Daniel Kadar, Zev Handel

Published: October 22, 2025
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From worker to owner: Moral economy and competing value regimes in Cuban return migration

Authors: Valerio Simoni

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Aleksy Kwilinski, Dr Agnieszka J. Gordon

Published: April 8, 2026
Essay
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Us and artificial intelligence: Questioning agency and the need for critical and humanist perspectives

Authors: Marco Guglielmo, Petra Ahrweiler, Oscar Barberà, Simon Dario Brockschmidt, Nathan Critch, Ana Luisa de Moraes Azenha, Alejandro Fernández Del Río, Crystal A. Ennis, Pedro García Guijarro, Eva Gomís Jaen, Darcy Luke, Blanca Luque Capellas, Michal Malý, Masoumeh Iran Mansouri, Andrea Medrado, Ben O'Loughlin, D'arcy Ritchie, Mar Sánchez Montell, Giulia Sandri, Carla Sentí Navarro, Saori Shibata, Henry Snowball, Andreu Teruel, Bradley Ward

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: David Bailey, Rebecca Scheffauer, Rosalie Waelen

Published: August 21, 2026
Systematic Review
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Rebound effects in circular business models: A review of cases and mitigation strategies

Authors: Ankita Das, Daniel Guzzo, Daniela C. A. Pigosso, Nancy Bocken

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Changhee Kim, Christian Koldewey, Joël Ntsondé, Koen Dittrich, Konstantin Remke, Mariantonietta Ferrante, Teresa Paiva, Vivian Tunn

Published: May 7, 2026
Research Article

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Study of thickness distribution on a robotic rotational moulding system by experiment and simulation

Authors: Hangtian Zhou, Jarne Vanherck, Peter Martin, Elke Deckers

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: António GASPAR-CUNHA, Jian Wang, Marek Szostak

Published: October 15, 2025
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Early prediction of potential hepatotoxic metabolites to aid lead selection in drug discovery

Authors: Linda Chiappalupi, Domingo Gargallo-Viola, Antoni Torrens

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: VIVEK GOHEL

Published: October 7, 2025