Scientists ponder travelling to the stars at launch of EU conference

Two astronauts were on hand to help launch the biggest EU science conference in the European Parliament involving more than 100 countries over five days.

Scientists aim to connect up research as never before, thanks to new technologies that are creating a giant database of knowledge.

The second man to walk on the moon, former Nasa astronaut Buzz Aldrin, summed up the approach — “the only limit to what we can achieve lies in the limits of our imagination”.