Éanna Kelly

Sablono, Technical University of Berlin

Motion-S, University of Luxembourg

Network Polygraph, UPC-BarcelonaTech

CAILabs, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

The chemistry prize is awarded for research that uncovered how cells fix DNA damage; physics for demonstrating neutrinos have mass, and the medicine prize for the discovery of drugs against parasitic diseases

The Science4Refugees initiative aims to help refugee researchers find jobs and training in research institutes

With the EU’s highest court striking down the 15-year old agreement that allowed companies to store the personal data of Europeans in the US, new investment is poised to flow into data centres here

With a government spending review looming, the research lobby is out to make the case for protecting the R&D budget. Here, Hayaatun Sillem of the Royal Academy of Engineering argues an increase in public R&D will pull in more private investment

The new money will fund basic research that would not attract grants from other sources

Draft work plans for 2016 and 2017 are out, with ambitions to replace animal testing, resist the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance and deliver faster internet speeds