Éanna Kelly

‘Everyone who needs the vaccine will have access to it,’ Bill Gates tells Gavi fundraiser, as AstraZeneca signs $750M agreement

New spending splurge comes as part of €130B recovery aid that goes far beyond other eurozone country packages

‘A flood’ of research into new surface coatings that repel the virus are among ideas for making buildings pandemic-proof

A Swedish start-up has a ‘virus certification app’ ready to launch but it faces practical and ethical hurdles. ‘The government is not in our supporter club on this’, says Coronafree’s science adviser

Analysis warns of twin hit of COVID-19 and Brexit to Scotland’s 19 universities, as EU-UK trade talks enter crunch stage

G7 science ministers pledge to launch ‘Global AI Partnership’, in a step to develop a global approach to handling the new technology

The European Commission wants to increase spending on health more than 20-fold and to take a larger role in healthcare policy

Commission wants to stretch its limited legal powers in health, while ambition for defence spending is dropped, in revised long-term budget

Plan to infuse recovery money into green, digital and other research initiatives faces challenge from EU fiscal hardliners

With the EU’s revised budget proposal due on Wednesday, new European Defence Agency head Jiří Šedivý says the best response to shrinking national budgets for defence research is to engage in more cost-effective collaborations at EU level