Éanna Kelly

Freeing research funder from European Commission oversight will cut red tape, UK science academy says. The idea has some broader support among scientists

“Any VC firm will tell you – meeting people is more important than the ideas,” says EU Research Commissioner

Bernard Bigot, director-general of the world's biggest nuclear fusion project, tells Science|Business the perpetually out-of-reach energy source is finally in sight – so long as Trump does not scale back US involvement

With its future in Budapest remaining uncertain, the embattled university is making back-up plans

As natural stocks become depleted and overfished, the EU is looking to develop new, sustainable, forms of mariculture. The idea is beginning to attract entrepreneurs

Brussels makes strongest statement yet that it wants the UK in EU research programmes after Brexit, but says there can be no half in, half out arrangement on trade and EU agencies

Anja Karliczek has no background in research, though some welcome her outsider perspective. She will preside over a €2B increase in science spending over the next few years

Open letter calls for European Commission to trust outside investors with picking the best companies to fund

China continues innovation surge, with technology firm Huawei rising to the top. But there has was no progress with Europe’s unitary patent

Setting its objectives for the second stage of negotiations, the UK has confirmed it wants to be part of – and pay into - future Framework programmes and to be a member of EU agencies including EMA