With the in-out referendum taking place on June 23, Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas joins the chorus of the scientific establishment campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU
Registrations for new inventions at the European Patent Office are up for the sixth consecutive year. Dutch giant Philips reclaims top spot from Korea’s Samsung
Dutch EU presidency has vowed to bring countries together on open access, but a new study reveals there is a long way to go in making journals subscription-free
As the volume of information soars, it is no longer enough to search for papers - researchers need computers to read and analyse them too, says Jon Hill, computational biologist at Boehringer Ingelheim
From outright farce while on field work, to rejected grant applications, missing the primary endpoint in a clinical trial and the prototype that did not fly – the mishaps, the unexpected and the unwanted results - should be a source of learning
Teaching schoolchildren the skills to turn creative ideas into entrepreneurial action is on the rise, with the most comprehensive entrepreneurship education in place in Nordic countries and Estonia. However, the subject is not entrenched in the curriculum
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