Press release

EBAN, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and Early Stage Market Players, and ESA, the European Space Agency, have announced to have entered into a wide-ranging agreement to help start-up entrepreneurs, active in space related activities professionalize their businesses and value propositions, all the while encouraging and inspiring private and public investors to see space related businesses as a most attractive investment opportunity and asset class.

More than 150 years ago, William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, discovered the magnetoresistive effect. Today, this finding enables sensors to measure the rotational speed of a car wheel, and is also used in compass navigation and robot control systems. ETH material scientists have now found a new kind of magnetoresistance that promises further insight into basic research and could one day be used for practical applications.

23 Aalto researchers receive Academy Project funding for research in natural sciences and engineering

The Royal Society has announced a fellowship grants, aimed at strengthening links between academia and industry, to Dr Nathan Griffiths from the University of Warwick’s Department of Computer Science.

His five-year period as dean starts on 1 August 2015.

The agreement will foster collaboration between ESADE students and BSC-CNS researchers with the aim of exploring ways to bring scientific research projects to the market

Alex Huang, a visiting professor at Aalto, develops technologies that turn energy buyers into producers and distributors.

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome – the suite of molecules attached to our DNA that switch our genes on and off – is comprehensively erased in early primordial germ cells prior to the generation of egg and sperm.

Researchers in 10 countries have begun a major new project studying the link between socioeconomic status and healthy ageing.

Nickel Institute has joined with 48 other industry organisations to present a joint position paper with recommendations for better regulation in chemicals management