Press release

The largest and most powerful X-ray laser in world has opened in Hamburg. The machine can generate ultrashort X-ray flashes 27,000 times per second, with a brilliance that is a billion times higher than the best conventional X-ray radiation sources.

With ELIXIR, the European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information, fifteen European countries have established a secure hub-and-node infrastructure in which biological data will be permanently accessible for research.

The Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, was joined by Greg Clark MP and Professor Sir John Bell today (August 30th) at the Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM) - co-located on the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birminghamcampus - to make two major national life sciences investment announcements as part of the launch of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy.

The German government has pledged €51.35 million as part of a €56.5 million funding. Other countries and foundations are donating the balance, to advance the work of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership

Aalto placed at the top of the Shanghai ranking in Marine/Ocean Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Mining and Mineral Engineering and Management research.

KTH researchers have taken a significant step toward enabling optical quantum information processing on a chip. A new method in quantum nano photonics was published today in Nature Communications