As it passes its first birthday, a checklist of progress to date in the formation of the Innovation Union, a key element of the Europe 2020 strategy for jobs and growth, was published by the Commission
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the formation of Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), to support collaboration among researchers and spur scientific discovery
An interface developed at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne already allows users to manoeuvre wheelchairs by thought transference. Now this will be applied to cars
The advent of personalised medicine means cancer survival over the long term could be improved by running smaller, faster trials with less stringent evidence criteria, the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Sweden heard this week
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing says it is possible to automatically scan for gems in Chinese language journals and patents
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