Science|Business Reporting

China and the United Kingdom have launched a scheme to fund proof-of-concept projects with strong commercial potential.

Researchers in Barcelona captured the computational power of Sony’s Playstation 3 to create a distributed supercomputer for systems biology.

The European Science Foundation is joining forces with knowledge-based organisations to preserve access to scientific information in computer formats that are fast becoming obsolete.

The University of Dortmund is to change its name to Technische Universität Dortmund to highlight its technical profile in research, teaching and technology transfer.