Science|Business Reporting

Nine countries have signed up to construct the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, a particle accelerator to be located at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany.

The German Research Foundation has opened a new era in collaboration between science and industry, signing a cooperation agreement with software manufacturer SAP.

A recipient of one of the European Research Council’s first grants, Konstantin Novoselov, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on graphene.

The Finnish research institution VTT has teamed up with chemicals company Kemira to set up the Centre of Water Efficiency Excellence in São Paulo.

Revolymer Ltd launched its non-stick and biodegradable chewing gum in the US this week, five years after being spun out of Bristol University.