Wind turbines can remain productive for up to 25 years, making wind farms a good long-term choice for energy investors, according to new research.

Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre held a special event this week to mark its recent award of AHSC status.

Max Ortiz Catalan has developed a new method for the treatment of phantom limb pain (PLP) after an amputation. The method is based on a unique combination of several technologies, and has been initially tested on a patient who has suffered from severe phantom limb pain for 48 years. A case study shows a drastic reduction of pain.

No matter what the business idea may be, start-up founders all face the same challenge: the lack of a business network. ETH Zurich has now started a Founders Community to foster more interaction between the 350 existing ETH spin-offs.

The prototype of the unmanned quadcopter, equipped with special sensors designed to locate people caught in avalanches, has been successfully tested a few days ago in the Alps. The drone was developed within the SHERPA project, funded by the European Commission

Teenage boys with symptoms of depression and raised levels of the stress hormone cortisol are up to 14 times more likely to develop major depression than those without these traits, Cambridge researchers have found.

The gathering fostered links that may lead to future collaboration arrangements

A team of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology has found that kidney cancer cells have a quite different metabolism than other types of malignancies. The findings pave the way for new methods of diagnosing kidney cancer at an early stage, a feat that had eluded researchers earlier, and thereby fresh approaches to treatment.

Aalto University has been selected to coordinate the Rio+20 Implementation in the Nordic Higher Education Institutes project, which aims to improve the implementation of and policy instruments related to sustainable development in Nordic Higher Education Institutes. Another aim is to encourage higher education institutes to adopt the principles of sustainability.

One of the world's leading medical universities, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, now offers online MOOCs (massive open online courses). This gives hundreds of thousands of students worldwide access to the university's leading edge expertise.