On Tuesday the UK became the latest country to jump back on the nuclear energy bandwagon. But 20 years after Chernobyl, how easy is it to turn on the nuclear tap?

Complying with the EU’s labyrinthine new REACH chemicals legislation was always going to be a tortuous process. For those who wait too long, it could be impossible.

Top materials scientist Eicke Weber has been lured back to Germany from the US after 23 years, to take over at the helm of the Fraunhofer’s Institute of Solar Energy.

India's failure to launch a functional communications satellite using a home-grown rocket is likely to spur even more investment in space programmes.

French researchers have developed a cell therapy that could slash the risk of rejection after bone marrow grafts to under 5 per cent, and are looking for first-round funding.

The European Investment Fund has partnered with UK technology commercialisation company IP Group to form a venture capital fund to invest in university spin-outs.

Nanotechnology looks like generating more paper than profits as yet another policy review gets under way.

For the last three years, the French parliament has been struggling with legislation on copyright and associated rights in information society. It has surfaced in the headlines, portrayed as a fight to force Apple to make its iTunes music downloads playable on competing music boxes. But there's more involved.

A key distinction between physical and intellectual property is that the value of the latter is created as much by sharing it as by owning it. How to share it, between creator and enabler, is a particularly acute issue within the academic environment - as indicated by a recent, noteworthy debate on the subject in Sweden.

As the European Commission ponders the single European patent, the European Patent Office is under attack from national patent offices that want some of its functions.