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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.

Director Leon Sandler talks about how MIT’s Deshpande Center is attracting a combination of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and managers to jump start new ideas in science and technology.

Efforts to stem Europe’s scientific brain drain could be undermined by pay, as purchasing power dips below India and the EU–US gap widens further.