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Europe came a step closer to ensuring its future competitiveness last week when member states endorsed a programme of sustainable chemistry.

A pay-per-vote Web site offers a new way to fund science, one dollar at a time.

Male scientists are more likely to file patents on their research than their female colleagues.

A driving force in the growing demand for MEMS could be pressure to make cars safer.

It may be that the similarity between the name of a US memory chip supplier, Rambus, and that of a rebel and indomitable hero, Rambo, is purely coincidental. Yet, looking at the story of Rambus, it is difficult to avoid comparisons.

A reminder that it isn't just nanotechnology that can make money for businesses wanting to work on a small scale.

Weighing conflicting views of the outlook for European biotechnology was the object of a conference 13 June at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

Public procurement should be used to stimulate innovation using a US model that has proved itself over 25 years, says a report from the University of Cambridge, UK.