Lead candidate for the EU’s top job pledges to back a large-scale cancer research programme and introduce a ‘digital fair tax’ on internet companies to help workers displaced by automation
A new detector using photonics to identify E. coli bacteria from a tiny drop of blood, and produce a while-you-wait diagnosis in less than thirty minutes is making a bold bid to reduce the mortality rate from sepsis by more than 70%.
Some scientists want to call the whole thing off, while a minority want to leave: emotions are running high in universities ahead of UK’s strange EU election next month
