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New Zealand's chief science adviser Peter Gluckman says the demand for expert advice keeps on growing, despite an apparent dismissal of evidence in politics today

Climate Commissioner says the giant ITER project has made important managerial ‘turnarounds’, after the European Parliament refused to sign off the 2015 accounts earlier this year

Leak shows Brussels officials preparing new ideas to turn ‘acorns into mighty oaks’ and ease the pathway to growth for start-ups

Twelve-person advisory panel will make recommendations on how the new body should function

New pact by major companies including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Sanofi, AstraZeneca and Novartis follows vow by global leaders for greater effort against superbugs

The European Commission is hoping a new public-private fund of funds can bolster venture capital markets and funnel money to start-ups, while providing competition to the dominant European Investment Fund

BMC Psychology will hide study outcomes from reviewers to try root out the scourge of unpublished negative results

The world’s most powerful radio telescope will collect more information each day than the entire internet. Major advances in computing are required to handle this data, but it can be done, says Bernie Fanaroff, strategic advisor for the SKA

Amid condemnations from the US and falling national spending, a fresh initiative to maintain Europe's defence clout is vital, says Nick Witney of the European Council on Foreign Relations and adviser to the European Commission on defence research

Hack leaves EurekAlert! with almost a fortnight of disruption

Robots are a threat to future employment and incomes, and their owners should pay social security taxes to protect pensions, say MEPs. But manufacturers claim this would impede a promising new field

EU research programme could recover some of the €2.2B lost last year to European Fund for Strategic Investments

Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker presents timetable for an EU move into defence-related research and announces a top-up – from €315B to €500B - for the EU Fund for Strategic Investments

EU Commission presents its plan to ease copyright laws, but the limited scope leaves some unhappy

New report urges government to give firm backing to beleaguered technology which it says could slash the cost of meeting CO2 reduction targets