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In blocking the Citizen’s Initiative calling for an end to funding, the Commission has renewed its support for embryonic stem cell funding

Rather than being fixated on out-ranking the rankings, the aim should be to get the EU’s new university league table to work in and for Europe, says Ellen Hazelkorn, Director of Ireland’s Higher Education Policy Research Unit

The €200 million AXA Research Fund backs fundamental science linked to health, environmental and socio-economic risks

The voting pattern of Eurosceptic MEPs reveals that radical parties rarely agree on research, technology and innovation policies, as a Science|Business analysis shows

Research and innovation is low on the agenda for MEPs elected to represent radical parties – if it features at all. With the EU’s new legislature facing an array of science-related policy, will this disinterest matter?

Familiar faces will return, while others, including the current chair of the ITRE committee, wave their handkerchiefs to Brussels

Current methods for treating salt water to make it drinkable are energy-intensive, require harsh chemicals and produce waste – but new technologies that reduce the environmental impact of desalination are in the pipeline.

The new EU-sponsored university league table launched on the 13 May, puts emphasis in unusual places and looks to be drawing conclusions based on low samples, says Per-Anders Östling

The ‘radical’ parties gain ground in Euro elections – but their impact depends on how well they organise themselves in Brussels

The term innovation ecosystem is more than a convenient description. The means by which ecosystems are formed and developed provide a practical model for reshaping Europe’s innovation processes, says Didier Schmitt

While it has a high reputation for the quality of its basic medical research, Poland lacks the means to translate this into the clinic. International collaboration is needed to help build this infrastructure

With the changing of the guard in Brussels imminent, Europe’s manufacturing industries are calling for serious thinking on energy in the next half decade

Science|Business pores over the contents of the main party groupings’ short manifestos, finding common goals and little appetite for controversy

Alternative system eschews traditional rankings, allowing students to select their own personal top list based on their study interests

The rising tide of drug-resistant infections and dearth of new antibiotics calls for the same kind of urgency and action as the HIV/AIDs epidemic, says Laura Piddock, founder of Antibiotic Action