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A confluence of drought and rapidly growing demand is spurring the development of water technologies.

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.

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

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.

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

A survey of 449 European businesses shows that they plan to increase their spending on R&D by 5% a year for the next three years.

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.

SMEs are the target for a new "portal" on the European Nanotechnology Gateway, nanoforum.org

Asian R&D is hot. Witness our summertime sampling of news tidbits – some important, some just bizarre.

In a landmark deal for Asia, the first takeover of European biotech firms by a counterpart in Singapore has been finalised.

The US Department of Energy plans to put $1.4 million for studies on the economic feasibility of producing hydrogen at nuclear plants.

Not quite the newest technology on the block, but a new Chinese factory is ramping up productuion of tiny particles.

Google has so many irons in the fire that it is not always easy to keep track of its projects. This is definitely not the case of the Google Library project, which proposes to scan the content of great libraries of the world and make them accessible to on-line search.