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Better, brighter, faster – that's where photonic lasers are trying to take us. A lay guide to the technology.

A British start-up is betting it has a better way for television networks to watch their viewers watching them.

With licensing and collaboration now the lifeblood of the drug industry, the annual BIO-Europe get-together was focused on partnering. Nuala Moran was there.

On the glut of patenting, BASF's rising research budget, football fever in the Commons, and other insights into R&D management

"Scientific work … must be done for itself, for the beauty of science." Marie Curie, chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934)

New regulations on the registration and testing of chemicals could have some problematic knock-on effects on European R&D – but they could also bring some lucrative work the way of contract research organisations.

Some strange new ways of raising money are starting to emerge - but would-be borrowers and lenders are still making sense of them.

A politician's gaffe highlights the gender gap in science. Political action, not talk, is what's needed to close it.

The pace of forming academic spin-out companies picked up in the US in 2004 after a two-year slump, according to a survey released today.

Reports of incubators' demise were premature

Universities are funding more campus companies. Richard L. Hudson on the rules of a very risky game.

After the initial hype, the long haul through clinical development and the inevitable pitfalls, gene therapy is on the verge of becoming a commercial reality in Europe - ahead of the US.

Not all nanotechnology is hype. Carbon nanotubes are already inside a product near you.

The Cambridge-based company a.gain medical says it has invented the world's first urethral sensor for women – and is looking for further investment.