‘Everyone who needs the vaccine will have access to it,’ Bill Gates tells Gavi fundraiser, as AstraZeneca signs $750M agreement

New spending splurge comes as part of €130B recovery aid that goes far beyond other eurozone country packages

‘A flood’ of research into new surface coatings that repel the virus are among ideas for making buildings pandemic-proof

A Swedish start-up has a ‘virus certification app’ ready to launch but it faces practical and ethical hurdles. ‘The government is not in our supporter club on this’, says Coronafree’s science adviser

‘When science and politics meet, it can become quite crunchy,’ director general Stephen Quest tells Science|Business

Analysis warns of twin hit of COVID-19 and Brexit to Scotland’s 19 universities, as EU-UK trade talks enter crunch stage

European Commission wants to double the InvestEU loan programme to €75 billion, but research won’t get any more money