After the latest meeting bears no fruit, UK must decide on launching its own alternative programme or taking the EU to months-long arbitration

Next week, the plan initiated by the Commission to make assessments of research more meaningfully reflect its impact and value will open up to signatories. Then the hard work of translating it to action on the ground will begin

With a new prime minister in power, the UK is making a fresh overture to convince the Commission to let association to the research programme go ahead. UK universities are calling for an end to the ‘toxic uncertainty’

Thirty-five projects covered by the funding will help build infrastructure and assist industry in adapting processes to use this form of energy

Research infrastructures are worried about the rising cost of running large scientific experiments and are looking for help with paying sky-high electricity bills. One lab has seen a 60% increase in its tariff this year

It can provide answers, but science alone will not deliver on sustainable development goals, says Maria Leptin in a reality check on ‘scientific populism’

Financing is part of a financing portfolio worth over €15B to encourage companies to invest in climate change-related technologies and end Europe’s dependence on imports of fossil fuel from Russia

Their Soviet past and proximity to a newly aggressive Russia is motivating companies in the Baltics to grow fast and develop new defence technologies

As elections near, Biden promotes ‘whole-of-government’ effort to cut cancer death rates and strengthen the biopharma and biotech sectors. International partners welcome, up to a point

The EU succeeded in creating a portfolio of vaccines and procuring enough doses to go round, but contracts did not make provisions for disruptions to supplies