Who should profit from cutting-edge academic research: the scientists or the institution that funds them? Both, in a new biotech company launched by one of Sweden’s leading researchers.

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

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.