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The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, killed tens of thousands of people and left millions homeless. About 20,000 deaths -- nearly 30 percent of the total -- resulted not from the ground shaking itself but from the landslides that it triggered.

Plants traits introduced by Crispr gene editing will be subject to the same lengthy regulatory process as 1980s-style genetically modified organisms containing genes from other species, Europe’s highest court rules

New paper explores potential business models for the European Open Science Cloud

Call for more rigorous detail in the proposal looks likely to frustrate the Commission’s push for accelerated approval of the €94B research programme

Call them what you will: change makers, thought leaders, people who get stuff done. This is the Science|Business guide to those with the most influence over the size and shape of the EU’s next research programme

At the Euroscience Open Forum conference, a Bulgarian medical start-up demonstrates the potential - and the challenges - of getting health systems to focus on preventing disease, rather than responding when it strikes

Robert-Jan Smits, former EU research chief, is working on a controversial plan that could erode publishers’ control over science
 

The UK decision to leave the EU cuts at science’s core ethos of openness. As exit negotiations lurch along, researchers from across Europe are yet to spot a bright side to losing such an important science partner

While the country has a policy of military neutrality, the changing nature of threats, and Brexit, have shifted attitudes, Mark Ferguson says

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon urges researchers to press their governments for a bigger EU research budget