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In the tenth edition of the Index, China becomes the first-ever middle income economy to be ranked in the top 25

The EU set out the groundwork for a hugely ambitious plan to interconnect Europe’s science outputs. Now the squabbling over how to fund and who to run the cloud begins

Europe’s researchers should take a principled stand against the new military R&D programme. The EU was created to preserve peace; it will not be peaceful anymore, says Dave Webb, of the UK Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

European Research Council grant helps electrify a historic, pedal-less vehicle

The University of Luxembourg intends to appoint a new President. This person will be committed to its mission, an accomplished strategic thinker and communicator, and an infectious optimist about the future of the University.

Aalto University’s test network gives companies the opportunity to develop new solutions.

The Conservative party is defending a 9,582 majority in Oxford West and Abingdon, a constituency where 62% backed Remain in the referendum. Polls indicate Brexit and its consequences for science are a concern for voters in the city

The founders of the Diabeter clinics ditched secure jobs to embrace a new model of specialist care. Ten years on, they have the best paediatric glucose control outcomes and lower costs than most other providers

For patients who undergo complex abdominal operations in the US, poor transitions from the hospital to home contribute to hospital readmission rates ranging from 13 to 30 percent

EU research chiefs flag the multiple challenges ahead for Framework Programme 9

New analysis finds the extremely competitive research programme is rejecting more and more great proposals. The success rate is down from 18.5% in FP7 to a lowly 11.6% now

Romanian government drops foreign evaluators from its national funding schemes and cuts science funding as the EU gears up for the next research framework programme

The Hungarian government and New York governor Andrew Cuomo to start talks that may end threat that a new higher education law would force CEU to close its Budapest campus

A ranking of the world’s clusters on the basis of patent filings puts Tokyo-Yokohama in Japan first by a large margin. The top-ranked in Europe is Paris in 10th place