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An innovative new Consortium will act as a ‘match-making’ service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers in Cambridge with the aim of developing and studying precision medicines for some of the most globally devastating diseases.

Testers should maintain car ‘black boxes’, prepare for hackers, and ensure full ability to manually take over controls.

Fresh data from the European Commission shows there is an increase in new female graduates. But a lack of women in leadership roles is a continuing problem, says Curt Rice, who leads Norway's committee on gender balance in research

Nature Photonics has published a study by group of researchers from Rome's Sapienza University, in collaboration with the Radboud University of Nijmegen and the Politecnico di Milano. The research shows that in the future it will be possible to store data at speeds ten thousand times higher than those achievable with our current technology.

The University of Luxembourg and the Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER (formerly CEPS/Instead) are to create and fund four joint professorships.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn to investigate why male academics outnumber females in senior higher education posts in Ireland

Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas wants an initiative to tackle science misconduct to be in place by the end of the year. It is an issue Europe is divided on, says Simon Godecharle, researcher and ethicist at KU Leuven

Work to develop a new, adaptive and future-proof mobile network architecture for 5G has now started after a consortium composed of 13 partners, including King’s College London, and other leading industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and academic institutions joined forces earlier in the year.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling of electronics using graphene-based film. The film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper.

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks.

With matchmaking assistance from an EU programme, car manufacturing is about to be revived, 30 years after the last plant in the country closed

The first Innovation Radar Report reviews the innovation potential of ICT projects funded under 7th Framework Programme and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, to demonstrate the economic impact of EU grant funding

With open access talks failing to break new ground, the Netherlands’ university association calls for researchers to consider giving up their posts with Elsevier journals

Ambarella is buying the Italian self-driving vehicle lab developed with the help of European Research Council funding

Against the dim economic background there are rays of light, with a number of start-ups making a go of it

Tests have shown that a new cancer drug, FY26, is 49 times more potent than the clinically used treatment Cisplatin.

Professor Mika Järvinen with his team was honored for innovation that converts a steel-manufacturing by-product into Precipitated calcium carbonate.

Researchers at three top UK universities are developing new ways to simultaneously power and communicate with robots and other digitally connected devices – commonly known as the Internet of Things.

Trio will select candidates for EU’s new Scientific Advisory Mechanism

Support mechanisms for technology transfer and collaborations are frustrating and confusing. As a result the UK is not reaping the full potential of connecting companies with university research