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How might its science be affected if the UK were to leave the EU? Science|Business asked some researchers from non-EU countries for their perspectives

Leading research bodies are asking for an urgent meeting to discuss the Scottish government’s announcement of a ban on GM cultivation. The decision has no basis in scientific fact and is anti-science in Scotland, they say

An analysis of journal papers indicates IMI’s research has a high impact, but the partnership’s former head Michel Goldman says bibliometrics do not properly reflect the interests of participants. New metrics are needed to assess interdisciplinary projects

Imperial's Faculty of Engineering held their second annual Bring Your Child to Work Day this week.

Facilities are in place for early stage clinical trials but most are based in universities or hospitals, and commercial scale manufacturing is yet to come on-stream

Oxitec’s technology for combatting dengue fever by releasing sterile mosquitoes into the wild will be applied to other insect-borne diseases by new owner Intrexon

Oxford University spin-out seeks to commercialise new implosion processes in fusion reactors for electricity generation

Board announce that Andrew Blake will serve as first Institute director

EU membership is overwhelmingly positive for our institutes say university heads, as new campaign to protect £1.2B per annum of European research funding gets into gear this week

Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal tells Science|Business why it is important to bring entrepreneurial cash and the principles of open innovation to bear on one of the biggest questions in science: Are we alone?

New crowdfunding effort aims to clean up smog-choked areas

Dutch secret service say Ivan Agafonov was identified after he met a diplomat who was under surveillance in Germany

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.