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A new report throws light on the damaging outcomes when scientists ignore gender in their research

German physicist Christiane Heinicke is spending one year as a pretend-astronaut in a Mars simulation. She talks to Science|Business about her motivation for helping to prepare humans mentally for an historic journey to the red planet

Joint letter in August reveals European Institute of Innovation and Technology chiefs disagree with proposed changes to how their innovation clusters would operate. EIT says it's 'finalising the agreements'

The annual QS league table shows Asian institutes are making big gains. Meanwhile, Reuters launches its inaugural rankings, where universities with particular emphasis on science and technology score high

The latest Business Incubation Centre of CERN technologies (BIC) agreement was signed today in conjunction with the Helsinki Institute of Physics (link is external) and Tampere University of Technology

Patients to benefit from new £3M Blood and Transplant Research Unit University of Warwick research used to develop world-leading unit

The University of Basel, the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich will together launch a new course of study in medicine. Participants would study at ETH Zurich for their bachelor’s degrees and go on to complete a master’s degree at one of the partner universities

His robot can build ‘children’ without human command, but Luzius Brodbeck says it demonstrates that creating truly sophisticated robots is so difficult there is no need to worry about them taking over the world

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre will cooperate with the university to promote evidence-based policymaking

Russian physicist Vladimir Falko to steer R&D strategy at €85M centre

Imperial's President is leading a delegation to China to promote education, research and innovation ties.

University of Warwick's WMG, will lead a £14 million consortium to create a new automotive battery pack manufacturing research centre.

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new way to study nanoparticles one at a time, and have discovered that individual particles that may seem identical in fact can have very different properties. The results, which may prove to be important when developing new materials or applications such as hydrogen sensors for fuel cell cars, have been published in Nature Materials.

The aim of the project is to develop an instrument combining magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG).

One year on, the new board overseeing the €1B project is yet to present revised strategic goals

All nations have a right to explore space but to date it’s been a privilege for rich countries. Now, satellites are becoming so cheap they are within the reach of start-ups and university students

Head of LERU rails against ‘tiresome and recurrent attempts’ to cut the Horizon 2020 research budget