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How can Europe balance its goal of energy security with the need to reduce CO2 emissions? Part of the answer would be fixing the carbon emissions trading system

Aalto University has signed a new agreement with Spain’s ESADE Business School. The two institutions will expand their offering of training, leadership development and support for entrepreneurs and executives dedicated to innovating through design and technology as a means of creating new business opportunities.

The search engine giant will dramatically increase its investment in European start-ups and skills in 2015. Prospects are good, but there must be broader acceptance in Europe that some ventures will fail, says David Drummond, chair of Google Ventures

The UK-led Beagle-2 Mars lander, which hitched a ride on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was lost on Mars since 2003, has been found in images taken by a NASA orbiter at the Red Planet.

More efficient medical treatments could be developed thanks to a new method for triggering the rearrangement of chemical particles.

Accusations fly as the European Commission releases details of the money its €315B investment plan will take out of the EU’s Horizon 2020 kitty. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology faces the deepest cut

While other social media networks for researchers are about showing off publications or keeping tabs on impact metrics, Piirus makes introductions. This is the way to find your perfect partner – for research, says Piirus founder Fiona Colligan

CERN is getting ready to switch on its massive underground collider again. The Higgs boson, the standout discovery of the last few years, is in the bag, so what are physicists looking for now?

The President of Singapore today laid foundation stones to mark the development of two buildings for the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

The MED-EU strategic project aims to raise EU funds for scientific research and innovation. The project is coordinated by the University of Bologna and a few clinical institutes such as the S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, the Rizzoli Institute for Orthopedics and the Institute for Neurologic Sciences of the Bellaria hospital.

Breakthroughs in renewable energy don’t come from Eureka moments in the laboratory, but from long term effort and investment to push nascent technologies to the point of cost efficiency, says Carlos Härtel, GE’s head of R&D in Europe

Fluidic Analytics Limited, a spinout from the University of Cambridge, has raised £1.56 million (US$2.4 million) in a Series A financing led by Cambridge Enterprise and including DFJ Esprit, IQ Capital, Parkwalk Advisors and Amadeus Capital Partners as co-investors.

The Bloodhound car will be a 1,000mph machine that is part spaceship, part jet fighter and part racing car. This is not a big vanity project but an engineering adventure designed to stir a new generation, says Mark Elvin

Science|Business makes some guesses at what research and innovation topics are likely to be among the most discussed in 2015.

Allowing academics to move their pensions from country-to-country when taking up jobs at institutions across the EU has broad support. But there is a swathe of technical and legal detail to sort out and universities need to sign up

A new drug for ovarian cancer, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and AstraZeneca, has become the first of new class of drugs, known as PARP-inhibitors, to be granted approval anywhere in the world. The drug, Lynparza, has been granted Marketing Authorisation from the European Commission.

Imperial has the greatest concentration of high impact research of any major UK university, according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014.

A total of 22 new companies were founded in 2014 by researchers from ETH Zurich. These spin-offs are among the most successful in Switzerland. One of the year's highlights was Covagen, which was acquired for over CHF 200 million. The latest figures also reveal that the university is on the right track with its promotion programmes.

Incessant talk of a North-South R&D divide is not baseless but it’s becoming tired. It is time to try and change things says Carlos Zorrinho, Brussels’ quiet revolutionary