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Panel’s creation next Autumn is aimed at ending a Brussels dispute over who gives scientific advice on controversial issues like GMOs

Karolinska Institutet has received a donation 4 million USD, of approximately 35 million SEK, for the creation of a professorship in innovation and entrepreneurship. The new professorship is financed by the 95-year-old doctor, researcher, innovator and business leader Professor Endre A. Balazs and his wife Dr Janet L. Denlinger.

Teaching collaboration and reform of entrance exams on focus in the new Shanghai College of Design and Innovation.

A new agreement between the United States and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed today will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics, promising to yield new insights into fundamental particles and the nature of matter and our universe.

Experimenting on animals is unreliable and wasteful says one side, while the other says it underlies research breakthroughs. Both agree alternative methods should be advanced

There are great UK-EU science stories buried under all the one-sided anti-Brussels spin and now is the time to tell them, says Mike Galsworthy, researcher turned political activist

The scene is set for intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn, when long-awaited reforms of EU copyright law must address the contentious issue of text and data mining

Animal rights groups demand the European Commission scraps animal testing in research

The establishment of the Chalmers Areas of Advance is a success. “Continue the great work!” is the message from the international committee responsible for evaluating the billion kronor initiative by the government in 2008. As a result, the funding agencies wish to reallocate another SEK 13 million in research grants to Chalmers.

Cambridge computer scientists have established a new gold standard for open research, in order to make scientific results more robust and reliable.

Fast-charging electric car adapted to fit humid weather is unveiled in Singapore

Europe’s €3B Innovation Medicines Initiative faced scrutiny over pharma companies’ contributions to the programme in the European Parliament this week – and passed the test.

The FP7 funded project, TRIMAGE, aims at developing a simultaneous trimodal imaging tool for early diagnosis of schizophrenia and other mental disorders

The EU needs objective science advice when framing its policies. Action is needed to clarify how and by whom this is delivered, says the former EU science chief Anne Glover

An Imperial student has won the first Althea-Imperial prize for her idea of a waterproof concrete additive to make buildings less vulnerable.

Investigating the impact of public policies on unmet medical needs and patient access to treatment

MEPs are unhappy with the EIB pre-empting approval of the investment fund by the European Parliament. Others are concerned about a return to spending on ‘white elephant’ infrastructure projects

By today’s standards for assessing impact, EU research funding agencies would discard Einstein’s theory of relativity

Yonsei University, Korea is opening a new innovation hub in Seoul.