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The rising tide of drug-resistant infections and dearth of new antibiotics calls for the same kind of urgency and action as the HIV/AIDs epidemic, says Laura Piddock, founder of Antibiotic Action

Dr Andrew Dove from the University of Warwick has been named the Royal Society of Chemistry Gibson-Fawcett Award winner for 2014. The award recognises “original and independent contributions to materials chemistry”.

Study shows little progress in bridging the gap between the world’s networked economies and rest of world; Nordic countries dominate Networked Readiness Index, while emerging markets struggle most in realising digital potential

ATTRACT brings science development to open innovation in products and services in industry, education, research and policy. The project is currently seeking potential partners.

The James Dyson Foundation has donated £8m to create a technology hub at the heart of Cambridge, providing the University of Cambridge’s brightest engineers with some of the world’s most advanced engineering laboratories.

Europe’s universities warn that new restrictions on the use of personal data will undermine important health and medical research

Director of UCL Advances and Director of UCL Enterprise Operations, Timothy Barnes, has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion.

The structure of sodium channels – which play an essential role in the functioning of heart and nerve cells – are different than previously believed. Researchers hope their discovery will lead to improvements in drugs that act on the sodium channel to treat a range of cardiac and pain conditions.

KTH researchers are helping robots learn to cooperate, a difficult but potentially revolutionary challenge.

Georgios Stavropoulos, a physicist in Greece’s Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, is pitching for his frontier deep sea neutrino project to be included under the EU’s new experimental regional funding scheme

Science|Business begins a series of viewpoints on the ethical dimensions of Europe’s biggest R&D programme

King's has been awarded funding as part of a £500 million investment in Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), by EPSRC, to support a new centre in the area of non-equilibrium systems: CANES.

Institutional issues and a lack of system thinking are hampering progress toward resolving Europe’s renewable energy dilemma, says Mark O’Malley, professor of electrical engineering at University College Dublin. More comprehensive and objective analysis would help.

As resistance to traditional antibiotics reaches crisis levels, scientists are poised to forage in hard-to-reach sea trenches for new antimicrobials and novel compounds that could provide the basis of new drugs

A team of researchers from five Swedish universities, led by Karolinska Institutet and the Science for Life Laboratory, have identified a new way of treating cancer. The concept is presented in the journal Nature and is based on inhibiting a specific enzyme called MTH1, which cancer cells, unlike normal cells, require for survival. Without this enzyme, oxidized nucleotides are incorporated into DNA, resulting in lethal DNA double-strand breaks in cancer cells.

Fifty-five of the world's most academically brilliant and socially committed young people from 27 countries have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars and will begin their postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge this October.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson launched MedCity, a major new medical research and translation initiative, at Imperial College London today [Tuesday 8 April].

The two universities signed an agreement to create a joint research laboratory devoted to automation and robotics. The two universities also announced a new joint master’s degree in civil engineering.

The University of Warwick is to lead a new “EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing”.

In response to the latest IPCC report, Mary Ritter, CEO of Climate-KIC, the EU’s public-private partnership, highlights the major efforts that are under way to tackle climate change. Collaboration is the route to addressing this threat, she says