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Tekes will enhance the use of research as a source for innovations from the beginning of next year by modernising its research funding.

Two young plasma physicists at Chalmers University of Technology have now taken us one step closer to a functional fusion reactor

The Search Committee emphasised in particular the academic leadership experience, commitment to multidisciplinarity and student focus.

ESA gives the green light to build PLATO space telescope

Researchers tell MEPs that audit culture, reimbursement system, and evaluation criteria for eastern countries should be reformed

This year’s EU innovation scoreboard shows big differences between member states remain

A comprehensive database of 900 European research infrastructures will allow scientists to access resources, services and facilities of which they may previously have been unaware

Small companies with limited resources have much to gain from open innovation. But, says Wim Vanhaverbeke, a lack of suitable tools leaves SMEs struggling to organise and manage collaborations. They need support from local networks

ETH researcher propose a novel design for modular multi-panel systems that can be used in shelf systems and mobile radar reflectors

Horizon 2020’s system of rigid calls and heavy auditing discourages high-risk, high-impact projects, says Ángeles Rodriguez-Peña, as she bows out as head of COST

Higher health care expenditure was associated with lower amenable mortality (that is, rates of the deaths that are potentially preventable with available treatments) in seventeen European countries, according to a new study

A study by researchers at the universities of Plymouth and Exeter found that older people are not being referred for mental health support nearly as frequently as their younger counterparts, despite the fact that they achieve better outcomes when they are referred

A randomised clinical trial of 766 patients has shown that a simple intervention - a web-based tool that enables patients to report their symptoms in real time, triggering alerts to clinicians -can have major benefits, including longer survival

Patients who receive the standard surgical treatment for melanoma that has spread to one or more key lymph nodes do not live longer, according to a major new study

Low-income Hispanics with Type II diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in their blood sugar levels equivalent to those resulting from some glucose-lowering medications, researchers at the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute reported

For people with headache, seeing the neurologist by video for treatment may be as effective as an in-person visit, according to a Norwegian study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology

The University of Tampere and Tampere University Heart Hospital are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to recognise serious difficult to predict complications as early as possible in the home care of patients following a heart attack

The need to adopt a more value-based approach to healthcare is pressing, but some question if it is right to map the patient-centric model proposed by Harvard economist Michael Porter onto Europe’s universal health systems

With the number of cancer cases on the rise, stretched healthcare systems have to support more and more patients with troublesome symptoms and the side effects of treatment. Finnish start-up Noona has developed a mobile app to support self-management