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The world’s most powerful radio telescope will collect more information each day than the entire internet. Major advances in computing are required to handle this data, but it can be done, says Bernie Fanaroff, strategic advisor for the SKA

Amid condemnations from the US and falling national spending, a fresh initiative to maintain Europe's defence clout is vital, says Nick Witney of the European Council on Foreign Relations and adviser to the European Commission on defence research

Hack leaves EurekAlert! with almost a fortnight of disruption

Robots are a threat to future employment and incomes, and their owners should pay social security taxes to protect pensions, say MEPs. But manufacturers claim this would impede a promising new field

UCL’s three biomedical research centres (BRCs) have won more than £167 million in funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to further world-leading biomedical research conducted with partner hospitals

ETH Zurich was awarded the contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the ESA Business Incubation Centre Switzerland. The initiative was launched by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. It supports selected young start-ups with a connection to space technologies.

EU research programme could recover some of the €2.2B lost last year to European Fund for Strategic Investments

Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker presents timetable for an EU move into defence-related research and announces a top-up – from €315B to €500B - for the EU Fund for Strategic Investments

EU Commission presents its plan to ease copyright laws, but the limited scope leaves some unhappy

Time is running out to register for the 2nd UNI-SET Energy Clustering Event (ECEE)

New report urges government to give firm backing to beleaguered technology which it says could slash the cost of meeting CO2 reduction targets

Science|Business-led consortium highlights latest research into diet and nutrition

Finger is pointed at former vice chancellors and at a bunker mentality, which meant warnings about stem cell scientist’s competence and scientific rigour went unheeded for too long

Canatu Oy manufactures flexible and formable carbon nanomaterial films and touch sensors targeted for touch displays.

A group of researchers at Chalmers University, Department of Physics, has discovered a completely new way of using lasers to accelerate ion beams. In time, the new technique could possibly give more people access to advanced cancer treatment. The results were recently published in the high impact journal Physical Review Letters.

Over the past few weeks, serious doubt has emerged regarding figures featuring in several Molecular Biology publications.

Japanese government memo calls for an end to the uncertainty and sets out requirements of Japanese companies if they are to remain invested in the UK. The demands include the UK continuing to have access to EU R&D funds

Leaked papers reveal data analytics start-ups would not benefit from new text and mining rules, however

Effort aims to increase applications from countries whose researchers do not traditionally win much funding from the basic research funder