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A league table of the 25 world-leading government research bodies lists nine from Europe, with France’s CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) and Germany’s Fraunhofer Society topping the list

Largest round by any Karolinska spin-out, and biggest in ten years for a private company in Sweden

The EU Research Commissioner may have correctly identified the reasons for Europe’s failure to commercialise its science, but setting up a new agency that separates innovation from research is not the answer, says Estonian MEP Kaja Kallas

With the in-out referendum taking place on June 23, Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas joins the chorus of the scientific establishment campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU

Registrations for new inventions at the European Patent Office are up for the sixth consecutive year. Dutch giant Philips reclaims top spot from Korea’s Samsung

Italian research minister Stefania Giannini responds to bubbling anger among researchers over low level of public research funding

The University of Warwick is to receive almost £5 million funding to support the next generation of engineering, technology & science researchers

The development of crash test dummies has played a vital role in terms of car safety. Two researchers into traffic safety are now being rewarded for their crucial work in the field of biomechanical research. The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research has awarded its 2015 scholarship of SEK 250,000 to Astrid Linder and Mats Svensson

A new study find that every pound invested in medical research over the last 30 years generated an equivalent investment from the pharma industry

Merger could hamper innovation and discriminate against rival satellite manufacturers, says competition commissioner

Dutch EU presidency has vowed to bring countries together on open access, but a new study reveals there is a long way to go in making journals subscription-free

As the volume of information soars, it is no longer enough to search for papers - researchers need computers to read and analyse them too, says Jon Hill, computational biologist at Boehringer Ingelheim

The Horizon 2020 FORCE project aims to address a fundamental need in planning and monitoring of cancer treatment by measuring the forces active in cancer.

From outright farce while on field work, to rejected grant applications, missing the primary endpoint in a clinical trial and the prototype that did not fly – the mishaps, the unexpected and the unwanted results - should be a source of learning

Teaching schoolchildren the skills to turn creative ideas into entrepreneurial action is on the rise, with the most comprehensive entrepreneurship education in place in Nordic countries and Estonia. However, the subject is not entrenched in the curriculum

Imec and iMinds are to join forces under the Imec name to create a single centre for digital and nanotechnology research

Diabetes researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a novel technique that makes it possible to monitor insulin resistance in a non-invasive manner over time in mice. The new method, presented in the journal Scientific Reports, can be used to assess insulin resistance during progression and intervention of metabolic diseases.

The aim of the project is to build pilot applications in cooperation with companies.

An Imperial engineer talks about the strides being made in the field of synthetic biology, following a ministerial visit to the College.