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A new research lab brings together a chemicals giant and academics to accelerate the development of organic electronics.

A pay-per-vote Web site offers a new way to fund science, one dollar at a time.

Who should profit from cutting-edge academic research: the scientists or the institution that funds them? Both, in a new biotech company launched by one of Sweden’s leading researchers.

A confluence of drought and rapidly growing demand is spurring the development of water technologies.

Public procurement should be used to stimulate innovation using a US model that has proved itself over 25 years, says a report from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Weighing conflicting views of the outlook for European biotechnology was the object of a conference 13 June at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

Asian R&D is hot. Witness our summertime sampling of news tidbits – some important, some just bizarre.

Not quite the newest technology on the block, but a new Chinese factory is ramping up productuion of tiny particles.

Google has so many irons in the fire that it is not always easy to keep track of its projects. This is definitely not the case of the Google Library project, which proposes to scan the content of great libraries of the world and make them accessible to on-line search.

Is the UK really neglecting a clean source of energy? Before throwing money into fuel cells, potential investors might like to ask where the energy comes from.