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Ban will not extend to scientists, who may still use cloning technology as a research tool

The sinking of Nokia prompted the innovation and technology agency Tekes to move its chips onto video-gaming. The sector now accounts for 10% of the country’s IT output

His robot can build ‘children’ without human command, but Luzius Brodbeck says it demonstrates that creating truly sophisticated robots is so difficult there is no need to worry about them taking over the world

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre will cooperate with the university to promote evidence-based policymaking

Europe’s sat-nav project picks up pace, with the third and fourth launches of the year

Russian physicist Vladimir Falko to steer R&D strategy at €85M centre

Competition regulator gives conditional go-ahead on multi-billion acquisition after year-long negotiations

A new report shows 42 companies raised almost €23M through crowdfunding in Europe in the past five years. Founders say it is a good means of raising quick cash, but not a replacement for angels or VCs

Imperial's President is leading a delegation to China to promote education, research and innovation ties.

University of Warwick's WMG, will lead a £14 million consortium to create a new automotive battery pack manufacturing research centre.

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new way to study nanoparticles one at a time, and have discovered that individual particles that may seem identical in fact can have very different properties. The results, which may prove to be important when developing new materials or applications such as hydrogen sensors for fuel cell cars, have been published in Nature Materials.

SciCom – Making Sense of Science and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences have decided to jointly facilitate 12 international science journalists from 12 countries to attend WSF 2015

The aim of the project is to develop an instrument combining magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG).

One year on, the new board overseeing the €1B project is yet to present revised strategic goals

Research bodies say they will continue to fund the controversial technique but call for a debate to discuss potential applications

All nations have a right to explore space but to date it’s been a privilege for rich countries. Now, satellites are becoming so cheap they are within the reach of start-ups and university students

Political leaders of Romania, Latvia and Bulgaria, the poor performers in Europe’s innovation stakes, have all made commitments to support research and innovation, but progress has been poor

Despite seeing her text on copyright reform watered down in a European Parliament vote in June, MEP Julia Reda tells Science|Business the case for data mining of published research is too strong for the EU to ignore

Head of LERU rails against ‘tiresome and recurrent attempts’ to cut the Horizon 2020 research budget

Internet giant’s latest foray into medical research will see it develop more accurate ways to track blood sugar levels