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Its imminent sale to Japanese technology giant Softbank is a good time to reflect on some of the reasons chip designer ARM Holdings became a global phenomenon, says Peter Williamson of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School

Scientists will be encouraged to publish findings ahead of peer review, with papers going online just a week after submission. The research charity hopes other funders will follow its lead

UM Cure 2020 is a new European consortium to foster research on metastatic uveal melanoma and identify new treatments for this serious disease.

The design and construction of the satellite have utilised technology and experience from Aalto-1.

A new interdisciplinary research institute in South Africa to fight tuberculosis (TB), HIV and related diseases has been announced on Tuesday, following a merger between two leading research institutions, with UCL as a key academic partner

The new government must negotiate close links to EU R&D programmes, ensure researchers from EU countries can work in the UK and UK nationals can work in the EU - and make good the loss of funding

Eight years after filing its application, Romania becomes the twenty-second member of the particle physics lab

Plans to integrate the innovation agency Innovate UK and the seven UK research councils have drawn criticism from industry and academia. Advocates say the new body will give UK science a stronger voice in Brexit negotiations

The research charity Wellcome Trust is to host a taskforce formed in response to new recommendations on the use of patient data.

The innovation scoreboard, published today, charts a decline in the performance of 17 out of 28 member states. The EU continues to be outshone by its global competitors. Non-EU member Switzerland gets top marks for innovation in Europe

As evidence that UK researchers are being cut out of research consortia as a result of the Brexit vote mounts, a dedicated unit has been set up to collect specific examples of discrimination

Brexit is an opportunity to push for more coordinated defence R&D investment by the remaining 27 member states, Ana Gomes MEP tells Science|Business

While Brexit has put hopes for the unified European patent on hold, a new US pilot exemplifies how a single efficient patenting system can be used to underpin and promote innovation

The sun is a clean and inexhaustible source of energy. There’s just one outstanding problem: the sun doesn’t always shine and its energy is hard to store. For the first time, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the ETH Zurich have unveiled a chemical process that uses the sun’s thermal energy to convert carbon dioxide and water directly into high-energy fuels. This discovery marks a significant step towards the chemical storage of solar energy.

A report by Robert Madelin contains ideas on how to increase risk-taking in universities and reinvigorate policymaking in the EU civil service

European Court of Auditors investigation into 1,000+ loan, guarantee and equity schemes uncovers a poor record of attracting private money

European Commission wants to fund development of new technologies for combatting cyber attacks

KTH is one of six partner universities in a new national graduate school for neutron scattering science, which is a key part of Sweden's emergence as an international hub for this versatile area of research. The director of studies for the new school explains what it means for KTH.