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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.

Call goes out for car manufacturers and telecommunications companies to join forces in race to be first in the commercial rollout of connected and automated driving technologies

Education Commissioner Navracsics sets up expert panel ‘to improve the EIT’ in advance of a special performance audit from the EU’s accounting watchdog

EU Digital Commissioner Gunther Oettinger signs agreement with Brazil’s Minister of Communications André Figueiredo on next-generation 5G wireless development

Digital single market chief wants member states to shape online public services for smartphone delivery

5G wireless communications will be the lifeblood of all major industries in less than five years, but the EU needs to fill in gaps in legislation and standards to prepare for pan-European deployment. A plan for 5G roll-out will be published by the end of 2016

Scientists at ETH Zurich and an ETH spin-off have developed a novel polymer for coating materials, in order to prevent biofilms from forming on their surfaces. Thanks to the technological platform developed, it is now possible to coat durably a variety of different materials using the same polymeric molecule. Such coatings are of relevance for medical applications, among others.

Promoting an innovation-driven society by combining knowledge from different disciplines.

European Commission is to launch a public consultation on the successor to Horizon 2020 in the autumn, Robert-Jan Smits, director-general for research and innovation, tells the Science|Business annual conference. This will be the EU’s ninth R&D programme

Progressing from start-up to profit is hard and funding shortfalls can push enterprises under. Europe’s banks and VCs should take a more ‘scientific’ approach to funding fledgling companies

Three winners will be chosen at the TED conference in 2020