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An Imperial team is carrying out research to help with the clean-up of nuclear waste following the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

Over the last few weeks, CERN's nuclear physics facility, ISOLDE, has been producing ion beams at higher energies. The first cryomodule of the new HIE-ISOLDE (High-Intensity and Energy ISOLDE) accelerator is up and running, increasing the beam energy from 3 to 4.3 MeV per nucleon.

An improved gene therapy treatment can cure mice with cystic fibrosis (CF). Cell cultures from CF patients, too, respond well to the treatment. Those are the encouraging results of a study presented by the KU Leuven Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy.

Lund aims to spawn a cluster around two new science facilities. No doubt the MAX IV synchrotron and the European Spallation Source will attract scientists, but it takes more than labs alone to create a full-blown cluster

Partnership with IBM will equip researchers with ethical guidelines to using big data

A major showcase of companies developing new technologies from graphene and other two-dimensional materials took place this week at the Cambridge Graphene Centre

KU Leuven has entered into a strategic partnership with the University of Ljubljana.

Two leaders at King’s - Deborah Bull and Professor Louise Archer – have joined the British Science Association Board of Trustees, in recognition of their work to the science community.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, outgoing head of CERN, is the name with most international recognition, but researchers applauded the choice of the other panel members. Now the exact role and responsibilities of the panel need spelling out

Four of the seven members of the Commission’s new science advice panel talk to Science|Business about bridging the science-policy divide and avoiding the Brussels bear traps

Japan and the US host 75 per cent of the most innovative companies and research institutes in the world, according to the 2015 Thomson Reuters rankings

Microsoft is following Amazon and a string of other US companies in announcing new investments in European data centres following the scrapping of the Safe Harbour data pact between the EU and US

The university is facing cuts of €66 million and is now in talks with all employees – excluding professors – with the aim of reducing staff numbers by 17 percent

Here are short profiles of the seven leading scientists named to the European Commission’s new Scientific Advice Mechanism

Departing CERN head Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Fields medal winner Cédric Villani and UK Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo are among the new multi-disciplinary, seven-member advisory team

Clinical endocrinologist and innovator, professor Sudhesh Kumar has been appointed as Dean of Warwick Medical School

Public transport heads to the future with EU-funded trials in Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Greece. But the cost of computer-controlled buses could prove to be a speedbump

The fact that original research cannot be replicated does not point to fraud, but it does waste resources and slow scientific progress, says Jim Smith of the UK Medical Research Council. He shares his ideas for tackling the problem with Science|Business

As the German carmaker’s pollution problems deepen, pressure is increasing on the industry to shift resources to low-carbon cars, with hopes the nascent electric car industry can be propelled into the mass market

BAE Systems announces it is taking 20% new stake in space engine company Reaction Engines