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A new report throws light on the damaging outcomes when scientists ignore gender in their research

German physicist Christiane Heinicke is spending one year as a pretend-astronaut in a Mars simulation. She talks to Science|Business about her motivation for helping to prepare humans mentally for an historic journey to the red planet

Joint letter in August reveals European Institute of Innovation and Technology chiefs disagree with proposed changes to how their innovation clusters would operate. EIT says it's 'finalising the agreements'

The makeup of the new seven-strong Scientific Advice Mechanism will be announced by the end of October and open for business before the end of the year

The proposed independent court would replace the investor-state dispute settlement clause that has become the main obstacle in negotiating the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

The annual QS league table shows Asian institutes are making big gains. Meanwhile, Reuters launches its inaugural rankings, where universities with particular emphasis on science and technology score high

The latest Business Incubation Centre of CERN technologies (BIC) agreement was signed today in conjunction with the Helsinki Institute of Physics (link is external) and Tampere University of Technology

Boeing-built 702SP satellite transitions to customer ABS ahead of schedule

Patients to benefit from new £3M Blood and Transplant Research Unit University of Warwick research used to develop world-leading unit

The University of Basel, the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich will together launch a new course of study in medicine. Participants would study at ETH Zurich for their bachelor’s degrees and go on to complete a master’s degree at one of the partner universities

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.