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As civil servants from the EU’s research directorate prepare to slink off to sunnier climates, the Research Commissioner suggests brain food to add to suitcases

Fresh data from the European Commission shows there is an increase in new female graduates. But a lack of women in leadership roles is a continuing problem, says Curt Rice, who leads Norway's committee on gender balance in research

Nature Photonics has published a study by group of researchers from Rome's Sapienza University, in collaboration with the Radboud University of Nijmegen and the Politecnico di Milano. The research shows that in the future it will be possible to store data at speeds ten thousand times higher than those achievable with our current technology.

The University of Luxembourg and the Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER (formerly CEPS/Instead) are to create and fund four joint professorships.

Dutch ESA Business Incubation Centre start-up company Lens Research & Development has been awarded the title of Most Innovative Company in the Netherlands as the winner of the first Shell LiveWire Rising Star competition.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council has granted planning permission for construction of the Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub.

Henkel and Ehler tell Research Commissioner to put basic research first, venture capital second

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn to investigate why male academics outnumber females in senior higher education posts in Ireland

Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas wants an initiative to tackle science misconduct to be in place by the end of the year. It is an issue Europe is divided on, says Simon Godecharle, researcher and ethicist at KU Leuven

As plans to base the precision medicines Catapult in Cambridge are announced, another Catapult gets off the ground at the site of AstraZeneca’s about-to-be-vacated R&D labs near Manchester

Nuclear investment is in serious decline, with renewables becoming more competitive

Exotic pentaquark particle spotted in CERN’s accelerator complex

Work to develop a new, adaptive and future-proof mobile network architecture for 5G has now started after a consortium composed of 13 partners, including King’s College London, and other leading industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and academic institutions joined forces earlier in the year.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling of electronics using graphene-based film. The film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper.

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks.

With matchmaking assistance from an EU programme, car manufacturing is about to be revived, 30 years after the last plant in the country closed

EU Research Commissioner, in Science|Business interview, calls for open discussion of his proposal to create an EIC

The EU Commission is setting up a new science advice scheme. Before recruiting experts, it should specify the goals and methodology, says Martin Kowarsch, Head of Scientific Assessments, Ethics and Public Policy at Germany’s MCC climate change research institute

The first Innovation Radar Report reviews the innovation potential of ICT projects funded under 7th Framework Programme and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, to demonstrate the economic impact of EU grant funding

With open access talks failing to break new ground, the Netherlands’ university association calls for researchers to consider giving up their posts with Elsevier journals