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Research and innovation is low on the agenda for MEPs elected to represent radical parties – if it features at all. With the EU’s new legislature facing an array of science-related policy, will this disinterest matter?

A band of enthusiastic reformers want to see more problem-solving lessons on school curricula

Familiar faces will return, while others, including the current chair of the ITRE committee, wave their handkerchiefs to Brussels

Current methods for treating salt water to make it drinkable are energy-intensive, require harsh chemicals and produce waste – but new technologies that reduce the environmental impact of desalination are in the pipeline.

The new EU-sponsored university league table launched on the 13 May, puts emphasis in unusual places and looks to be drawing conclusions based on low samples, says Per-Anders Östling

More than 2,500 New Yorkers joined ETH Zurich professors and other well-known international personalities from U.S. research and industry for 12 awe-inspiring events as part of the Zürich Meets New York festival.

Two aircraft engine concepts, geared turbofan and open rotor, can enable a significant reduction to aircraft fuel consumption. With open rotor, the potential reduction is 15 per cent. These are the findings of Linda Larsson, who has analysed and evaluated the two concepts.

Imperial College London is to build a new and pioneering biomedical engineering centre thanks to an unprecedented £40 million gift from Michael Uren OBE and the Michael Uren Foundation.

Journalists are invited to attend London’s largest free event for entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to set up and grow their businesses.

The ‘radical’ parties gain ground in Euro elections – but their impact depends on how well they organise themselves in Brussels

José Manuel Soria, the Spanish Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, will give a keynote address

The 2014 Areas of Advance prize goes to Andreas Hellström, senior lecturer and director of the Centre for Healthcare Improvement (CHI), a research and education centre that has had great impact on improvements in health care and is contributing to a sustainable society. The SEK 100,000 prize will support the work being carried out by CHI and Chalmers to further develop Swedish health care services.

Eirma's annual conference will be part of the larger ESOF event (21-26 June)

The term innovation ecosystem is more than a convenient description. The means by which ecosystems are formed and developed provide a practical model for reshaping Europe’s innovation processes, says Didier Schmitt

While it has a high reputation for the quality of its basic medical research, Poland lacks the means to translate this into the clinic. International collaboration is needed to help build this infrastructure

With the changing of the guard in Brussels imminent, Europe’s manufacturing industries are calling for serious thinking on energy in the next half decade

As of 17 May 2014, Prof. Alain Beretz (President of the University of Strasbourg) is the new Chair of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Elected by the LERU Rectors in November last year, Beretz takes over from Prof. Bernd Huber (President of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), who has been LERU’s Chair since 2008.

Five Imperial chemists have been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes in recognition of the advancements they have made in chemical sciences.

Science|Business pores over the contents of the main party groupings’ short manifestos, finding common goals and little appetite for controversy