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The rising tide of drug-resistant infections and dearth of new antibiotics calls for the same kind of urgency and action as the HIV/AIDs epidemic, says Laura Piddock, founder of Antibiotic Action

Dr Andrew Dove from the University of Warwick has been named the Royal Society of Chemistry Gibson-Fawcett Award winner for 2014. The award recognises “original and independent contributions to materials chemistry”.

UCL is today inaugurating a new Quantum Science & Technology Institute (UCLQ). The new institute will coordinate and support research into quantum science and technology across UCL, helping to develop this fast-advancing field of research.

ThioLogics, a UCL Business company, spun-out of the UCL Department of Chemistry has entered into a new collaboration with Novozymes Biopharma.

The European Molecular Biology Organization, EMBO, announced on May 7th that 106 distinguished researchers in the life sciences were newly elected to membership in the organisation.

Study shows little progress in bridging the gap between the world’s networked economies and rest of world; Nordic countries dominate Networked Readiness Index, while emerging markets struggle most in realising digital potential

Digital seabed mapping and skills gap analysis are among the main initiatives that the Commission hopes will boost innovation in the maritime economy

After the first launch in April, the European Space Agency’s new Copernicus earth observation system has just begun to beam back images. This will be a spur for innovation, says project coordinator Josef Aschbacher

With the honourable exception of digital technologies, science and innovation policies have not featured in the campaign for the EU’s top job

SESAR is moving into a new phase, in which the public-private partnership will begin implementation of air traffic management technologies defined and developed in research spanning 2007 – 2013. The project has Horizon 2020 funding of €600M

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from KU Leuven in Belgium has developed a new technique to examine how proteins interact with each other at the level of a single HIV viral particle. The technique allows scientists to study the life-threatening virus in detail and makes screening potential anti-HIV drugs quicker and more efficient. The technique can also be used to study other diseases.

ATTRACT brings science development to open innovation in products and services in industry, education, research and policy. The project is currently seeking potential partners.

With just a week to go until this year's Imperial Festival, final preparations are underway to launch the UK's largest robotics network at the event.

The James Dyson Foundation has donated £8m to create a technology hub at the heart of Cambridge, providing the University of Cambridge’s brightest engineers with some of the world’s most advanced engineering laboratories.

Some of the UK's most promising entrepreneurs will have access to an innovative new business education programme launched at Imperial today.

Europe’s universities warn that new restrictions on the use of personal data will undermine important health and medical research

It’s more than 8 years late and cost more than twice the original budget. But the Wendelstein machine to be unveiled this month provides fresh momentum for fusion research and will complement the ITER project

The economic significance of patents ranges from impacts on growth and global trade, to patent portfolio management within firms. The EU could do more to extract value from its patent store, says Theon van Dijk, Chief Economist, European Patent Office

From traffic management to healthcare, there is huge potential in unlocking public information stores, Pól Mac Aonghusa, senior research manager at IBM tells Science|Business

Director of UCL Advances and Director of UCL Enterprise Operations, Timothy Barnes, has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion.