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One year after a new law gave French universities autonomy, progress has been made – but they still lack the means to compete in the global war for talent.

The EU has launched a “no holds barred” review of its ICT research and innovation strategy. But critics warn diverting R&D spending to problem areas such as energy and health will hold back ICT’s wider potential.

The notion that resources should be shifted from physics to climate change research is wrong-headed, says Professor David Wark in his address to the British Association Festival of Science.

Financial incentives have attracted the Max Planck Society and an MIT lab to Florida. But can clusters be built on money alone?

As the most expensive experiment in history gets off the ground, the Large Hadron Collider should provide inspiration for European research as a whole.

A new report from Nesta shows that private money now accounts for only 43 per cent of early stage investments in the UK, leaving public funds to prop up innovation.

After the genome, the proteome, the metabolome and the transcriptome, lipids are the next entities to be subject to minute, whole-organism analysis.

Three European cancer centres are joining forces to develop and implement innovative treatments and reduce treatment related side effects.

The UK Medical Research Council is about to begin a survey of scientists it funds, with the aim of demonstrating the value of the research.