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EU struggles to fix faltering carbon trading scheme

10 May 2013 News and Analysis

Supporters of emissions market hopeful parliament will vote again on measure to bolster price of pollution

Germany, China create nanotech centre

26 March 2013 News and Analysis

Collaboration will look to marine animals for bio-inspired materials to treat conditions like osteoporosis

Antibiotic resistance is a ‘ticking time bomb’

13 March 2013 News and Analysis

Efforts to tackle the threat will need new thinking, but their may be no easy solutions or short cuts to new drugs

Fukushima disaster predicted to raise cancer rates slightly

5 March 2013 News and Analysis

World Health Organization report expects cancer risk to rise marginally, but doesn't put a figure on the number of deaths expected

German research minister’s doctoral thesis revoked in plagiarism row

6 February 2013 News and Analysis

University of Dusseldorf concludes that Annette Schavan copied large portions of her doctoral dissertation

EU proposes neonicotinoid pesticide ban

5 February 2013 Business

Clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid at centre of debate over declining bee populations

EU food agency links pesticides to bee decline

18 January 2013 News and Analysis

Agency says neonicotinoids should only be used on crops bees avoid but agrichemical companies dispute its findings

Top academics targeted in scheme to boost poorer European regions

21 December 2012 News and Analysis

The European commission's pilot will provide funding of up to €2.4 million per post to attract the best researchers

Tragic death of Oxford astrophysicist

3 December 2012 News and Analysis

Steven Rawlings, co-author of maths books for chemists, was accidentally killed by his friend and colleague, the coroner has ruled

Scientists come together to fight EU budget cuts

28 November 2012 News and Analysis

Open letters from heads of research organisations and 44 Nobel laureates make the case for the economic importance of science

Questions remain after huge hydrofluoric acid leak

8 November 2012 News and Analysis

Korean residents in the affected zone are still afraid to return home six weeks after the disaster that killed five workers

EU food agency criticises GM maize cancer paper

5 October 2012 News and Analysis

A review of a paper linking herbicide tolerant maize to tumours in rats has been castigated as poor science

Review of GM cancer scare paper

27 September 2012 News and Analysis

Preliminary results will be reported next week after review of the controversial paper

Scientists: workaholics but happy

6 September 2012 News and Analysis

A study of the patterns of journal paper downloads shows scientists work through the night and at weekends

Bleak outlook for Greek chemistry

30 July 2012 News and Analysis

Greece's financial troubles have already caused severe damage to academia and the chemical sciences

€224 million EU antibiotics initiative launched

1 June 2012 News and Analysis

The project will bring together the pharmaceutical industry and academia, but some institutes have reservations

Austrian institute hits the funding big time

1 March 2012 News Archive

The IST Austria is set to receive one billion euros in funding prompting some complaints of government favouritism

Europe plans large cash injection for research

5 December 2011 News Archive

The successor to the FP7 programme will put 80 billion euros into research over the next seven years

EU pays a heavy price for air pollution

2 December 2011 News Archive

Air pollution from the 10,000 largest industrial facilities cost the region as much as 169 billion euros in 2009

Cuts threaten autonomy at EU universities

23 November 2011 News Archive

A new report says that funding cuts are having a damaging impact on university freedoms

Universities around the world prepare to welcome an influx of Brazilian students

14 October 2011 News Archive

Brazil plans to boost scientific knowhow by sending 75,000 students abroad to study

One year on from Hungary's red mud disaster

5 October 2011 News Archive

On the first anniversary of the country's worst environmental accident the area has recovered surprisingly quickly

Turkish science academy fights government interference

13 September 2011 News Archive

Academics will meet with the Turkish president to try to halt controversial government reforms

Analytical techniques help uncover huge art forgery ring

7 September 2011 News Archive

Science will take centre stage in art forgery court case starting in Germany

European research funding rises 9 per cent to ?7 billion

29 July 2011 News Archive

New materials, health and energy are some of the biggest beneficiaries in the latest European funding round

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