For Yet Better Science

The ideas and culture of ancient Rome influence the art, architecture, science, technology, literature, language, and law of today.  

Thousands of years after its collapse, ancient Rome is well known for its ingenious engineering tactics and advanced technology. From constructing hundreds of roads stretching thousands of miles to maintaining a water supply sustaining millions of people, Roman engineers provided the ancient world with technology ahead of its time.  

Science and technology in the Netherlands  has an extended history, producing many notable achievements and discoveries in the field. It is an important component in the  economic  and  societal  development of the  Netherlands . The  Dutch government  is a driver of scientific and technological progress with science expenditure passing €4.5 billion every year.

Early in 2018, the UK’s BioIndustry Association and the Medicines Discovery Catapult 1  published a remarkable report calling for the process of drug discovery to be ‘humanised’ in order to ease the productivity crisis in pharmaceutical research. The mission of the Medicines Discovery Catapult is to help UK biotech companies transform so that the UK can maintain its position as one of the prime locations for developing new medicines. The UK industry leaders interviewed for the report stated that the key problem with the current system was the poor ability of existing pre-clinical models to reliably predict safety and efficacy in humans.

With the help of EU backing, the University of Latvia’s Institute of Solid State Physics has achieved elevated academic standing and greater collaboration between science and industry.  

A building that once housed an iconic former department store in the centre of Slovenia’s third largest city has come back to life with a fresh appearance and new content to become the country’s largest park for promoting science, technology and innovation and a place where science lives.

Emotionally charged, yet evidence free, accusations of scams, fraud and cover-ups are common. While they mostly lack credibility, such accusations may be effective at  polarising debate and reducing understanding .