College living: the pitfalls of buying property for your children Over the course of the four years needed for a typical degree, parents could expect to spend €35,200.

Is it possible for parents to buy a property near their children’s college and later sell it at a profit?

The five key trends in global R&D The traditional image of R&D is of a group of scientists in a lab somewhere working on projects together. This has been overtaken by a model where multiple labs and groups around the world work on projects together. Photograph: iStock

From following the sun to clean meat, here are the latest developments in research and development

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