Brussels, 29 May 2006 ALTER-Net, an EU-funded network of excellence (NoE), has established an inter-disciplinary research facility to investigate the complex relationship between ecosystems,...
Brussels, 29 May 2006 A new report by the British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the Dutch BirdLife International organisation reveals a severe decline in European bird...
Brussels, 29 May 2006 The European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) will host a conference on international research collaboration, from 18 to 20 June in Paris, France. The...
Paris, 29 May 2006 On the evening of May, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary...
Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics Britain's largest lecturers' union yesterday voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 The European Commission has launched a consultation on the draft research agenda for the theme 'socio-economic sciences and the humanities' in the Seventh Framework Programme (...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 The Irish government has announced the creation of a two million euro research programme for the biotechnology industry. This BioIndustry-Led Research Programme aims to address...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 French researchers have discovered that RNA, cousin of the more familiar DNA, has a role in the transfer of genetic information, completely changing the way in which we think...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 A trans-national group of researchers have pinpointed the source for the HIV virus that causes AIDS, in a population of chimpanzees in Cameroon. The find is likely to accelerate...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 Full text of Document 9513/06 Suite of documents 9513/06 MONDAY 29 MAY 2006 (9:30) 1. Adoption of the agenda 2. Approval of the list of "A" items 9685/06 PTS A 26 3. Better...
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This week's contest to identify a book from its first sentence is from a novel about Gandhi by a friend of Graham Greene: "His mother, who died delivering him, and his father, who was killed in...
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