Paris, Jan 2006 Animated diagram of leaf area index An ambitious ESA project to chart ten years in the life of the Earth's vegetation has reached a midway point, with participants and end-users...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 203/06 Suite of documents 203/06 Delegations will find attached a proposal from the COST Office on the "Open Call and Selection Criteria for new COST Actions...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 204/06 Suite of documents 204/06 To: COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Subject: JAF meeting 15/16 February 2006, agenda item 10 - A new COST Instrument...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 5/1/05 Revision 01 Suite of documents 5/1/05 Subject: Participation of non-COST countries and International/European bodies in COST Actions Delegations will...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 312/05 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 312/05 Item 15, Any Other Business, p. 8: "The Group agreed to the intention of the Austrian representative, Dr Mieling...
Man questioned over murder of cot death researcher Detectives were yesterday questioning a man over the murder of a scientist who was found stabbed 49 times and strangled with her own sweater at her...
De La Mettrie's Ghost
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an epistolary novel by a much-televised writer: "My dear brother, I can no longer refuse myself the...
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia - Mozart - Mozart and His Operas
Chaplin and Agee
Joined-Up Government
A Matter of Principle
Urgent action is required to avert a crisis in the UK's social sciences, according to a major report that reveals for the first time the full extent of staffing problems in the field. The report, due...
Stuck-up, disorganised and unclean, with terrible dress sense and illegible handwriting. This is how lecturers are summed up in the responses to a poll that asked university students: "What really...
Ian Boyd, professor at St Andrews University's Sea Mammal Research Unit, on our fascinating friends The excitement over a bottlenose whale's sojourn in the River Thames last week sank into...