Brussels, 25 Nov 2005 The news: The European Commission is to award the annual Descartes Prize for Research and the Descartes Prize for Science Communication. The Descartes Prizes for Research...
Brussels, 25 Nov 2005 The news: The Commission is to publish its annual scoreboard for industrial research and development. The scoreboard of industrial R&D gives figures and analysis...
Brussels, 25 November 2005 Full text of Document 14764/05 Suite of documents 14764/05 14832/05 PTS A 54 3. Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the 7th...
Brussels, 25 November 2005 Full text of Document 4226/05 Subject: 305th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) Date: 5 December 2005 (9:30 h) Venue: Council Secretariat...
Paris, 25 Nov 2005 The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a new EU-funded project under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to open up access to the International Space Station (ISS) for new...
Paris, 25 Nov 2005 Delegations from 190 nations will attend next week's United Nations summit in Montreal, Canada, to begin negotiating a post-Kyoto Protocol strategy to restrict emissions of heat-...
Paris, 25 Nov 2005 A recent check of the VIRTIS imaging spectrometer during the Venus Express commissioning phase has allowed its first remote-sensing data to be acquired, using Earth and the Moon as...
London, 25 November 2005 This document reports the results of a study aimed at evaluating the impact of emissions from Ultra Wideband (UWB) devices on the Radio Astronomy service (RAS) in the UK. The...
Dons divided on plans to hand over patent rights to Cambridge University Dons at Cambridge are to vote this week on the university's controversial plan to take control of money-making inventions amid...
The Life and Times of Mexico
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist fascinated by country life: "Whoever has happened to travel from Bolkhov County...
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