Take me to your leading scholars
Only fools and frauds claim to have been abducted by aliens. Right? Wrong, says Susan Clancy, who finds that even eminent professors believe they have fallen foul of ET Everyone knows how it happens...
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'Jack hated this Beat Generation thing. It was all promoted by Ginsberg'
Alan Wilkinson goes off-road to track down the wife of Kerouac's 'Muse' A shaft of afternoon sunlight filters through the trees, illuminating a thin film of dust on the coffee-table. My host tuts. "I...
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Campus curiosities
Number 15: The redundant nuns of Jesus College, Cambridge Hidden in the fabric of Jesus College, Cambridge, is a story of ambition, heartless expropriation, academics and nuns. In the late 15th...
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Stars of the screen lose the sparkle of romance
Few professional astronomers use a telescope to explore the heavens. Geoff Watts asks whether computers have killed off a golden age You, the telescope, the night sky and a myriad stars at which to...
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Major grants
Deadline: 01/12/2005
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Carnegie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Astronomy
Deadline: 01/12/2005
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Inaugural Meeting of ISO Technical Committee on Nanotechnologies to be held 9-11 November at BSI in London
Geneva, 12 Oct 2005 The inaugural meeting of ISO technical committee ISO/TC 229, Nanotechnologies, the engineering of tiny machines on the nanometer scale (usually 0.1-100nm), will be held 9-11...
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US National Academies of Science Researchers Say 1918 Flue Epidemic was an Avian Flu (plus several links)
Washington, 12 Oct 2005 By restructuring the 1918 influenza virus, scientists have discovered the deadly disease was an avian flu that advanced directly from birds to humans. The 1918 pandemic killed...
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Globalisation is driving an increase in international offshoring of research and development centres, finds OECD report (link)
Paris, 11 October 2005 Offshoring of research and development is on the rise, with more multinationals setting up research and development (R&D) laboratories abroad, according to a new OECD...
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Admission of third-country nationals to carry out scientific research in EU - directive and recommendation adopted: Justice and Home Affairs Council (in the margins), 12 October
Brussels, 12 October 2005 The Council adopted: - a directive on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for purposes of scientific research (9288/05+COR 1, 10510/05) and - a...
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Package for Admission of Researchers adopted
Luxembourg, 12 October 2005 The package that the Council adopted today consists of a Directive which sets out a specific procedure for admitting third country nationals for the purposes of scientific...
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Growth and Jobs: Commission tables 19 measures to boost innovation and research
Brussels, 12 October 2005 The EU invests about a third less in research than the US, and the EU/US innovation gap has not narrowed in recent years. Meanwhile, emerging countries like China and India...
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An action plan to boost research and innovation
Brussels, 12 October 2005 The European Commission has tabled an integrated innovation and research action plan, which calls for a major upgrade of the conditions for research and innovation in Europe...
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UK Presidency to draw up new text on FP7 for Council's consideration
Brussels, 12 Oct 2005 EU ministers gathered in Luxembourg on 11 October heard that the UK Presidency intends to draw up a revised draft text on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for debate at the...
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European project develops new technologies to detect food contaminants
Brussels, 12 Oct 2005 The EU funded BioCop project is bringing together research expertise on new techniques to screen a variety of foodstuffs for multiple chemical contaminants, including pesticides...