'His style might be better suited to Wall Street'
Steven Schwartz has ridden a bitter dispute, shaped national policy and opened minds to the market. Now he's quitting. Faisal al Yafai reports on the man who's engineered radical change at Brunel...
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Sick puppies, chief nipple twisters and the King of gall wasps
As a new website seeks to bring order to the naming of animal species, Michael North admires the handiwork of some of biology's creative jokers The Hitler beetle is a small, blind insect that lurks...
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Campus curiosities 14
John Hall-Edwards' hand and Gracie Fields' uterus, Birmingham University For Major John Hall-Edwards, the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen proved to be a life-changing revelation. In 1896, the...
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Ye olde Patch, Tweety Pie and Fru Fru
The medieval well-heeled loved keeping small pets, even though the habit raised eyebrows, says Steve Farrar The small dogs, caged birds and tame squirrels were much loved by the medieval nuns of St...
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Commission announces nominees for Descartes award for Science Communication
Brussels, 28 September 2005 How to make green slime, the Crazy Tale of BSE, mathematics you can touch, the Children’s University, sharks, quarks and the Beagle Mars lander... these are just...
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Galileo towards cooperation with Saudi Arabia
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 At the occasion of a visit of a delegation from the European Commission and the European Space Agency in Jeddah, the authorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have formally...
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Biotechnology debate must remain science-based, says Verheugen
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 The EU Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, Günter Verheugen, has reiterated the need for an open debate on the benefits of biotechnology and the ethical questions...
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Commission responds to assessment of its research programmes
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 The Commission has responded positively to a five year assessment of its research programmes, agreeing with the identification of four main challenges. The expert panel's report...
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European Universities Association launches consultation on FP7
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 The European Universities Association (EUA) has begun a consultation process with it membership on areas of the Commission's proposals for the Seventh Framework Programme of...
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Global and persistent e-infrastructure for scientific knowledge in the 21st century
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 The fourth and last conference of the EU-funded 'enabling grids for e-science' (EGEE) project will take place in Pisa, Italy, from 24 to 28 October. This high profile event will...
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Partnering for rare disease therapy development
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 A workshop on partnering for rare disease therapy development will take place in London, UK, from 25 to October. Organised by the European Platform for Patients' Organisations,...
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EFSA issues call for growth promoting hormone data
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a call for scientific data related to legally used growth promoting hormones in bovines. The scientific evidence (from...
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Agenda of the 303rd Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), 29 September 2005
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 Full text of Document 3314/05 Chairman: Richard ESCRITT; European Commission, Director 1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda 2. Approval of the Draft Summary Conclusions of the 302nd...
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Report of the Working Group on Domain Restructuring (link)
Brussels, 28 Sep 2005 Full text of Document 286/05 Suite of documents 286/05 From: Prof. Bertil Andersson, Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation Dated: 19 September 2005 To: Prof....
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'Big baby' galaxy found in newborn Universe
Paris, 28 Sep 2005 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have teamed up to 'weigh' the stars in distant galaxies. One of these galaxies is not only one of the most...