Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 Le 31 août 2005 Jacques Barrot, le commissaire européen chargé de la politique de transport, participera à une réunion avec...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 An international team of researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, has succeeded in controlling the speed...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The second European Hydrogen Energy Conference and Professional Meeting on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells will take place in Zaragoza, Spain, from 22 to 25 November. The conference is...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The food science thematic priority in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) should address six specific areas, according to Denmark's Centre for Advanced Food Studies (LMC), an...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 Scientific research has become a major issue in Germany's national elections with Federal Education and Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn reversing her position on the country'...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 A delegation representing Australia's leading 'group of eight' universities is to hold a series of meetings with major European research institutions in order to strengthen...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The third European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 'EMBEC'05' will be held in Prague, the Czech Republic, from 20 to 25 November. The scientific programme of EMBEC...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The Club of Amsterdam is organising an event on 'The future of ideas - intellectual property', that will be hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 21...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2005 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre has published a call for tenders for a review of the health effects and related risks from hair dyes. During the last decades...
Thousands miss out on university places Tens of thousands of students are to lose out on their dream of going to university, figures showed today. Top institutions such as University College London...
piercemuller@poppleton.ac.uk Out-of-office reply. Dr Piercemuller is away from his desk on annual research leave and will respond to your communication on his return. maureen@poppleton.ac.uk Dr...
When academics in Britain and elsewhere discuss the brain drain, they are normally worrying about the loss of high-flyers to the US. But lecturers' unions were right to remind us this week that the...
There are good reasons why there should be more postdoctoral students on temporary contracts in the physical and biological sciences than in the arts and social sciences. Modern scientific research...
In the leader about the article "IQ claim will fuel gender row" (August 26), the editor observes with pleasure that research on gender differences in IQ have not been hindered by "political...
Jonathan Baldwin mounts a spirited defence of the new University College London logo and of the importance of design ("Why I think designers are undervalued", August 12). He has raised a number of...