Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 The Finnish government has announced that it will raise public expenditure on research and development (R&D) by 56 million euro to a total of nearly 1.6 billion euro for...
Paris, 23 Feb 2005 ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta will make a fly-by of planet Earth on 4 March 2005, and sky watchers should be able to see it with telescopes or binoculars if the sky is clear! Read on...
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has upgraded its connection to the Internet, opening a new high-bandwidth line direct to the backbone network...
Oxford unveils radical plans to overhaul university governance Oxford University has published radical plans to overhaul its governance structure, creating a body that will bring the university's...
End of Sars as a deadly threat The killer Sars virus has been contained so effectively that it can be considered eradicated outside laboratories, scientists said on monday. Severe acute respiratory...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Full text of Document 1202/05 Suite of documents 1202/05 The meeting was chaired by Mr MITSOS (European Commission, Director General) and Mr ESCRITT (European Commission,...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A study carried out in the UK suggests that women scientists are more ambitious than their male counterparts, but feel they lack the support and encouragement needed to progress...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A committee of the United Nations has, in a split vote, approved an international declaration calling on countries to ban all forms of human cloning - both reproductive and...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Full text of this notice State aid in favour of Schneider Technologies AG State aid No C 26/2004 (ex NN 38/2004) Invitation to submit comments pursuant to Article 88(2) of the...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Images captured by Europe's Mars Express spacecraft have revealed what could be a frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, just below the surface of the Red Planet,...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Finland has adopted its position on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research, raising concerns about the management of research projects, and proposing a new scheme...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A project financed under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) has successfully developed an electronic implant to allow a blind person to recover some vision. In a ground-...
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Reforms will boost vocational training The “gold standards” of A levels and GCSEs will be enhanced to stretch the most able students, and vocational training will be boosted to end the snobbery that...
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 Ever since Alfred Noble announced his plans to establish annual prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine in 1897, there were those in the mathematics community who called for a...