Today's news
Surprise omission from science cities list Leeds was understandably miffed when Gordon Brown named Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and York as the first of a clutch of UK science cities. Its...
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UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee Report on Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law (link)
London, 25 Mar 2005 Full text of Fifth Report [...] Conclusions and recommendations 1. While it has been argued that there have been many scientific developments and changes in social attitudes, the...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 30 March 2005
Brussels, 25 Mar 2005 Full text of Document 1064/05 1. Human resources in science and technology - Draft Council Conclusions docs. 7321/05 RECH 57 7322/05 RECH 58 SOC 124 DS 145/05 2. A.O.B. [Public...
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"Back to the future": countdown to Shuttle return to flight
Paris, 25 Mar 2005 Launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will soon see the Shuttle blasting off again for a new exciting mission in space. According to NASA's current schedule, this will...
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Proba workshop: small satellite yielding beautiful results
Paris, 25 Mar 2005 Photos In orbit for three and a half years now, ESA's smallest Earth Observation satellite is making a big contribution to science, a workshop heard this week. Proba applications...
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Today's news
How the Boxing Day quake made new tremor inevitable The earthquake of magnitude 8.7 that struck off the coast of Sumatra yesterday fulfilled many of the worst fears of scientists, who predicted just...
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Exposed despite a life in disguise
Dirk Bogarde
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Girls, guts, gossip and genetic glory
The Writing Life of James D. Watson
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A deadly discord beneath the Prophet's banner
The War for Muslim Minds
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Journeys into 'terra incognita' of the mind
The New Brain Sciences
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that was made into a film in 1973: "The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in...
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The eyes have it, even if the message is a blur
The Visual Neurosciences (Volumes One and Two)
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The first step and the first word
Developmental Psychology - Children's Literacy Development
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Fuzzy logic and furry reasoning
Do Animals Think?