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Students not as clever as they used to be More than a third of lecturers consider the academic ability of university students to be worse than it was ten years ago and more than one in four believes...
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Results of the FP6 First Call for Projects on Food Quality and Safety (links)
Brussels, 10 Aug 2004 As a result of the first call for proposals under the Sixth Framework Programme's (FP6) Food Quality and Safety priority, 24 research projects and 12 specific support actions (...
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Financial and linguistic restraints key obstacles to student mobility, finds UK report
Brussels, 10 Aug 2004 In light of a decline in outward mobility of Erasmus students from the UK compared with other EU countries, and an imbalance between incoming and outgoing students to and from...
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Agricultural biotechnology international conference
Brussels, 10 Aug 2004 The agricultural biotechnology international conference (ABIC) 2004 will be held from 12 to 15 September in Cologne, Germany, marking the first time that the event has been...
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Relays from Mars demonstrate international interplanetary networking
Paris, 10 Aug 2004 Photograph of crater interior from Opportunity via Mars Express ESA's Mars Express has relayed pictures from one of NASA's Mars rovers for the first time, as part of a set of...
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World's Fastest Solar-Powered Car Hits the Road in Sweden and Norway at up to 170 km/hour
Paris, 10 Aug 2004 It isn't a UFO, it's a space-age car The world's fastest solar-powered car is being driven through Sweden and Norway. Nuna 2, the world's fastest solar-powered car begins its...
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Scientists Deliver First Reports on Mars Geological History
Brussels, 10 Aug 2004 Scientists studying geological findings from the rover Spirit's first three months on Mars have found evidence of a history of volcanic blanketing, impact cratering and wind...
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Tuition fee move to boost young medics The full cost of variable tuition fees for medical and dental students in their fifth and sixth years of training will be met by the Government, it emerged...
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Today's news
Students not as clever as they used to be More than a third of lecturers consider the academic ability of university students to be worse than it was ten years ago and more than one in four believes...
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EPO Board of Appeals Opinion in "Methods for detection of carcinoma metastases by nucleic acid amplification" - Applicant: F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE AG, et al - Opponents: Akzo Novel N.V. and Vysis Inc. (l
Munich, 09 Aug 2004 Full text European Patent Office Item source: http://legal.european-patent-office.org/ dg3/biblio/t021091ex1.htm
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EMBL scientists achieve breakthrough in microscope technology
Brussels, 09 Aug 2004 Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have come up with a revolutionary new microscope which, for the first time, allows an observer to study living...
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International trade fair for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, Hamburg
Brussels, 09 Aug 2004 An International trade fair for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies will be held in Hamburg, Germany from 15 to 17 September. This conference is Europe's biggest marketplace for...
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EU invests in plant food
Brussels, 09 Aug 2004 With food security and health at the top of the EU agenda, the Commission is funding the establishment of a pan-European network of institutions dealing with safety and health...
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UK sets up stammer library
Brussels, 09 Aug 2004 A team of UK scientists has set up a unique internet-based voice library of stammering. It is hoped the collection of almost 150 recordings made over ten years will boost...
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CPMR calls for increased regional dimension to future EU research strategy
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 The conference of peripheral maritime regions (CPMR), an association representing geographically remote areas of Europe, has expressed its surprise at the 'unambitious' regional...