Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 European ministers meeting in the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 19 July were not able to resolve their differences over granting market authorisation for food and food...
22 Jul 2004 Virtually everything we do has been profoundly affected by the Information Revolution: How we travel, how we shop, how we communicate, how we do business. Computers, telecommunications...
Brussels, 22 July 2004 Within the €3.6 million EU research project PROMESS1 (PROfiles across MEditerranean Sedimentary Systems), with an EU contribution of €2.7 million, European scientists...
Brussels, 22 July 2004 A team of European researchers plans to perfect techniques for producing antibodies and vaccines, obtained from plants, to prevent and treat major human diseases, such as AIDS...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 Up to 70 per cent of the European coastal shelf is made up of permeable sand, and as well as producing some memorable beaches, this sand also represents a valuable resource...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 A launch event for two new Grid projects under the information society technologies (IST) section of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Brussels from 15 to...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 The world conference of science journalists will take place in Montréal, Canada, from 4 to 8 October. The aims of the conference are to: - enhance the story-telling skills that...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 The EU funded EQUAL project has published a call for tenders for laboratories to carry out molecular diagnostics in areas such as clinical chemistry, human genetics, haematology...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2004 Full summary and link to full opinion on Topas 19/2 Full summary and link to full opinion on maize lines Bt176, MON 810 and T25 European Food Safety Authority -- EFSA
Merger creates an academic cash giant Manchester will become Britain's first half-billion pound university in terms of academic earnings. The merger of Manchester University and the University of...
Is dyslexia being used as a convenient excuse by lazy students who want to gain access to extra exam time and one-to-one tuition? The experts are divided. Chris Bunting reports. Peter Shaw has...
The Butler report has thrown up concerns about the state of British democracy. Huw Richards investigates as part of our series on democracies around the world. "It took me a long time to understand...
As Prospect magazine publishes its list of the UK's greatest public intellectuals, Sean Coughlan asks why we are so obsessed with the top 100 of just about everything. What's the latest top 100 list...
Ray Tallis holds a chair in geriatric medicine and a fascination for philosophy. Geoff Watts meets a man of many talents. From the titles alone of his past half-dozen books you would know that Ray...
Laurie Taylor gets a peek at the minds Prospect turned down and finds out why. It was not an easy matter for Prospect to compile its list of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals. Extensive...