Brussels, 19 Jul 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for a feasibility study on the creation of a structure or network to increase European research into private...
Brussels, 19 Jul 2004 To mark the launch of the Oxford Handbook of Innovation, the European Commission, the University of Oslo and Oxford University Press are jointly organising a conference entitled...
Paris, 19 Jul 2004 Europa links for photos What is the use of Earth Observation? Quite a lot is the short reply; the full list gets longer all the time. For the complete answer, visit ESA's new...
Paris, July 18, 2004 Early this morning (CEST), an Ariane 5G lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. On board was the largest telecommunications satellite ever launched. The...
Paris, 19 Jul 2004 At the last meeting of the Aurora Board of Participants, held at ESA's Paris headquarters on Thursday 8 July, the participating states approved the Preparatory Phase of the...
Paris, 19 Jul 2004 Today Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Mr Dimitris Sioufas, Minister for Development, signed the Agreement on Greece's accession to the ESA Convention, at the...
Obesity wonder drug could be an apparition When British scientist Stephen Bloom of Imperial College London announced two years ago that his team had developed a drug that could potentially cure...
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 A EU-funded project has developed improved monitoring techniques to measure the freshness of fish, with the aim of improving the quality of fish available to consumers....
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 Leading scientists from Austria, Germany, Italy, France and the UK have joined forces to tackle the fundamental issue of cell division. Funded under the EU's Sixth Framework...
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 Europe's Mars Express spacecraft may have detected ammonia in the atmosphere around the Red Planet; a sign that some scientists believe could point to the existence of life....
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 A conference on renewable energy sources (RES) and the rational use of energy (RUE) for islands, entitled 'RES for island', will take place in Larnaka, Cyprus, on 30 and 31...
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 The European society of gene therapy (ESGT) will hold its 12th annual congress in Tampere, Finland from 4 to 7 November. The aim of the conference is to discuss the potential...
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 An international conference on intelligent systems for molecular biology will be held in Glasgow, UK, from 31 July to 4 August. This conference will have the broadest scope of...
Paris, 16 Jul 2004 At the invitation of ESA and CNES, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is holding its 35th Scientific Assembly in Paris from 19 to 25 July. As happens every two years,...
Paris, 16 Jul 2004 Team 1097 - Aberdeen University Despite having our reservations about flying on the 13th, we were about to let our superstitions get the better of us. After overcoming the initial...