Brussels, 26 May 2004 The European Commission has launched a call for proposals for women and science under the science and society activity area of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). This call...
Paris, 26 May 2004 Launched in October 1997, the ESA/NASA Cassini-Huygens mission is currently heading for Saturn. While ESA's Huygens probe will be the first ever to land on the surface of a moon in...
Paris, 26 May 2004 ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta, whose 10-year journey to its final target Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko started on 2 March, is well on its way. The first phase of commissioning is...
Brussels, 25 May 2004 The library contains an overview of over 150 Integrated Projects (IPs) and Networks of Excellence (NoEs) listed by thematic priority. The What's New? section features projects...
Brussels, 25 May 2004 An official enquiry into the failure of the Beagle 2 Mars lander has found that 'there were programmatic and organisational reasons that led to a significantly higher risk of...
Brussels, 25 May 2004 An EU-NIS (Newly Independent States) partnering event in bio-informatics will take place in Novosibirsk, Russia, from 25 to 30 July. The purpose of the partnering event is to...
Brussels, 25 May 2004 The Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research, APRE, is organising a workshop on the contractual and administrative aspects of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6),...
Brussels, 25 May 2004 The International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) is organising its fifth international post-harvest symposium, to take place in Verona, Italy, from 6 to 11 June....
Animal activists could be barred near labs Activists campaigning for animal welfare could be permanently barred from demonstrating outside Britain's biggest testing laboratory or its employees' homes...
IVF baby born using sperm frozen in 1979 A baby born using sperm which was frozen for 21 years is believed to mark a world record in fertility treatment, British researchers said on Monday. The boy,...
Deadline: 25/06/2004
Beagle fell victim to Martian heatwave, says Pillinger Britain's ill-fated Beagle 2 space probe probably fell victim to the wrong kind of weather - a Martian heatwave - Colin Pillinger of the Open...
Brussels, 24 May 2004 The seas around Europe and beyond are awash with tiny scraps of plastic discarded by beachgoers and other careless polluters, say UK researchers who combed scores of British...
Brussels, 24 May 2004 The problems associated with ageing societies calls for intensified scientific research to answer vital questions. What will ageing societies look like? How does ageing affect...
Brussels, 24 May 2004 This event - the International Symposium on the Geology and Geophysics of the Southernmost Andes, the Scotia Arc and the Antarctic Peninsula - will provide a forum for...