Brussels, Feb 2004 The European Parliament has published a call for tenders aimed at selecting a service provider to provide scientific advice to its Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (...
Brussels, Feb 2004 The letter as a document image file on the UNICE website Dear Mr Schaub, Thank you for your letter of 9 February 2004 in response to our assessment of the current package regarding...
Paris, Feb 2004 Today's launch of Flight 158 with the Rosetta spacecraft will be delayed by a few days to allow for a minor repair to the external thermal protection on Ariane 5's core cryogenic...
Lecturers to take action over pay Lecturers yesterday voted to stop marking exams and essays in a pay row. The Association of University Teachers said more than 80 per cent of members had backed...
Brussels, 26 Feb 2004 The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced on 25 February that it is to create 14 new research units where scientists and academics will attempt to answer 'special...
Brussels, 26 Feb 2004 The Board of the Ludvig Holberg memorial fund is inviting nominations for an international prize for outstanding scientific work in the areas of social sciences, arts and...
Paris, 26 Feb 2004 Today's launch of Flight 158 with the Rosetta spacecraft has been put on hold for 24 hours due to weather at Europe's spaceport in French Guiana. The weather hold was due to wind...
Experts split after Royal Society backs animal testing The scientific world was divided last night after the Royal Society published a report (The use on non-human animals in research: A guide for...
Although not a standard textbook, The Observer's Book of Astronomy by Patrick Moore did more to set me on a career path in science than any number of standard-issue schoolbooks and humdrum teachers....
Christopher Wood discovers what really drives biologist Richard Dawkins to wonder. It is too early to describe the landscape of the post-Hutton report world. But just in case the days of a free press...
In a field dominated until recently by American texts, these three books add to a growing literature that focuses on online business activity from a UK perspective. All three offer case studies and,...
One of the world's leading cancer researchers, 91-year-old Sir Richard Doll, has said he would be willing to go to prison for breaking one of the many new laws that academics believe are stifling...
The national academic pay system began to crumble this week as leading universities forged ahead with plans to set their own pay levels - despite the strike by the largest academic union. The...
Andrew Wakefield is back in the news after being accused of concealing a potential conflict of interest in his 1998 study purporting to link the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel...
* Graham Winch , professor of business analysis in the University of Plymouth's Business School, has been made president-elect of the Systems Dynamics Society. He will serve as society president for...