A boyhood fascination with the natural world sparked Richard Fortey's interest in the geologies that have shaped human development. Harriet Swain meets a hands-on adventurer. Richard Fortey leads the...
Home was Windsor Castle, school was Eton and Freya Stark was his godmother, so how did Malise Ruthven get his fascination with Islam and fundamentalism? Anthony Freeman finds out No religion...
Brussels, 3 March 2004 Commission Decision of 23 February 2004 laying down detailed arrangements for the operation of the registers for recording information on genetic modifications in GMOs,...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 REPORT on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive 86/609/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 Full text of Document 6893/04 Suite of documents 6893/04 No. prev. doc.: 6592/04 TRANS 83 MAR 26 AVIATION 47 RECH 31 Subject: Draft Council Conclusions on the European Global...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 Full text of Document 6868/04 Suite of documents 6868/04 Delegations will find attached revised draft Council conclusions, following the meeting of Coreper on February 2004....
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 Since Crick and Watson uncovered DNA's double helix 50 years ago, science has witnessed a surge of discoveries in biology, culminating in new fields of research, technologies...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 Science is becoming a world system, driven by the quest for knowledge and a desire to share it through greater collaboration. The EU's – indeed, the world's – goal of creating '...
Students face EU fight for places Extra money will have to be put into universities to protect places for home undergraduates following a predicted leap in numbers of students from the ten countries...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 Basic research brings enormous benefits to society and is one of the most cost-effective investments governments can make, the European Commission maintained during a recent...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 This is not a joke. Europe appears to be getting hotter but – instead of raising fears of rising mercury – a trans-Atlantic research team will spend the next four years studying...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 Page link DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, met with some of the country's top scientists on 2 March and announced a ten year investment plan for science, engineering...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 Microwaves could be used in security operations to identify concealed weapons, British researchers have announced. They could also help to unearth and dislodge buried mines. A...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2004 The Envirotech conference will take place in London, the UK, on 21 April. Run by Newzeye in conjunction with Imperial College innovations unit, the event will bring together...