Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 Over 400 astronomers from across Europe and beyond have written to the European Space Agency (ESA), calling on it to reconsider cancelling the Eddington mission. Such a move...
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 On the eve of a United Nations vote on a proposed ban on human cloning, a group of leading stem cell scientists made a final appeal to the UN General Assembly on 5 November not...
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 The UK is to launch a new research programme investigating the ability of companies to adapt to the demands of a knowledge-based economy. The 'evolution of business knowledge'...
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 The Commission is supporting a European conference on innovative technologies and materials for the protection of cultural heritage, which will take place in Athens, Greece, on...
Paris, 06 Nov 2003 The Dutch Ministers of Economical Affairs and of Education, Culture and Science have announced the mission name of the next Soyuz flight to the International Space Station, which...
Paris, 06 Nov 2003 Main media events surrounding the arrival of ESA's Mars Express at Mars ESA's Mars Express probe is scheduled to arrive at Mars at Christmas: the Beagle 2 lander is expected to...
Paris, 06 Nov 2003 Today, at its 105th meeting, ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has made important decisions concerning the Cosmic Vision programme. Due to the current financial exigencies...
Brussels, 06 Nov 2003 FINAL A5-0369/2003 4 November 2003 Type of Procedure: Consultation procedure REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision amending decision 2002/834/EC on the specific...
The public may be clinging to the image of the geeky physics boffin, as a survey out this week suggests, but Basil Singer, a quantum physicist and devotee of extreme sports, is one of a new breed...
Universities are threatening to withdraw their support for the forthcoming top-up fees bill as government attempts to broker a deal for poor students reach deadlock. With less than three weeks to go...
If Coventry University considers itself an enterprising institution now, it can expect to be shouting louder about it when its new vice-chancellor, Madeleine Atkins, takes up her post next September...
John Glascock , former Oliver T. Carr professor at George Washington University, has been appointed Grosvenor professor of real estate finance in the department of land economy at the University of...
An impasse over the status of academic-related staff could lead to a strike and scupper the agreement on pay. Phil Baty reports The Association of University Teachers could call all of its 47,000...
The Labour-controlled Welsh Assembly may abandon its opposition to top-up fees even if it gets devolved powers over student funding as expected. The admission came after the Liberal Democrats...
Leading lights of the UK's film, broadcasting and publishing industries warn in The THES today that funding council plans to cut teaching support for media studies courses will damage one of the...