Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 Mention the word 'nanotechnology' and images of serious high-tech innovation come to mind, not Renaissance potters firing their richly glazed ceramics. New evidence looks set to...
Brussels, 23 Jul 2003 A web portal offering information and links relating to innovation, creativity and idea management has been developed in Switzerland. Run by Yves Oesch, a consultant and trainer...
Brusels, 23 July 2003 Today the European Commission published guidelines for the development of strategies and best practices to ensure the co-existence of genetically modified (GM) crops with...
Paris, 23 Jul 2003 Is there life on other worlds or is planet Earth the only place in our Solar System where living organisms have evolved? ESA is inviting European and Canadian industry to...
Ministers blame regulator for A-level fiasco Ministers attempted yesterday to pass the buck for last summer's A-level marking problems on to the examinations regulator. The government was responding...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2003 A Commission study of 769 public research centres across Europe has concluded that a process of rationalisation at a European level would reduce the amount of funding needed to...
Brussels, 22 July 2003 The Council of Ministers today formally adopted two European Commission proposals on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) which establish a clear EU system to trace and label...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2003 A EUREKA project consortium has designed a software system aimed at helping companies comply with chemical-limit regulations. Companies involved in the food and pharmaceutical...
Paris, 22 Jul 2003 Scientists are celebrating the thousandth scientific publication from ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). ISO is fast becoming one of the world's most productive space missions...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2003 The European Commission has published a call for tenders related to the monitoring and analysis of science and technology (S&T) foresight activities. The tender is split...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2003 If the European Commission needed any reassurance that it is going in the right direction with regard to its communication on 'researchers in the European Research Area: one...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2003 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESEARCHERS IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA: ONE PROFESSION, MULTIPLE CAREERS Full Text INTRODUCTION...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2003 The European Commission has published a prior information notice for a contract to improve and network energy research and technological development (RTD) information systems...
Brussels, 22 Jul 2003 A European brokerage event on sensors and sensing systems will take place from 7 to 9 of September in Cambridge, UK. The event will gather technology users and developers in...
Krypton clue to North Korean nuclear progress Suspicions that North Korea has begun to extract plutonium for making nuclear bombs have been heightened by US claims that it has detected a tell-tale...