Brussels, 29 Apr 2003 Wood mice are as clever as humans when it comes to finding their way around, claims a recent study published in the BioMed central journal on ecology. Pavel Stopka and David...
'Malaria worse than Sars' Malaria in the poorest parts of Africa is a far greater tragedy than Sars could ever be, health campaigners have said. They are calling on governments to step up the fight...
Brussels, 28 Apr 2003 The presence of some of Europe's leading stem cell researchers at the inter-institutional seminar on bioethics in Brussels on 24 April served an important dual purpose. As...
Brussels, 28 Apr 2003 Report on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research French English German Executive Summary in Dutch Webcast of seminar (held 24 April) DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/...
Brussels, 28 Apr 2003 A seminar focusing on the proposal and contractual procedures of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place on and 28 May in Istanbul, Turkey. The main objective of the...
Brussels, 28 Apr 2003 The European aerospace industry has agreed on a set of guidelines for customer-supplier relationships, one of which calls for the creation of a common research and development...
Brussels, 28 Apr 2003 At a meeting of the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup, guest speaker and EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin claimed that a consolidated approach to space...
Brussels, 28 Apr 2003 MEP Bob van den Bos will host a seminar on alternatives to animal testing at the European Parliament in Brussels on 7 May. The main speaker at the event will be Professor...
Paris, 28 Apr 2003 Meeting at the Agency's headquarters in Paris, the ESA Council appointed Mr Antonio Fabrizi, an Italian, to the post of Director of Launchers, for a four-year term. Antonio Fabrizi...
University of Babylon ready to reopen The University of Babylon expects to be fully operational by next week, according to officials. Up to 3,000 of its students, almost half its total number, had...
Colleges seek new ILAs As the £100 million scandal of the individual learning accounts scheme came in for further damning criticism last week, colleges have said that they want to see a better...
Brussels, 25 Apr 2003 Dutch and Swedish researchers have found that since the introduction of mammography screening services, deaths from breast cancer have reduced considerably. A Swedish study, led...
Brussels, 25 Apr 2003 An international conference on the 'abatement of groundwater contamination in urban areas' will take place on 25 and 26 June in Stuttgart, Germany. The main aim of the event is...
Paris, 25 Apr 2003 With its casinos and neon lights, Las Vegas may be the Glitter Capital of the world, but two ESA radar images of the city have come together in another kind of glitter showcase. In...
Brussels, 25 Apr 2003 In the context of an inter-institutional seminar on bio-ethics, MEPs, eminent scientists and representatives of Member States and accession countries debated the question of...