Brussels, 07 Apr 2003 Renowned thinkers and researchers in the areas of philosophy, science and the arts have called for an 'international ethical, political and scientific collegium' to assess...
Clarke tells Oxbridge to shake off Brideshead image Oxford and Cambridge universities need to shed their " Brideshead Revisited " image and make it clear they are open to people from all walks of...
Germans give English le coup de grâce Linguists in Germany yesterday called on the nation to use French words in place of their popular English equivalents in protest at the US-led war...
Brussels, 04 Apr 2003 Candidate countries remain optimistic about science, despite a lack of information and knowledge as well as poor career prospects for scientists, claims the candidate countries...
Geneva, 04 Apr 2003 Document prepared by the International Bureau Full text BACKGROUND 1. At its third session, the Working Group agreed that, in order to facilitate the processing of sequence...
Geneva, 04 Apr 2003 Document prepared by the Secretariat Full text I. OVERVIEW 1. This document provides updated input into the work of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and...
Brussels, 4 April 2003 The Commission today launched €13 million worth of "specific support actions" to stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation of the 13 Associated Candidate Countries...
Brussels, 04 Apr 2003 The UK government must invest more on energy research if it is to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent over the next fifty years - the goal outlined by the government in...
Paris, 04 Apr 2003 The skies above France fell quiet on Thursday due to a national air traffic controllers' strike. Hearing of it the night before, some microgravity experimenters worried the 34th...
Brussels, 04 Apr 2003 To successfully develop the right kind of technologies for road safety, an integrated approach that takes into account the driver, the vehicle and the road infrastructure is...
Paris, 04 Apr 2003 On Monday 7 April, in Budapest, H.E. Mr Kálmán Kovács, Hungarian Minister of Informatics, and Mr Jean-Pol Poncelet, ESA Director of Strategy and External Relations, on behalf of...
Brussels, 4 April 2003 A roundtable meeting to examine the latest research results on the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops will be hosted by the European Commission on Thursday 24 April. A wide...
Brussels, 04 Apr 2003 More than 200 European and national members of parliament have signed a petition, addressed to the Council and European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and European...
Africa's great apes face extinction In a study published on the online version of the journal Nature, s cientists from Princeton University say that more than half of Africa's chimpanzees and...
Hong-Kong conference postponed due to SARS risk The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong has forced organisers of this June's conference of the International Council on Distance...