Classroom science in a whole new light
Brussels, 24 Sep 2002 University science professors in the USA have come up with an inventive way to liven up lessons - by showing their students how to transmit electric signals at least four times...
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Strong link between climate change and cholera outbreaks
Brussels, 24 Sep 2002 The link between climate change and cholera is three times as strong as first thought, according to researchers in Spain, Bangladesh and the USA. The relationship between...
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European Commission inaugurates a laboratory to foster innovative solutions for nuclear waste management on 25 Sep
Brussels, 24 Sep 2002 Full text [...] Some of the long-lived elements contained in spent fuel from reactors maintain a high level of radiotoxicity over very long time periods. This is why many...
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Council ready to adopt decisions giving guidance on sale of products containing GMOs
Brussels, 24 September 2002 Full text of Document 12082/02 20 September 2002 Adoption of Council Decisions: ­ establishing, pursuant to Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of...
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Cross-border movement of GMOs (codecision, proposal approved with amendments)
Strasbourg, 24 Sep 2002 Jonas SJÖSTEDT (EUL/NGL, S) Report on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council regulation on the transboundary movement of genetically modified organisms ( COM(2002...
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European Commission carries out research towards preventing the occurrence of osteoporosis
Brussels, 24 Sep 2002 Full text [...] The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements) is working with the project partners* to evaluate a novel...
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Avoiding the fate of the dinosaurs
Paris, 24 Sep 2002 Tales of asteroids or comets in a collision course with the Earth are always good to fill space in newspapers during the quiet summer months. Is there any truth in these tales of...
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QCA boss quizzed at A-level inquiry Sir William Stubbs, chairman of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, was today giving his side of the story to the inquiry into allegations that it...
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Today's news
Students fight call to attend lectures More than 1,000 students at East Anglia University have signed a petition protesting against new recruits being told to begin lectures during freshers’ week....
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Agenda, Friends of the Presidency Group (Food Safety/GMOs), 26/27 Sep.
Copenhagen, 23 Sep 2002 DATE: 26 and September 2002 TIME: 9.30 VENUE: Council Secretariat JUSTUS LIPSIUS BUILDING Rue de la Loi 175, 1048 BRUSSELS 1. Proposal for a Regulation of the European...
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MEPs meet Russian aerospace experts to discuss EU-Russian relations
Brussels, 23 Sep 2002 The European Parliament's sky and space intergroup will meet on 25 September in Strasbourg, France, to discuss relations between the EU and Russia. This will be the first time...
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ESA hunts down transmitters of radio signals in the Galileo frequency
Brussels, 23 Sep 2002 The European space agency (ESA) has spent the summer tracking down radio signals broadcast in the same frequency that Galileo, Europe's satellite navigation system, will use....
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Today's news
No cash for extra students after A-level debacle Universities will not receive extra money for taking on additional students caught in the A-level re-grading debacle, the Department for...
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Latest research news
California allows stem-cell research California has adopted a law that opens the state’s doors to stem-cell researchers, in a move that runs contrary to White House policy. (Guardian) Research link...
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COST research action on high pressure tuning of chemical and biochemical processes
Brussels, 23 September 2002 Full text of Document 260/02 20 September 2002 Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action D30 "...