Brussels, 29 March 2002 A conference on the 'Substitution of hazardous chemicals in products and processes,' supported by the European Commission's Environment and Health and Consumer Protection DGs...
Brussels, 29 March 2002 European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST - Secretariat. Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a concerted European...
Public's expectation of science unrealistic The British public holds unrealistic and simplified expectations of science, a survey out today shows. The Mori poll for the new Science Media Centre at...
Brussels, 28 March 2002 PC (personal computer), Internet and mobile phone use continues to grow in Europe, according to figures released by the EU's statistical office, Eurostat, on the basis of...
Brussels, 28 March 2002 An EU-funded contest for young scientists. which aims to boost the European research area (ERA) by promoting cooperation and interchange among future generations of scientists...
Brussels, 28 March 2002 A team of researchers from Germany, the UK and Australia have found that climate change is already affecting the development of plants and animals. The scientists, who are...
Brussels, 28 March 2002 The Environment DG of the European Commission has issued a call for tenders for a study contract to explore the long-term effects of carbon dioxide capture and underground...
Brussels, 28 March 2002 The Environment DG of the European Commission has issued a call for tenders for a study contract on the consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) by laboratories in the...
Brussels, 28 March 2002 The European Commission has announced it will contribute 1.6 million euro to a cyber tracker monitoring programme for 30 protected areas in Africa and Latin America. The...
Paris, 28 March 2002 A major new health check on the Earth got under way on 1 March, when the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in...
Gunther von Hagens Professor of anatomy, Dalian Medical University, China, and inventor of plastination Representatives of the British anatomical establishment have accused my exhibition Body Worlds...
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS Commission for Racial Equality Jagdish Gundara , UNESCO chair in international studies and teacher education and head of the international centre for intercultural studies...
£20m mall unveiled by Queen The Queen was this afternoon opening the £20 million Medway mall project being pioneered by Greenwich and Kent universities at Chatham. The eventual aim is to create a...
Debt worries force students to opt for OU More young people are choosing to study at the Open University rather than traditional universities because of fear of debt. One in 12...
It is not an exaggeration to describe César Milstein's contribution to science and medicine as the most important immunological advance of the century. His discovery of the method to produce...