Paris, 01 March 2002 Astronomers from ESA's Member States are preparing to take part in a French-led mission to be the first to search for rocky planets around other stars. The mission, COROT, is an...
Paris, 01 March 2002 The eagerly awaited launch of ESA’s Envisat environmental monitoring satellite took place in Kourou, French Guiana, today at 22:07:59 hrs Kourou time (02:07:59 hrs CET). Envisat’...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 A survey published by the European Commission has found that academia favours the protection of scientific results when they are first published, before a patent has been...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 Germany will provide 450 million euro for the development phase of Galileo, Europe's navigation satellite, announced Kurt Bodewig, Germany's Federal Minister for transport,...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 As part of a move to increase its cooperation with international scientific communities, China is considering opening up two of its national research programmes to the...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 A new scientific information service (SIS) on advanced alternative methods in biomedical sciences has been made available on the Internet by the European Commission's Joint...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 The third annual conference on 'best practices of science and technology' will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on 29 to 31 May. The event will look at technology transfer...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 Concentrating a broad array of instruments on a single platform and integrating continuous streams of data in real time, ENVISAT opens exciting opportunities for new products...
Teachers offered excellence fellowships More than 100 school and college teachers will be going back to university as part of a scheme aimed at widening participation in higher education. Some 30...
Starkey makes history with £2m TV deal Historian David Starkey yesterday became the unlikeliest resident of stellar street. The ebullient academic, who has admitted to being the rudest man on...
Tired of indifferent, unanalytical history textbooks? Jeremy Black opts for surprising alternatives that first appeared in 1902 - the Cambridge Histories. Textbooks. We all think we know what they...
Language scholar David Crystal takes delight in watching words evolve. David Crystal is an independent scholar who edits reference books and writes about his passion, language, from a big old house...
Michael Alexander on revising a literary classic. "Beowulf" Reduced There once was a hero called Scyld Whose descendant decided to build A magnificent hall With seating for all, But some of his best...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 The European Commission has published a survey on the effects of the dilemma that scientists said they faced when faced by scientists when they want to publish their...
Brussels, 28 February 2002 Common position adopted by the Council on 14 February 2002 with a view to the adoption of a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council...