Brussels, 11 Aug 2006 A report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Directorate-General highlights a new process that could increase the recovery of European oil resources while...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2006 Scientists and vets have traced a cancer that affects dogs around the world back to a single wolf or dog who probably lived in central Asia over 250 years ago. They found that...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2006 As Spain and Portugal battle wildfires which have already razed thousands of hectares of forest to the ground, a researcher has called for better vegetation management to help...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2006 The construction of a European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) has moved a step closer with the creation of a project office to drive the project.. The ELT will have a primary...
Paris, 11 Aug 2006 On 11 August 2006, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2006 Scientists in Italy have devised a way to listen to the noises made by active volcanoes, and to use this information to predict when they might erupt. The seismic data readings...
Fish on Friday
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A New History of German Literature
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the only full-length novel by a playwright: "One afternoon in 1880 Andrey the janitor came into my...
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Europe's ambitious targets mean that research students have 'never had it so good'. Mark Rodgers reports. Young academics will benefit from an unprecedented Europe-wide boom in research jobs,...