Conference watch: August
* The 40th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology will look at animal behaviour. Papers include dogs' social hierarchy in the household and "Friendsheep? Non-...
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Profile: Frans de Waal
Stephen Phillips meets the academic who believes that animals can feel empathy When renowned primatologist Frans de Waal observed chimpanzees literally kissing and making up after fighting he was...
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Today's news
Oxford to end colleges' freedom to pick students Oxford colleges are to lose the right they have enjoyed for 800 years to admit the students they want to teach. Instead, they are to be confined to...
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Revised proposal for a European Institute of Technology is more focused but still lacks clarity, says EuroScience
Brussels, 26 Jul 2006 The reworked proposal by the European Commission on the European Institute of Technology (EIT) is more focused, according to EuroScience, but still fails to provide clarity on...
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Draft Summary Conclusions of the 309th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) Held in Joensuu (Finland) on 5/6 July 2006 (extract)
Brussels, 26 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 1205/06 Suite of documents 1205/06 Subject: DRAFT SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS OF THE 309th MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE (CREST) HELD...
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Latest research news
Nicotine 'sobers up' drunk rats A new study helps to explain why smokers tend to have boozier nights out than non-smokers. The work, done in rats, shows that a heavy dose of nicotine can cut blood-...
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Today's news
Business looks to recruit Chinese students Businesses are turning to MBA students from China because they believe too few British graduates have Chinese language skills, according to a report....
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Seventh Research Framework Programmes - EC and Euratom: Competitiveness Council, 24 July
Brussels, 25 July 2006 47th Council Meeting - Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research). Brussels, 24 July 2006 Provisional version The Council reached, by qualified majority, a...
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WHO IP Working Group To Address Conflicting Interests Before December Meeting, IP Watch says (extract)
Washington, D.C., 25 Jul 2006 An intergovernmental working group on public health and intellectual property, which the World Health Assembly said in May should be set up "immediately," is scheduled...
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Revised Text of the Proposed Council Directive on the Supervision and Control of Shipments of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel (extract)
Brussels, 25 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 11799/06 Suite of documents 11799/06 No. Cion prop: 5058/06 ATO 1 ENV 7 - COM(2005) 673 final Subject: Proposal for a Council Directive on the supervision...
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Full report on Competitiveness Council, 24 July (link)
Brussels, 25 July 2006 47th Council Meeting - Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research). Brussels, 24 July 2006 Provisional version Main Results of the Council The Council reached a...
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Investigating Research - how the Framework Programme works - part 1
Brussels, 25 Jul 2006 Now that the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) is on track to start in early 2007, CORDIS News tracked down some of the people working within the Programme, responsible its...
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German laboratory to map Neanderthal genome
Brussels, 25 Jul 2006 A team of German and US researchers has announced plans to decipher the genetic coding of our closest relative, the Neanderthal, within the next two years. If successful, the...
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Coreper Agenda Entry on the signing of the GNSS cooperation agreement with Korea
Brussels, 25 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 11894/06 Suite of documents 11894/06 PROVISIONAL AGENDA for: 2150th MEETING OF THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE (Part 1) date: Wednesday 26 (10:15)...
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UK government announces plans for new Large Facilities Council
London, 25 July 2006 A new Large Facilities Council will be created by merging the current responsibilities of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) and the Council for the...