Paris, 07 Mar 2006 The life of Venetians is strictly connected to the sea-level, which is one of the reasons why Venice was chosen to host the international symposium "15 Years of Progress in Radar...
Cambridge trims exams over strike Cambridge University is introducing emergency measures to award students degrees without requiring them to sit all their exams. The move is an attempt to thwart...
Brussels, 06 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 217/06 Suite of documents 217/06 Delegations will find attached recommendations and decisions of the JAF Group following its meeting on 15/16 February 2006...
Brussels, 06 Mar 2006 For years patient groups have criticised pharmaceutical companies for failing to invest in the development of drugs for rare diseases. But it appears that of those drugs created...
Brussels, 06 Mar 2006 One of the paradoxes of the global warming phenomenon will be an increase in the number of dry and cold winters in Europe, according to an advanced climate model developed by...
Race inquiry into lecturer who says blacks are less intelligent The Commission for Racial Equality has stepped into a row over a university lecturer who claims that black people are, on average, less...
Paris, 1 March 2006 Full text [...] PREFACE These Guidelines offer principles and best practices for the licensing of genetic inventions used in human health care. They are targeted at all those...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2006 The European Commission today authorised the placing on the market of genetically modified maize line 1507 for use as food and food ingredients. The authorisation means that...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2006 Full text Biotech maize 1507 is genetically modified with the Bt trait to make it resistant to certain insect pests (in Europe these typically include Ostrinia nubilalis,...
Brussels, 3 March 2006 Commission Decision of 2 March 2006 amending Decision 2006/135/EC as regarding the establishment of areas A and B in France due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian...
Paris, 03 Mar 2006 The heads of space agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2 March 2006, to review International Space Station (...
Paris, 03 Mar 2006 Astronomers have witnessed a never-seen-before event in observations by ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft - a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighbouring star. The...
Paris, 03 Mar 2006 Photograph: Titan's complex atmosphere Data from ESA's Huygens probe have been used to validate a new model of the evolution of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, showing that its...
Paris, 03 Mar 2006 Satellite measurements of a steep difference in sea surface height between the western and eastern tropical Pacific support predictions that a La Niña event is in the...
Paris, 03 Mar 2006 The technology used in space suits to protect astronauts carrying out space walks in direct sunlight is now being used to develop protective clothing to safeguard firefighters and...