Brussels, Jan 2006 Academia Europaea will run an international symposium on quality assessment in institutions of higher education in Pavia, Italy, from 23 to 25 March. The conference will deliver an...
Brussels, Jan 2006 During the last four years the European Commission has successfully supported the creation of an EU-wide network of national, European and international players engaged in...
Brussels, Jan 2006 At a conference in Brussels last week, Jan Bosch, a board member of the Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) Technology Platform, which proposes to aid...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Molecular motor based on redox reactions A single molecule working as the nano scale version of the steam engine: that's the molecular motor developed by a group of UT scientists...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Let a micro droplet dance, and the electric charge on the droplet can be regulated very accurately. During this 'spontaneous oscillation', the droplet touches an electrode...
Washington, Jan 2006 A preliminary decision by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel on the U.S. challenge of the European Union (EU) moratorium on approvals for crops derived from biotechnology is...
Paris, Jan 2006 Animated diagram of leaf area index An ambitious ESA project to chart ten years in the life of the Earth's vegetation has reached a midway point, with participants and end-users...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 203/06 Suite of documents 203/06 Delegations will find attached a proposal from the COST Office on the "Open Call and Selection Criteria for new COST Actions...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 204/06 Suite of documents 204/06 To: COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Subject: JAF meeting 15/16 February 2006, agenda item 10 - A new COST Instrument...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 5/1/05 Revision 01 Suite of documents 5/1/05 Subject: Participation of non-COST countries and International/European bodies in COST Actions Delegations will...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 312/05 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 312/05 Item 15, Any Other Business, p. 8: "The Group agreed to the intention of the Austrian representative, Dr Mieling...
Man questioned over murder of cot death researcher Detectives were yesterday questioning a man over the murder of a scientist who was found stabbed 49 times and strangled with her own sweater at her...
De La Mettrie's Ghost
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an epistolary novel by a much-televised writer: "My dear brother, I can no longer refuse myself the...
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