Brussels, 20 Dec 2005 The UK's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published a report on research priorities relating to the possible risks posed by nanotechnology The...
Brussels, 20 Dec 2005 The Beagle 2 probe, part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, was designed to search for signs of life on the surface of the Red Planet. However, ever since it...
Brussels, 20 Dec 2005 The European Commission has published a call for proposals to gather nominations for the 2006 René Descartes Prizes, under the Sixth Framework Programme's 'Science...
Brussels, 20 Dec 2005 A workshop on web tools for EU research projects will take place in Cambridge, UK, on 7 February 2006. Organised by Single Image Ltd., this one day workshop is aimed at training...
Paris, 20 Dec 2005 This week's launch of MSG-2 will ensure that satellite images continue to be available to European weather forecasters well into the next decade. It also marks a new chapter in a...
Paris, 20 Dec 2005 An international team worked on the verge of the Sahara to gather data on the ground and in the air, to be compared with imagery of the same region acquired by ESA satellites. The...
Washington, 20 Dec 2005 NASA Press release, December 19, 2005 Release 05-550 NASA is preparing to launch the first spacecraft to distant Pluto and its moon Charon. The January 2006 launch of New...
Universities 'failing' on staff-student policies Half of universities are failing to publish policies on staff-student relationships and could be leaving their employees and students vulnerable to...
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Brussels, 14 December 2005 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the seventh framework...
Brussels, 19 Dec 2005 The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Pasteur has announced that preliminary results of clinical trials of an candidate H5N1 pre-pandemic influenza vaccine demonstrated a...
Brussels, 19 Dec 2005 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, commonly known...
London, 19 December 2005 Funding and grants Information and Application Pack Independent Assessors for DTI Energy Programmes Advert INTRODUCTION The DTI wish to appoint a panel of independent...
Come to Dundee, as seen on TV The University of Dundee has become the darling of the advertising industry - the first time any higher education institution in the UK has found itself with such...
Brussels, 16 Dec 2005 According to the authors of a new report on the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), the programme was a success, with high levels of goal attainment and impacts in terms of...