Oxford University's colleges have rushed to beef up their equal opportunities policies after an expensive out-of-court settlement of an unfair dismissal case in which Keble College was accused of...
Andrew Parker and Helen White-Cooper hope to create the next big thing in optical engineering with the help of £100,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The Oxford...
Paris, 11 Aug 2005 Seven member countries of the OECD's Global Science Forum have launched a project to promote international collaboration among scientists and create new ways of sharing and...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 Seven countries are to launch an international neuroinformatics coordinating facility (INCF) under the umbrella of the Global Science Forum of the Organisation for Economic...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 The European Commission's Enterprise and Industry DG has published a call for tenders for a study on the specific policy needs for information and communication technologies (...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 The Kyoto Protocol calls for a phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) – implicated in ozone depletion – which are used in various industrial, commercial and household...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 Most current research into offshore renewable energy options fails to take sufficient account of the ecological implications, according to a major new review published in the...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 An international trade fair and congress for renewable energy climate protection projects and emissions trading, 'INTERCARBON 2005', will take place in Augsburg, Germany, from...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 The Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), together with the Directorate General for Environment, is helping Member States to control forest fires by forecasting risks...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 A new method developed by an international team of biomedical engineers has proved for the first time that it is possible to grow healthy new bone in one part of the body and...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 Six European countries are to launch a call for tenders for systems biology and microorganisms, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research has announced. Projects...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2005 The 19th International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), 'MIE2005', will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 28 August to 1 September...
Paris, 11 Aug 2005 Photos Heavy rainfall and flooding from Typhoon Matsa killed at least 12 people and caused millions of euros worth of damage in China. In Matsa's aftermath, unique data from ESA's...
Paris, 11 Aug 2005 Thanks to measurements by ESA's Cluster mission, a team of European scientists have identified 'micro'-vortices in Earth's magnetosphere. Such small-scale vortex turbulence, whose...
Paris, 11 Aug 2005 This morning an Ariane 5G launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. On board was the largest telecommunications satellite ever to be placed into geostationary...