Brussels, 3 March 2005 Advances in material science - which studies the structure, properties and performance of the materials all around us - are crucial to Europe’s leadership in the...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 A project to create a common platform for researchers working in the field of 'biological crystallography' is underway thanks to EU funding via the Sixth Framework Programme (...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 A successful Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project has developed a novel system that provides real-time, intelligent, end-to-end tracking and tracing for items and parcels...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 The Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project ECOSTAR has drawn up a roadmap for making solar electricity competitive, citing research results indicating that the cost of creating...
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 A workshop on negotiating contracts for the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Cambridge, the UK, on 5 April. The aim of the event is to provide an overview of...
Paris, 03 Mar 2005 Preparations for the arrival of "Jules Verne", the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), and those for ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori's mission, took a step forward when...
Washington, 03 Mar 2005 Purdue University Press release, February 28, 2005 Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires' WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. â€" Researchers at Purdue...
Mutiny at Oxford? The oldest university in the English-speaking world is undergoing a revolution at the hands of a New Zealander - or it will if he has his way. Last week Dr John Hood, the new vice-...
Deian Hopkin shadows Dixons boss John Clare and benefits from a little knowledge transfer November 18, 2004 John Clare, chief executive of Dixons, sounds a warning on the prospects for Christmas and...
With the UK academy still reluctant to give recognition to black academics and black studies, Mandy Garner asked a group of academics why change has been so slow in coming and how things might be...
Mark Christian, who has left for the US, argues that the UK's lack of a multicultural curriculum has caused an exodus The British higher education system still has some way to go before it is...
Theorist Michael Hardt may be one of the Left's latest academic poster boys, but Rob Singh is unimpressed In the world of Michael Hardt and his co-author Antonio Negri, the glass is neither half full...
He may serve one more term, but when Labour's leader finally does step down, will he leave much of a legacy? Huw Richards asks Tony Giddens and Helena Kennedy in a preview to the first in a series of...
Brussels, 02 Mar 2005 Europe's renewable energy community has become the latest group to lobby for increased research and development (R&D) funding in the next EU research programme, the...
Brussels, 02 Mar 2005 French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for efforts to improve the security of laboratories working with potentially dangerous substances, as well as an...