Ariane 5 launches heavy load
Paris, July 18, 2004 Early this morning (CEST), an Ariane 5G lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. On board was the largest telecommunications satellite ever launched. The...
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Aurora participants approve preparatory phase for European Space Exploration Programme
Paris, 19 Jul 2004 At the last meeting of the Aurora Board of Participants, held at ESA's Paris headquarters on Thursday 8 July, the participating states approved the Preparatory Phase of the...
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Agreement on Greece's accession to the ESA Convention signed
Paris, 19 Jul 2004 Today Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Mr Dimitris Sioufas, Minister for Development, signed the Agreement on Greece's accession to the ESA Convention, at the...
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Obesity wonder drug could be an apparition When British scientist Stephen Bloom of Imperial College London announced two years ago that his team had developed a drug that could potentially cure...
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EU project develops monitoring system to improve fish freshness
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 A EU-funded project has developed improved monitoring techniques to measure the freshness of fish, with the aim of improving the quality of fish available to consumers....
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EU funds integrated project on mitosis
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 Leading scientists from Austria, Germany, Italy, France and the UK have joined forces to tackle the fundamental issue of cell division. Funded under the EU's Sixth Framework...
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Ammonia on Mars could point to life
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 Europe's Mars Express spacecraft may have detected ammonia in the atmosphere around the Red Planet; a sign that some scientists believe could point to the existence of life....
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Conference on renewable energy sources and the rational use of energy for islands
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 A conference on renewable energy sources (RES) and the rational use of energy (RUE) for islands, entitled 'RES for island', will take place in Larnaka, Cyprus, on 30 and 31...
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Gene therapy conference, Finland
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 The European society of gene therapy (ESGT) will hold its 12th annual congress in Tampere, Finland from 4 to 7 November. The aim of the conference is to discuss the potential...
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International conference on intelligent systems for molecular biology, Scotland
Brussels, 16 Jul 2004 An international conference on intelligent systems for molecular biology will be held in Glasgow, UK, from 31 July to 4 August. This conference will have the broadest scope of...
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Space researchers gather in Paris
Paris, 16 Jul 2004 At the invitation of ESA and CNES, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is holding its 35th Scientific Assembly in Paris from 19 to 25 July. As happens every two years,...
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Experiencing zero-g
Paris, 16 Jul 2004 Team 1097 - Aberdeen University Despite having our reservations about flying on the 13th, we were about to let our superstitions get the better of us. After overcoming the initial...
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10-year plan poses threat to autonomy
Universities will have to give the Government a year's notice before closing struggling departments, the Treasury announced this week as part of its long-awaited ten-year investment plan for science...
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Be careful, this really happened to my sister's friend's boyfriend...
Heard the one about the student who bought an essay and handed it in as his own, only to find it had been written by his tutor 20 years earlier? His tutor gave the paper top marks, commenting: "My...
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In the news: Sir Tony Atkinson
Sir Tony Atkinson, warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, releases the interim report of his review into the measurement of public sector output and productivity on Monday. The review, commissioned in...