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  1. EMBO's fellowship of the molecular biologists

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 Thanks to a moderate hike in its budget, the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) will be able to expand its fellowship and 'science and society' actions to non-EU...

  2. Workshop promotes joint EU-China participation in FP6

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A workshop on the scientific, technological and societal aspects of multifunctional materials in Bologna, Italy highlighted growing research collaboration between the EU and...

  3. Natural whey to produce packaging plastics

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 Dairy industry waste is a potential source of biologically-produced polymers with commercial applications in packaging. WHEYPOL is seeking a cost-effective method to tap this...

  5. From the information society to the knowledge society

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 The European Commission is funding an Integrated Project that aims to revolutionise the way in which information is stored and accessed, leading to the creation of a knowledge...

  6. The efficient management of production cycles

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A conference on process automation and control for the efficient management of production cycles will take place at the Milan Fair in Italy on 14 and 15 September. The event...

  7. New Member States at ESA

    Paris, 25 Mar 2004 In the course of its meeting in Kiruna (Sweden) on 24 and 25 March, the ESA Council approved the accession of Greece and Luxembourg to the ESA Convention. The two countries are...

  9. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a love story twice adapted for the opera: "I must begin by taking my reader back to the time in my...

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  12. Do you believe in 'zombies'?

    How could conscious experiences affect brains? The simple answer is that they could not and do not. Yet we feel as though they do. This clash between the way things seem and the way they rationally...

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  13. Thick on plot, but a little thin on theory

    Multiple-choice question. Is this book: (a) "witty and ingenious"; (b) "ecstatically playful"; (c) too clever by half? Going for the third option puts me firmly into the philistine camp, opposed to...

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