Washington, 12 Jun 2003 Scientists from the United States, Ethiopia and several other countries have uncovered fossils of the earliest modern human, Homo sapiens -- filling a major gap in the human...
Brussels, 12 Jun 2003 The European Commissioners responsible for the Environment, Public Health and Research have unveiled a new strategy that will examine the link between health problems and...
Brussels, 12 Jun 2003 A nano forum aimed at examining the present situation in the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies in Europe will take place from 9 to 12 December in Trieste, Italy....
Paris, 12 Jun 2003 Philippe BUSQUIN, European Commissioner responsible for research and space Antonio RODOTÀ, Director General, European Space Agency Claudie HAIGNERÉ, Minister for research and new...
Brussels, 12 Jun 2003 Innovation is running ahead of regulation, claimed UK MEP Caroline Lucas at the first ever international seminar on the societal impacts of nanotechnology, held at the European...
Brussels, 12 June 2003 The Supervisory Board of the Galileo's Joint Undertaking has decided today to design Mr Rainer GROHE as Executive Director. "This is a new step ahead for the project Galileo"...
Bruxelles, le 12 juin 2003 Mesdames et Messieurs, A Lisbonne au mois de mars 2000, les chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement ont défini une ambition pour l'Union: devenir la société de connaissance la plus...
Paris, 12 Jun 2003 This Conference is part of the broader project on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Economic Performance launched under the aegis of the OECD Committee for Scientific...
12 June 2003 In the school year 2000-2001, 71% of 18-year-olds living in the European Union were still in the education system 1 . The proportion who remained in education was highest in Sweden (95...
Risk aversion is not something that comes naturally to Glenn Crocker, the newly appointed chief executive of the UK's largest bioscience and healthcare innovation centre. Dr Crocker joined BioCity...
Europe's largest underground physics laboratory, housed in three chambers in the Gran Sasso mountains of central Italy, has been closed by a court order after complaints from environmentalists after...
Academics should take individual action to frustrate the renewal of Israel's membership of the European Union's biggest research programme, the professor at the centre of last summer's boycott row...
Baghdad museum gets back looted vase The vase of Warka, one of the most treasured pieces looted from the Baghdad Museum during the war on Iraq, was returned yesterday. The coalition...
Medical school policy must be reviewed amid evidence that students with religious objections to abortion are being coerced into taking part in terminations, the British Medical Association heard last...
Oxford University is expected to announce its new vice-chancellor in the next two weeks, taking the academic world by surprise as the nominating committee had until September. Interviews are...