Paris, 25 Mar 2003 This 'Zero-G' Airbus A300 parked on the tarmac at Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport is really a laboratory with wings. Within a week a dozen scientific teams will be aboard it as it...
Paris, 25 Mar 2003 Are we alone, or is there life beyond Earth? Has life ever existed on Mars? The European Space Agency (ESA) is now offering scientists a rare opportunity to answer these...
Brussels, 25 Mar 2003 The European Commission is raising the profile of its human resources and mobility initiatives as part of efforts to find the additional 500,000 scientists needed to achieve the...
Oxford top-up fees row Oxford University yesterday paved the way for introducing controversial top-up fees of up to £3,000 a year. Its ruling body rejected a motion opposing the charges drafted by...
Research funding wasted, say MPs Dozens of the best medical scientists are being starved of money because the government's funding body prefers to support speculative projects that may never help...
Brussels, 24 March 2003 In order to achieve the objective of raising Europe's investment in research to 3% of gross domestic product (GDP), as decided at the Barcelona European Council meeting in...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 Full text of Document 223/03 Subject: Third meeting of the COST Strategy Issues Group (SIG) held in Brussels on 7 March 2003 1. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA The Group adopted the...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 Farm animals produce around 22% of global emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. But Belgian scientists found a drop of fish oil in animal fodder could nearly halve that...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 March is shaping up to be a big month for UK research. Officials announced the opening of new research centres to tackle two pressing subjects facing European scientists in the...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 Ongoing coordinated scientific and innovative action is essential to tackling the global water crisis. This is just one of the conclusions from a recently published Commission...
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 European scientists have recently developed a new method for studying gene mutations, which could lead to better understanding and treatment of childhood leukemias in humans....
Brussels, 24 Mar 2003 The eighth international conference on intelligence in next generation networks will take place from 31 March to 3 April in Bordeaux, France. Co organised by the association for...
Europe's biggest university stops for the war The Academic Senate of Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's largest university with 160,000 students, suspended teaching today for "reflection and...
Research funding wasted, say MPs Dozens of the best medical scientists are being starved of money because the government's funding body prefers to support speculative projects that may never help...
Bruxelles, le 21 mars 2003 Medium-term growth performance in Europe depends on tapping new sources of growth. Efficient and increasing public and private investment in all areas of the knowledge...