Washington D.C., 13 August 2002 The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today that it has launched a Critical Technology Assessment of Biotechnology in U.S. Industry. The assessment, to be based on...
Brussels, 13 August 2002 As parts of Europe suffers its worst floods in decades, European leaders heading for this month's Earth Summit in South Africa will be urged to help developing countries...
Brussels, 13 August 2002 The decision by the UK's Cambridge university to place restrictions on its researchers' intellectual property rights may set a precedent which affects the researchers' work...
Ten numbers that can trace your family tree An Oxford University spin-off company is to launch a service that will enable the public to trace their ancestors by typing DNA code into the...
Minister defends exam standards Critics of rising A-level pass rates are today branded elitist and incoherent in the first signs of a government fightback on standards ahead of record-breaking...
Ispra, Italy, 9 August 2002 Reliable data on the change in forest cover for the humid tropics help reduce the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon fluxes to and from the atmosphere, which is...
Brussels, 12 August 2002 Italian scientists in collaboration with US scientists have discovered the genetic cause of one of the most common types of muscular dystrophy. Facioscapulohumeral muscular...
Paris, 12 August 2002 Some 36,000 kilometres above the coast of West Africa, a new satellite will soon take up a geo-stationary orbit, and train its powerful imager on the continents below. This is...
Brussels, 12 August 2002 Academic institutions in the UK and Denmark are collaborating with Pakistani counterparts under the ASIA IT&C scheme to help create the Pakistan Virtual University (...
Brussels, 12 August 2002 Following recent media stories analysing the possibility of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2019, a Spanish company has revealed that it is working with the European space...
Scottish exam pass rate drops by 2% An inquiry was under way today after it emerged that the number of youngsters passing exams in Scotland has fallen this year. Today's publication of the Higher...
Brussels, 09 August 2002 A Thematic network formed under the EU's Fifth Framework programme (FP5) is being used to identify medium and long term research needs and ultimately initiate the creation of...
Brussels, 09 August 2002 Maintaining wild places as natural environments brings higher financial gains than developing them, according to new research carried out by UK and US researchers. The...
Brussels, 09 August 2002 Information on national e-commerce legislation in the 15 EU Member States has been made available at a single location free of charge through a project supported by the...
Brussels, 09 August 2002 An international conference on alternatives to animal testing in biomedical research will take place in New Orleans, USA on 11 to 15 August. The event will focus on the '3Rs...