We should indeed, as Richard ffrench-Constant suggests (see "UK risks patent foul-up"), be learning from Warf, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The first lesson is that we have a lot of...
Wales's federal university is under attack on two fronts. Members of the National Assembly are sceptical about the federal structure, regarding it as expensive and counterproductive, while Cardiff...
Keith Thomson believes that there are too many museums and that they cost too much money. The answer, he tells Caroline Davis, is a clear out and a decent business plan. Keith Thomson, director of...
Soccer fan Steve Braunias is tackling the literature of the beautiful game on an Oxford fellowship. Huw Richards reports It would be possible to start a lively debate as to which of "football...
Science has entered the realm of motion - scholarly analyses of the forces, angles and vectors of what many of us came to appreciate as "natural" playground moves are rife throughout British...
There can be no doubting the popularity of sports science as a subject to study at undergraduate level in Britain. Many are interested in it because of its multidisciplinary nature. Unfortunately,...
Geoff Watts asks whether the Wellcome Trust should have paid nearly £2 million for Francis Crick's papers and ponders the impact of email on the future of archives. The alarm was sounded about six...
Two of the United Kingdom's biggest cancer charities are to merge next month. Tony Durham looks at the benefits. Next month a giant new cancer charity, Cancer Research UK, will arise from the merger...
Brussels, 8 January 2002 European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. 146th Meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST)....
Brussels, 8 January 2002 Economic integration of urban consumers' demand and rural forestry production Draft Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a concerted European research action...
Draft summary conclusions of the 280th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2001. Note to CREST delegations. Brussels, 21...
Brussels, 09 January 2002 Nobel laureate professor Sir Harold Kroto has called for better communication between scientists and the public and urged scientists to make better use of the Internet to...
Ispra, 9 January 2002 Cybercrime website. The EU Forum on Cybercrime provides a platform for discussion and co-operation between law enforcement agencies, Internet Service Providers,...
Brussels, 09 January 2002 The European Commission's Information Society DG has published a prior information notice of open calls for tenders in 2002. During the course of 2002, the Information...
Brussels, 09 January 2002 Leading European and US astronomers will meet in London on 11 January 2002 to discuss an ambitious European space agency (ESA) mission to find Earth-like planets and examine...