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Top science departments lure most commercial labs Top university departments are acting as honeypots to overseas firms setting up research and development labs, a study published today shows....
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Are near-death experiences a dream? People who have had near-death experiences are more likely to mix up dreams and reality than those who have not, researchers say. At times of extreme danger or...
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European Space Agency Team Happy with Venus Express Orbit Around the Hothouse Planet
Paris, 11 Apr 2006 Europe scores new planetary success: Venus Express enters orbit around the Hothouse Planet This morning, at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner Solar...
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Scientific committee for limits on occupational exposure to chemical agents set up (OJ link)
Brussels, 11 April 2006 Commission Decision of 10 April 2006 amending Decision 95/320/EC setting up a Scientific Committee for Occupational Exposure Limits to Chemical Agents (OJ L101/4 11.4.2006)....
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Coreper Agenda Entry on the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and other Scientific Purposes
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 8328/06 Suite of documents 8328/06 8. Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Community with...
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Finalised Text of Decision on the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement with Switzerland (link)
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 7911/06 Suite of documents 7911/06 Subject: Decision of the Council and of the Commission on the conclusion on behalf of the European Community and of the...
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Draft Opinion on Nanosciences and nanotechnologies: An action plan for Europe 2005-2009 (link)
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 PROVISIONAL 2006/2004(INI) 10.4.2006 DRAFT OPINION of the Committee on Legal Affairs for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on Nanosciences and nanotechnologies: An...
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Report calls for generic medicines boost
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 A new report from researchers at the Catholic University of Leuven has recommended a strengthening of the generic pharmaceuticals market, which could reduce the costs for EU...
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Raising awareness of nano-bio-technology and its ethical issues
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 Any new technology brings both risks and benefits, and with them, public concern as well as demand. Scientists and policy-makers need to address public fears if they wish to...
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New European award for science and computing
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 The UK's Royal Society and France's Académie des Science, with support from Microsoft, have launched a new award recognising European scientists who have made a major...
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Forum on Financing innovation and competitiveness -- 11 May, Marseilles
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 A forum on financing innovation and competitiveness will take place on 11 May in Marseilles, France. The event will have something for a variety of players. Innovative small and...
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Conference on Structural durability in railway engineering -- 16/17 May, Darmstadt, Germany
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 The fourth Fraunhofer LBF meeting on structural durability in railway engineering will take place on 16 and 17 of May in Darmstadt, Germany. The conference will cover modern...
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Rules of Procedure for a COST Domain Committee (link)
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 236/06 Suite of documents 236/06 Delegations will find attached the model of the "Rules of Procedure for a COST Domain Committee" as approved by the CSO at...
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Terms of Reference for a Mandate of a COST Domain Committee in the Field of Transport and Urban Development (link)
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 245/06 Suite of documents 245/06 [...] [Public Info Net automatically generates links to Council Register documents where an appropriately formatted...
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Terms of Reference for a Mandate of a COST Domain Committee in the Field of Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (link)
Brussels, 11 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 237/06 Suite of documents 237/06 [...] [Public Info Net automatically generates links to Council Register documents where an appropriately formatted...