The Vulture and the Husbandman - by Arthur Clement Hilton (writing as Louisa Caroline) The rain was raining cheerfully, As if it had been May; The Senate-House appeared inside Unusually gay; And this...
If you need green ink for that grant application form, if you want to contract undergraduate teaching to Mumbai, if your department requires morris dancers-in-residence, or if your cat needs welding...
Only fools and frauds claim to have been abducted by aliens. Right? Wrong, says Susan Clancy, who finds that even eminent professors believe they have fallen foul of ET Everyone knows how it happens...
Alan Wilkinson goes off-road to track down the wife of Kerouac's 'Muse' A shaft of afternoon sunlight filters through the trees, illuminating a thin film of dust on the coffee-table. My host tuts. "I...
Number 15: The redundant nuns of Jesus College, Cambridge Hidden in the fabric of Jesus College, Cambridge, is a story of ambition, heartless expropriation, academics and nuns. In the late 15th...
Few professional astronomers use a telescope to explore the heavens. Geoff Watts asks whether computers have killed off a golden age You, the telescope, the night sky and a myriad stars at which to...
Deadline: 01/12/2005
Deadline: 01/12/2005
Geneva, 12 Oct 2005 The inaugural meeting of ISO technical committee ISO/TC 229, Nanotechnologies, the engineering of tiny machines on the nanometer scale (usually 0.1-100nm), will be held 9-11...
Washington, 12 Oct 2005 By restructuring the 1918 influenza virus, scientists have discovered the deadly disease was an avian flu that advanced directly from birds to humans. The 1918 pandemic killed...
Paris, 11 October 2005 Offshoring of research and development is on the rise, with more multinationals setting up research and development (R&D) laboratories abroad, according to a new OECD...
Brussels, 12 October 2005 The Council adopted: - a directive on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for purposes of scientific research (9288/05+COR 1, 10510/05) and - a...
Luxembourg, 12 October 2005 The package that the Council adopted today consists of a Directive which sets out a specific procedure for admitting third country nationals for the purposes of scientific...
Brussels, 12 October 2005 The EU invests about a third less in research than the US, and the EU/US innovation gap has not narrowed in recent years. Meanwhile, emerging countries like China and India...
Brussels, 12 October 2005 The European Commission has tabled an integrated innovation and research action plan, which calls for a major upgrade of the conditions for research and innovation in Europe...