Brussels, 04 Mar 2005 Tekes, Finland's technology agency, has called for the introduction of an entirely new thematic priority in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for EU research: 'R&D...
Brussels, 04 Mar 2005 Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik has called on Japan to agree to a compromise on the location of the international thermonuclear experimental reactor, ITER....
Brussels, 04 Mar 2005 The first ever European Research and Innovation Exhibition will be held in Paris, France, from 3 to 5 June. The brainchild of an entrepreneur and a scientist, the exhibition...
Brussels, 04 Mar 2005 A conference entitled 'Why does nanotechnology concern me?' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 25 and 26 April. Aimed at scientific and research professionals, legislators...
Paris, 04 Mar 2005 The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft yesterday performed ESA's closest-ever Earth fly-by, gaining an essential gravity boost in its ten-year, 7.1 billion kilometre flight...
'Gifted' tick box that could cost pupils a university place Sixth-formers competing for places at leading universities may lose out if they have not signed up to a scheme for gifted children because...
Which Side Are You On? Ken Loach and His Films
Paintings in the Musee d'Orsay
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity
Buster Keaton
Ancient Mexico and Central America
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
Letters from the Desert
China's Space Program
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the autobiography of a nurse: "I was born in the town of Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, some time...