Tsunami victims receive treatment via satellite
Paris, 19 Jan 2005 The ESA funded telemedicine project called I-DISCARE has been put into action to help victims along the coastal areas ravaged by last month's tsunami. It is being used to connect...
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Degree of affluence helps university hopefuls Parents who want their children to go to university should live in a detached house in a salubrious neighbourhood, read The Daily Telegraph , avoid...
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Special Training Fellowship in Bioinformatics
Deadline: 18/02/2005
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Oxbridge 'snub' to intake targets Private school pupils are expected to take a greater share of Oxford and Cambridge places this year, it emerged yesterday. The findings suggest the elite...
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Women are poor at science, says Harvard president The president of Harvard University has provoked a furore by arguing that men outperform women in maths and sciences because of biological difference...
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Summary of Conclusions 160th Meeting of the COST Senior Officials Committee Held in Brussels on 1-2 December 2004 (link)
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 341/04 Suite of documents 341/04 The President, Prof. Francesco FEDI, welcomed the participants from 33 COST Member States to the meeting1, in particular...
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EU funds Integrated Project to explore the genetics of addiction
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 While the role of genetic factors in a person's susceptibility to addiction has been recognised for some time, the complexity of the condition and the influence of other...
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EU project helps train bioinformatics experts
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 The emerging field of bioinformatics, which uses computers in biological research, especially gene sequencing, has become increasingly important following the completion of...
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Successful first year for CUTE fuel cell buses
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 Fuel cell buses developed within the CUTE project, funded under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme, have been operating for over a year in ten European cities, as well as Perth...
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Ireland announces closure of high-tech research centre
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 Media Lab Europe (MLE), the research and innovation laboratory in the field of digital technologies set up by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Competitiveness and innovation programme not appropriate for intelligent energy, says EUFORES
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 The European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources (EUFORES) has expressed concern at Commission plans to integrate the Intelligent Energy for Europe programme into its new...
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Drug discovery technology conference, UK
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 The annual Drug Discovery Technology Europe Conference will take place in London, the UK, from 14 to 16 March. The aim of the conference is to enable access to global...
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eChallenges e-2005 conference - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 The 15th instalment of the annual Commission-supported eChallenges conference (eChallenges e-2005) will take place between 19 and 21 October in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The...
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Amendments to ERA-NET call for proposals
Brussels, 18 Jan 2005 The European Commission has published amendments to its call for proposals for the ERA-NET scheme. For: Total indicative budget for 2004 and 2005 closure dates: 48 million euro...
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Analysing Huygens' Data Following the Landing in the Titanian Mud
Paris, 18 Jan 2005 Although Huygens landed on Titan's surface on 14 January, activity at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, continues at a furious pace. Scientists...