UK boosts research and innovation in medical schools
Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 Eight new medical schools in the UK are to be given extra funding to strengthen research and innovation, announced the UK's Health Minister, Lord Warner, on 4 August. Lord...
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German university association and research centres to work together on spin-off support
Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 Germany's University Rectors' Conference and its Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft have agreed to a new form of closer collaboration that will see the joint education of PhD students from...
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Mars shows signs of recent volcanic activity
Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 New data from Europe's Mars Express orbiter suggests that the Red Planet has witnessed volcanic activity much more recently than was previously supposed. The latest evidence...
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Discussing the European strategy for biotechnology and the life sciences
Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 The European Commission will host a satellite conference on 'A European strategy for biotechnology and life sciences' at the BIOnale event in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from 2...
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European conference on the molecular pathways leading to regeneration
Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 The European Science Foundation and the European Commission are organising a conference, 'Cellular and molecular basis of regeneration: Euro-conference on the molecular pathways...
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Study on risk preparedness in network and information security
Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 The European Commission's Information Society DG has published a call for tenders to carry out a study into risk preparedness in business in the field of network and information...
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Escarpment and landslides of Olympus Mons
Paris, 05 Aug 2004 Perspective view of scarp around Olympus Mons These images from ESA's Mars Express show the western flank of the shield volcano Olympus Mons in the Tharsis region of the western...
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Royal power's mongrel aspects
Hampton Court
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Communal connections
Critical Mass
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Life gets complicated but it never goes over the edge
Deep Simplicity
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No victory in the peace to end peace
The Origins of World War I - Castles of Steel - The Great War - The First World War - Trench Art
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Young Turks who set stage for the century of slaughter
The Burning Tigris
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about an ambitious Russian civil servant: "Through the gate of a hostelry in a provincial capital...
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Real people beneath the heft and the hair
The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square and Other Medical Marvels
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Common man and writer get a voice
The English Novel