Brussels, 29 April 2004 As part of the enlargement process, 24 national enforcement laboratories from the acceding countries will today sign an agreement in Prague to become part of the European...
Brussels, 29 Apr 2004 The EUROCEAN 2004 Conference, will take place from 10th-13th May 2004 in Galway, Ireland. Celebrating European Marine Science Building the European Research Area Communicating...
Brussels, 29 Apr 2004 Amid fears of terror attacks and the shifting demographical and political sands across Europe, EU policy-makers are keen to raise the profile of research on security challenges...
Brussels, 29 Apr 2004 The SLIM project, funded under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) will hold a public seminar in Brussels, Belgium, on 26 May. The SLIM (social learning...
Brussels, 29 Apr 2004 EARTO, the European association of research and technology organisations, together with Hyperion consulting, is organising a series of three training course for research...
Representatives from the European Commission will attend BIO 2004, the world's largest biotech industry meeting, which will take place in the US, in San Francisco, from 6 to 9 June. The Commission...
Paris, 29 Apr 2004 As the 2004 motor-racing season gets underway, technology from Europe's satellites and launchers is being put to the test on Europe's race tracks. Henri Pescarolo is again using...
Paris, 29 Apr 2004 Images The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its centre lies a superhot dying star smothered in a blanket of 'hailstones'....
Paris, 29 Apr 2004 The MARSIS team has advised ESA to delay the deployment of the MARSIS radar instrument on board Mars Express, scheduled for this week. New and improved computer models suggest that...
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the diary of a curmudgeonly don: "The gas lamp outside our door has been lit again for the first time...
The Curse of Ham
The Stolen Woman
Mind over Magma
Snowball Earth