Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 Commission President Romano Prodi has referred to the relationship between science and society as an issue which illustrates the EU's political and moral dimension. Speaking at...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 Astronomers in Europe have agreed to join forces in a single project to design and build the largest optical telescope in the world. The telescope's main mirror will be up to...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 A European Science Foundation conference assessing the impact of genetically modified plants will investigate introgression from crops to wild plants and the consequences...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 The third international conference on systems biology will take place from 13 to 15 December in Stockholm, Sweden. It will bring together experimentalists and theorists from...
Paris, 6 December 2002 Space agency leaders from the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia met today in Tokyo, Japan, to review and further promote International Space Station (ISS)...
Clarke announces school science network A £50 million plan to improve science teaching in schools was announced today by education secretary Charles Clarke. A national network of science learning...
Universities will be told to favour poor Universities will have to discriminate in favour of poorer students from non-academic backgrounds under new guidelines being developed by the government. They...
Copenhagen, 06 Dec 2002 Further action needed to reach EU climate change target, projections show Policy measures taken so far by European Union countries to curb their emissions of greenhouse gases...
Brussels, 06 Dec 2002 The Council held an inñdepth debate on maritime security, the prevention of pollution and the response to be made following the accident of the oil tanker Prestige and...
Brussels, 06 Dec 2002 The Council heard a report from the Commission on international management of the Internet, and in particular on the reform of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...
Brussels, 6 December 2002 The Council could also reach a political agreement on the Commission's Proposal for a Regulation concerning the traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms...
Brussels, 06 Dec 2002 The Council adopted the following conclusions: "Having regard to : (i) previous Conclusions and Resolutions of the European Council and of relevant Council formations regarding...
Brussels, 06 Dec 2002 Å’ Proposal for a European network and information security unit The Council heard a report from the Commission on a proposal for a Regulation that it intends to present in the...
Edinburgh fire destroys informatics library Edinburgh University's artificial intelligence library and archive have been completely destroyed in the worst fire within living memory in the city's Old...
University chief says students must pay own way Students should be treated as adults and made to bear the cost of their own degree courses, Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol,...