Brussels, 29 Nov 2002 'R&D investment is not a goal in itself - it is a key vehicle for achieving the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010.' This is a conclusion by...
Brussels, 29 Nov 2002 The MEP-led European Internet Foundation, together with Puntoit, will host a high level workshop on 5 December in the European Parliament in Brussels. The theme will be 'Europe'...
Brussels, 29 November 2002 Commission opinion of November 2002 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste resulting from modifications at the site of the Biblis Nuclear Power Station...
Strasbourg, 29 Nov 2002 Jill EVANS (Greens/EFA, UK) will be tabling an own-initiative draft resolution calling for improvements in the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific...
Brussels, 29 Nov 2002 Research on nanotechnology and nanosciences is covered by one of the seven thematic priorities under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). CORDIS, the European Commission's...
Geneva, 29 Nov 2002 Union for the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (Budapest Union) Assembly WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), Assembly WIPO...
Paris, 29 Nov 2002 Arianespace issued the following press release this afternoon regarding the delay in the launch of the Ariane 5 10-tonne launcher. The launch of flight 157 has been postponed by a...
Digital domesday sees daylight Researchers have solved the puzzle of how to access the BBC’s Domesday project - a huge digital archive of life in the 1980s stored on outdated technology inaccessible...
Firms may have to ease funds crisis Business could be forced to meet some of the cost of the funding crisis in universities identified by the government, it emerged yesterday. Education...
I must have bought Gravitation by Charles Misner, Kip Thorne and John Wheeler shortly after it first appeared in 1970, and have been reading it - with diminishing understanding - ever since. It is a...
Archaeologist and passionate yachtsman Brian Fagan has circumnavigated his discipline, producing some 25 books. The world's most prolific living writer of archaeology books, including seven textbooks...
Copenhagen, 28 Nov 2002 After long and difficult negotiations EUs food- and agriculture ministers have reached a political agreement on the proposal for a regulation on GMO food and feed. President...
Brussels, 28 Nov 2002 'In a discipline as dynamic as informatics, Germany cannot afford to tread more slowly, the competitor is not sleeping. We have to gather together all of our strength now. After...
Brussels, 28 Nov 2002 The European Space Agency (ESA) is assessing the possibility of developing a new technology that could lead to Internet connection speeds 1000 times faster than today's...
Brussels, 28 Nov 2002 The challenge and the opportunity that the use of recovered paper as a raw material offers is the subject of an international symposium on 'New technological developments in...