Brussels, 08 April 2002 Each year the European Science Foundation (ESF) supports between 40 and 50 'exploratory workshops' which allow scientists to bounce fresh ideas off each other in the pursuit...
Paris, 08 April 2002 Fire extinguishers, skin cancer detectors and a record-breaking solar car: all examples of new products on Earth made possible thanks to space technology. ESA will present these...
Paris, 08 April 2002 Maybe Treaty Enforcement Services using Earth Observation ( TESEO) is not one of the catchiest titles but the work it does is more interesting – and useful - than it sounds. In...
Brussels, 08 April 2002 The European Commission is to put greater emphasis on renewable energy and energy efficiency in its new multi-annual framework programme for actions in the energy field, '...
Brussels, 08 April 2002 Biologists from around the world will meet in London on 11 and 12 April in order to discuss whether or not eukaryotic clones really exist. Jointly organised by the Royal...
Brussels, 08 April 2002 No-one can tell with any great accuracy exactly when and where the next earthquake will strike this planet, but Russian scientists believe magnetic storms are a good place to...
Brussels, 08 April 2002 Recent findings show that delaying treatment for patients with early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) decreases the ability of traditional single-drug therapy to combat this...
Brussels, 08 April 2002 North Rhine-Westphalia's representation to the EU together with Aachen University of technology (RWTH) are jointly organising a panel discussion on 'Nanotechnology: dwarves...
Ucas chief suggests exam board merger The three school examination boards in England should be merged into a single body to make way for reforms that will allow students to apply to...
Lib Dems hint at education tax policy change The Liberal Democrats may drop their long-standing policy of a penny on income tax to pay for education reforms such as the abolition of undergraduate...
Ucas chief favours exam board merger The three school examination boards in England should be merged into a single body to make way for reforms that would allow students to apply to...
Brussels, 05 April 2002 The Academia Europaea has called for further 'e-research' to be included in the Sixth EU Framework programme for research, FP6, which is due to kick off at the beginning of...
Brussels, 5 April 2002 Working document - introduction. Temporary committee on foot-and-mouth disease, 21 March 2002. Rapporteur: Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler. Full text The foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)...
Paris, 05 April 2002 Asteroids in our Solar System may be more numerous than previously thought, according to the first systematic search for these objects performed in the infrared, with ESA's...
Brussels, 05 April 2002 A report on the future of Information and Communication Technologies, carried out last year by a group from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), is currently...