Soap stars in Kew revamp
Research will be the focus of exhibits in the revamped 141-year-old Lakeside building at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London. Curator of the Centre for Economic Botany Hew Prendergast says the...
Research will be the focus of exhibits in the revamped 141-year-old Lakeside building at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London. Curator of the Centre for Economic Botany Hew Prendergast says the...
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has launched a Pounds 250,000 awards scheme to encourage scientists to communicate their research to the public. Under the "Partnerships for...
France is to break down the legal barriers separating public research and private industry and introduce tax and other financial breaks to support the creation of high-tech and other innovatory...
Kam Patel looks at how Juggernaut, an interior design firm set up by four graduates, has thundered its way along the road to success Steven Jensen scrabbles around some shelves in his design studio...
Don't think you'll save the world as an environmental scientist - most end up working for industry. Ayala Ochert reports Environmental scientists scanning newspaper appointments sections might soon...
Olga Wojtas reports on a Scottish initiative that is investigating the research potential of the performing arts The nation's conservatoires have traditionally had a low research profile,...
The EU calls them TMRs, cross-border postdoctoral centres that it funds to the tune of Pounds 42,000 each. But, asks Judy Redfearn, how are they faring? About 2,000 European postdoctoral researchers...
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Standards, measurements & testing Contacts: Philippe Quevauviller. Fax: +32-2-295.80.72 Open call for accompanying...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a sardonic observer of Mayfair folk: "It was clearly going to be a bad...
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