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Media giants lap up Milkround in £20m battle for graduate website Several media groups are in the running to buy graduate recruitment website Milkround Online for about £20 million. Milkround, which...
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Environmental schemes suffer as £200m Defra cuts ordered The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was in financial crisis last night after being told to cut its budget by nearly £200...
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Latest research news
Oceans teeming with 10 million kinds of microbe, researchers find The diversity of microbes in the world's oceans may be more than 100 times greater than previously thought, according to scientists...
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Super-Cooling Radioactive Waste Speeds Decay, Reducing Half Lives by a Factor of up to 100, German Researchers Say
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 Disposing of nuclear waste presents an enormous challenge for many countries around the world. Some waste, such as that from hospital nuclear medicine departments, contains only...
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Ocean census hints at immense diversity of marine microbes
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 A new study has revealed that the biodiversity of marine microbes could be far higher than previous estimates suggested; researchers from The Netherlands, Spain and the US found...
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Analysis, basic knowledge and environment prioritised in ecotoxicology consultation
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 Analytical improvements, fundamental knowledge and environmental issues have been highlighted as priorities in response to a consultation on research and development (R&...
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Artificial solution to global warming?
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 Nobel Prize-winning chemist Professor Paul Crutzen has outlined a drastic 'emergency route' from global warming, which could use artificial means to combat the slow rise in...
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SATCEN - Report from the Secretary General/High Representative to the Council on the Implementation of the Joint Action on the Establishment of a European Union Satellite Centre
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 Full text of Document 12091/06 Suite of documents 12091/06 Subject: SATCEN - Report from the Secretary General/High Representative to the Council on the implementation of the...
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Making ageing valuable
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project has completed its investigation into life beyond middle age, looking at the 50-plus age-group and what this...
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Seeking new ways of cleaning up oil spills, European researchers decode genome of oil eating bacterium
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 A team of European researchers has decoded the genome of a key oil-degrading bacterium, Alcanivorax borkumensis. They hope that their new understanding of the biochemistry of...
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Honey's anti-bacterial qualities make it an attractive alternative for protecting wounds against drug-resistant bacteria
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 Researchers from the University of Bonn have found that one of the oldest traditional remedies known to man - honey - may offer a better treatment for slow-healing wounds,...
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Report recommends revision of bioethics law to allow therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cell research
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 A report published by a French member of parliament has recommended relaxing the authorisation procedure for embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning within France....
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Study suggests genetic modifications could interfere with insect transmission of malaria
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 Scientists from the UK and the US have made a major breakthrough in understanding the genetics of the insect parasite responsible for the spread of diseases such as malaria....
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Proposed Council Decision on the signature of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement with the Republic of Korea (extract)
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the signature of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Korea Full Text...
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Today's news
Most colleges 'set to sign technology transfer deals' Most of Britain's top research universities will have signed long-term deals giving companies exclusive access to their discoveries and...