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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...
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Today's news
Emmanuel regains top rung on Cambridge's academic ladder Emmanuel College, alma mater of F. R. Leavis, Griff Rhys Jones and Cecil Parkinson, has been ranked as the best college for academic...
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EU sheep breeding programme resistant to TSE, says EFSA
Brussels, 28 Jul 2006 The EU's current sheep breeding programme is resistant to Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) and should continue in the interest of public safety, according to a...
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Physics to the rescue of the fresco
Brussels, 28 Jul 2006 Physicists in Italy have developed a new microwave-based technique for analysing the moisture and salt content of fresco paintings without damaging them - something that was...
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IP Watch Takes a Look at the EPO Project on the Future of Intellectual Property (link)
Washington, D.C., 28 Jul 2006 Full text The European Patent Office (EPO) with its centralised patent grant system was established in 1973. The EPO has 31 member states and comprises a legislative...
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UK patent attorneys welcome universities' spin-out businesses and patent applications but caution: "publish and be demned"
London, 28 Jul 2006 Barry Treves, President of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), has welcomed the news that more UK universities are patenting inventions and doing licence deals,...
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Agenda of the Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party
Brussels, 28 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 2580/06 Brussels, July Tel./Fax: +32.2.281.73.63 / +32.2.281.93.88 / Fax +32.2.281.65.11 Subject: Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working...
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Overview of UK space activities 2006 (link)
London, 28 July 2006 Overview of the activities of BNSC from April 2005 to March 2006 covering all aspects of UK space activities 06/88. 48 pages UK Department of Trade and Industry
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Japanese society in celluloid
A New History of Japanese Cinema
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Display case of disparate territories
Edge of Empire
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A man for all seasons who summed up the Kosmos
Alexander von Humboldt
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The best of all possible words
Voltaire Almighty
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Cuts from life of dog tattooer
Altman on Altman
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Poor man's hero, politicians' bane
W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who once worked as a merchant seaman on an oil tanker: "These were the last things, she...