Brussels, 23 Jun 2006 It is widely recognised that it takes decades for the impact of investment in science and technology (S&T) for solving problems to become evident in policy. Most of the time...
Brussels, 23 Jun 2006 According to a new report from the US National Research Council, scientists are now able to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century...
Washington, 23 Jun 2006 http://www.fasb.org/news/nr062306b.shtml More than 100 countries are chipping in to build a vault to store the seeds from thousands of crop varieties around the world in order...
Criticised academic found dead A chancellor at the University of California has died after apparently jumping from a 43-storey building. Denice Dee Denton, 46, chancellor of the Santa Cruz campus,...
Firestorm - Among the Dead Cities
Ingmar Bergman
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a bestseller by a self-confessed 'biology watcher': "We are told that the trouble with Modern Man is...
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On the Wrong Line
Los Alumbres Españoles
Freakonomics
Medici Money
Deadline: 20/10/2006
Creationism will be 'compulsory', report Jessica Shepherd and Steve Farrar Creationism - the belief that the biblical story of creation is scientific fact - is beginning to make inroads into the...
After a stint at the UN, Alex Schmid is back in academe, to speak his mind and to focus on terrorism studies The bulwark of academic freedom has brought an internationally known scholar on terrorism...