Campus curiosities
The ornately carved oak door that can be seen at Brunel University's Runnymede campus was once very familiar to the Victorian engineer who gave his name to the institution. Indeed, Isambard Kingdom...
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The institute of bad ideas
If you challenge the sharpest minds to solve to problems facing academe, the results can be remarkable. Now repeat the exercise - but this time with some of the most inept scholars to ever stow away...
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The grim legacy of the poisoned umbrella
Fred Halliday examines assassinations that shaped the modern world, including one that empowered bin Laden The rioting in Khartoum over the death in a helicopter crash of John Garang, veteran leader...
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Poems from the academy
From The Princess by Alfred Tennyson And then we stroll'd For half the day thro' stately theatres Bench'd crescent-wise. In each we sat, we heard The grave Professor. On the lecture slate The circle...
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Michael Moore's opposite number
Evan Coyne Maloney is on a mission... to expose the domination of US campuses by PC lefties. Stephen Phillips reports You need to leave or you're going to jail," intones the policeman. The camera...
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Commission opinion approving plan for disposal of radioactive waste by TRIGA research reactor at University of Hannover (OJ link)
Brussels, 14 September 2005 Commission opinion of 13 September 2005 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste arising from the decommissioning and dismantling of the TRIGA - Mark I...
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Agenda of the Working Party "Transport  Intermodal Questions and Networks", 19 September 2005
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 Full text of Document 3058/05 1. Negotiations with India for establishing a cooperation agreement on the development of a civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) -...
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Nanoscience Set to Revolutionise Chip Manufacturing with sub-50mm Scale Lithography
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 European scientists from the EU-funded research project SOUVENIR take a new approach to smash the cost of leading-edge nano-research at the sub-50nm scale. Experts are tipping...
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European Commission funds project on water resource monitoring and prediction
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 A new EU research project aimed at monitoring and predicting water availability and distribution in drainage basins has just begun its activities. One of the main goals of the...
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British scientists create human embryos without sperm
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 Paul de Sousa of Edinburgh University has announced at the BA Science Festival in Dublin that his team has succeeded in creating 'virgin embryos', or parthenotes, by stimulating...
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Workshop on digital inclusion and participation, Brussels
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 A workshop entitled 'i2010 for digital inclusion and participation' will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 23 September. Organised by the European Commission's DG Information...
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International scientific conference on ambient intelligence, Finland
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 An international scientific conference on ambient intelligence, Ambience 05, will take place in Tampere, Finland, on 19 and 20 September. The first in a series of 'Ambience'...
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Embedding science and society issues throughout the thematic priorities of FP6
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 The Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders for a study aimed at embedding science and society issues throughout the thematic priorities of the Sixth Framework...
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Projection of economic impacts of climate change in sectors of Europe
Brussels, 14 Sep 2005 The Joint Research Centre's (JRC) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) has published a call for tenders related to a project to improve economic projections of...
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NASA Satellite Detects Explosion from Edge of Visible Universe
Washington, 14 Sep 2005 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center September 12, 2005 MOST DISTANT EXPLOSION DETECTED, SMASHES PREVIOUS RECORD Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite and several ground-based...