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Oxford unveils radical plans to overhaul university governance Oxford University has published radical plans to overhaul its governance structure, creating a body that will bring the university's...
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End of Sars as a deadly threat The killer Sars virus has been contained so effectively that it can be considered eradicated outside laboratories, scientists said on monday. Severe acute respiratory...
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Draft Summary Conclusions of the 299th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) Held in Brussels on 20 January (link)
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Full text of Document 1202/05 Suite of documents 1202/05 The meeting was chaired by Mr MITSOS (European Commission, Director General) and Mr ESCRITT (European Commission,...
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Women scientists are more ambitious than men, but lack support, finds study
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A study carried out in the UK suggests that women scientists are more ambitious than their male counterparts, but feel they lack the support and encouragement needed to progress...
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UN resolution against human cloning lacks political weight, say opponents
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A committee of the United Nations has, in a split vote, approved an international declaration calling on countries to ban all forms of human cloning - both reproductive and...
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State aid - Germany: State aid in favour of Schneider Technologies AG - comment within one month (link)
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Full text of this notice State aid in favour of Schneider Technologies AG State aid No C 26/2004 (ex NN 38/2004) Invitation to submit comments pursuant to Article 88(2) of the...
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Mars Express finds evidence of frozen sea
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Images captured by Europe's Mars Express spacecraft have revealed what could be a frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, just below the surface of the Red Planet,...
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Finland welcomes Commission's research proposals, but with conditions
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Finland has adopted its position on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research, raising concerns about the management of research projects, and proposing a new scheme...
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FP5 project achieves world breakthrough in treating blindness
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A project financed under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) has successfully developed an electronic implant to allow a blind person to recover some vision. In a ground-...
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Research In Swiss Institutions
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Today's news
Reforms will boost vocational training The “gold standards” of A levels and GCSEs will be enhanced to stretch the most able students, and vocational training will be boosted to end the snobbery that...
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Abel Prize gives mathematics its 'rightful cachet', argues Busquin
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 Ever since Alfred Noble announced his plans to establish annual prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine in 1897, there were those in the mathematics community who called for a...
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Forest-based industry unveils vision for 2030
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 A Technology Platform bringing together various stakeholders in the forest-based industry around a common vision for 2030 has been launched. The vision sees Europe's forest...
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CO2 capture and storage - towards zero emission power plants
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 A conference on CO2 capture and storage - 'Towards zero emission power plants' - will take place in Brussels, Belgium, from 13 to 15 April. The event is portrayed as an...
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Conference on the architecture of computing systems - Innsbruck, Austria, 14-17 March
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 An international conference on the architecture of computing systems will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, from 14 to 17 March. The event programme will encompass the design,...