Brussels, 02 Dec 2004 The UK's Food Standards Agency has outlined its current research and survey work needs in the latest research requirements document. The Agency is looking to commission research...
Paris, 02 Dec 2004 Building a satellite takes years and costs millions. Well, not always. Nearly one hundred students from all over Europe have been working hard on SSETI Express. From the drawing...
Newcastle’s physics course axed Days after Newcastle upon Tyne was identified as one of the “cities of science” by Gordon Brown, Newcastle University confirmed a decision taken in principle in...
Brussels, 03 Dec 2004 The 2004 EU Descartes prize ceremony, which took place in Prague castle on 2 December in the presence on European personalities such as Czech President Vaclav Klaus, EU...
Brussels, 03 Dec 2004 Having completed the consultation process that it launched in May, the UK government has published its position paper on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Whereas its...
Brussels, 03 Dec 2004 The system of open access to published research favoured by the UK Parliament's Select Committee on Science and Technology would be costly for both universities and the...
Brussels, 03 Dec 2004 Brussels, 1-2 December 2004 Full text The 160th meeting of the COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO), chaired by its President, Prof. Francesco FEDI, was preceded by a COST...
Brussels, 03 Dec 2004 Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have demonstrated the feasibility of using nuclear energy to efficiently produce hydrogen from water. In a November 30 DOE...
The Life of Graham Greene Volume Three
Forever Changes - The Velvet Underground and Nico - OK Computer - Let It Be - Abba Gold
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who was once a merchant seaman: "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone...
The Mediterranean in History
A History of Modern Germany since 1815
The Measure of Multitude