Brussels, 08 Jul 2004 Peat bogs around the world are releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, and the process could be feeding off itself, creating a snowball effect, a...
Brussels, 08 Jul 2004 Finland, famous for its expertise in many frontline scientific domains, became the 11th member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 7 July. This new accession 'will...
Brussels, 08 Jul 2004 CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has published over 300 expressions of interest (EoI), submitted by European citizens and research...
Brussels, 08 Jul 2004 The European Commission's Enterprise Directorate-General has given prior information of a call for tenders for a study on the impact of free/open source software on innovation...
Paris, 08 Jul 2004 Exploring and using space is the biggest adventure facing mankind. Finding innovative ways for ESA to continue doing this is the role of the Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) at ESA's...
A Land without Evil
The Irresponsible Self
Humanism and Democratic Criticism - Power, Politics, and Culture
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a classicscience-fiction novel that has just been filmed: "I looked at my notes and I didn't like...
Great Smaller Museums of Europe
Wild West China
A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands
" Advice is urgently needed on how to write academic CVs " - Letter in Times Higher , July 2. Darling, finished your CV for that De Montfort job? I'm a bit stuck on page one. GIVE FULL NAME. That's...
When you run a great research university, you also run risks - as Harvard University has found to its cost. Elite but cash-strapped universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, University College London...