Scientists Colin Blakemore and Gill Langley square up for tonight's Controversial Thesis debate at the National Portrait Gallery. They will be confronting questions such as is there a good enough...
The moral status of animals is at the centre of the debate about whether they should be used in research and testing. Few people disagree that animals count in our moral framework, but the question...
In the Third Reich, nurses went from caring for patients to killing them. Claire Sanders finds out why The history of the Holocaust has become sanitised," says Linda Shields, holder of the foundation...
US research bans and immigration controls may be reversing the brain drain. Stephen Phillips reports Since the Royal Society coined the phrase in the 1950s, "brain drain" has customarily referred to...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 Report on the ethical, legal and social aspects of genetic testing: research, development and clinical applications Speakers Conference programme The 25 recommendations on the...
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Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 Dr Clive James, chair of the international service for the acquisition of agri-biotech applications (ISAAA) and a leading proponent of agricultural biotechnology for the...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 The European Commission has responded to a report by the Court of Auditors criticising various aspects of the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) by highlighting the simplifications...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 EU, national and industry funding has enabled the opening of the new Nanotechnology Research Institute at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. The new institute will be...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 A panel discussion on 'Education through research - the university concept' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 12 May. The discussion is intended to illuminate the role of...
Brussels, 21 Apr 2004 The third Moscow international congress will examine the subject 'biotechnology: state of the art and prospects of development' when it convenes in Moscow, Russia, from 14 to 18...
Paris, 21 Apr 2004 The DELTA mission, with European Space Agency astronaut André Kuipers from the Netherlands, and the ISS Expedition 9 crew, successfully docked with the International Space Station...
Have-not-students scrape by on £9.50 a week There is a yawning gap between the haves and have-nots among UK students, with 8 per cent surviving on only £9.50 a week while 10 per cent have £150 a week...
Suburb studies finds a home on the college agenda It is the place we love to ridicule - the mock Tudor home of the Bisto family where Tupperware is king and Shake n' Vac is the drug of choice. But...
Forget oil, overseas students make money A boom in demand for higher education could triple the number of foreign students at British universities to 870,000 by 2020, a new report concluded yesterday...