Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), a technique for measuring the displacement of particles in flow, can be used in a wide variety of applications. The EU-funded PIVNET 2 Thematic...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 A European Space Policy Workshop entitled 'Enlarging Space Policy Debate' will take place in Leuven, Belgium on 4 February 2004. Speakers will include European Astronaut Frank...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 Nanotechnology could play a major role in medical diagnostics by 2020, finding the causes of illness quicker, more accurately and earlier than ever before, a Swiss study...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 Speaking in front of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, External Trade and Research on 21 January, Mary Harney, Ireland's Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 A network of three EU Member States and three future Member States is making an important contribution to the enlargement of the Union in the field of measurements and testing (...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 The Rosetta mission, Europe's bid to land a spacecraft on the surface of a comet, is in difficulty again, after technical concerns were raised about the flight readiness of the...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 The European Parliament has published a prior information notice of a call for tenders for scientific consultancy services for its scientific and technological options...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 The fourth annual European breast cancer conference will take place form 16 to 20 March in Hamburg, Germany. The conference is described by organisers as 'unique in encouraging...
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 In a January 20 press release, NAS said its National Research Council recommends that scientists develop additional biological confinement --- or "bioconfinement" -- methods and...
Blair whips lose confidence over top-up fees vote A downbeat warning that the government is heading for defeat in next Tuesday's vote on university top-up fees was delivered privately to the Cabinet...
A previously unpublished paper by government scientist David Kelly has provided a fresh insight into his views about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq and revealed new fears that Russia has...
The attorney-general's decision to review a decade of convictions relating to babies' deaths has put Graham Zellick, chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, in the spotlight. It will be the...
* Alex MacLennan , professor and assistant principal at the University of Paisley, has been appointed principal and chief executive of Ayr College. * Geoff Gadd , professor in the division of...
Generous bursaries are to be offered to students from less well-off families in a bid to boost the appeal of science. Among those planning new schemes is the Institute of Physics, which is poised to...
Cash from overseas students is expected to rocket over the next three years, new figures reveal this week. But the rise in students numbers will not be matched by an increase in staffing, writes...