Brussels, 12 Dec 2003 The European Commission announced on 11 December the funding of 32 cross-border initiatives under the ERA-NET scheme of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). Projects have been...
Brussels, 12 Dec 2003 A discussion of science from a cultural perspective is being organised by the Royal Institute of Great Britain, to take place on 29 January in London, UK. The event will look at...
Brussels, 12 December 2003 Results from the EU-funded BIONIC EAR project will be presented by the European Commission at this year's annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)....
Brussels, 12 Dec 2003 An international conference on computational intelligence will be held from 11 to 13 February in Canakkale, Turkey. The main goal of the conference is to promote research and...
Brussels, 12 Dec 2003 CORDIS, the European Community's Research and Development Information Service, has begun moving its services to a new integrated environment. Until now, CORDIS web pages and...
Paris, 12 Dec 2003 Tiny ground movements that occur too gradually to be seen by the human eye can nevertheless be detected by ESA satellites looking down to Earth from 800 km away. At a workshop in...
Paris, 12 Dec 2003 ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has returned tantalising new data about the nature of the Universe. In a survey of distant clusters of galaxies, XMM-Newton has found puzzling...
Washington, 12 Dec 2003 The adoption of agricultural biotechnology in the United States continues to grow, offering increasing economic and environmental benefits, according to results of a study...
University-business collaboration must be geared up before the UK falls farther behind, says Richard Lambert As an outsider looking into the UK's university system, I have had a fair number of...
Free driving lessons and touch-typing instruction are what the government could be doling out to grab some positive headlines this Christmas In the past few weeks, much of the Cabinet must have...
Tuesday Have I received the pink card? It's a call from my publishers. My collection of neurological tales, Into the Silent Land , has been shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, but I haven'...
While the Lambert review recommends that business should better exploit universities, there's one institution that's rather miffed at being exploited by Lambert. The Open University has written to...
A column purporting to identify the best physics jokes appears in this month's Physics World magazine. The Diary particularly likes the following, sent in by Ruth Hamilton of the Yorkhill NHS Trust....
Cary Cooper's move from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to Lancaster University has not reduced the number of times his wise words have graced the pages of our national...
Parents are being encouraged to send hampers to their offspring at university. The web-based company studenthampers.com will dispatch a parcel containing "easy-to-prepare hot meals, treats and snacks...