Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A controversial vote in the European Parliament on whether the EU should fund research using tissue from human embryos has resulted in a victory for those in favour of allowing...
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 As the European Parliament considers legislation on the re-use and commercial exploitation of public sector information, an EU funded project is working to create the conditions...
Rome, 20 novembre 2003 La question des Ressources humaines de la Recherche est au coeur des actions entreprises par l'Union européenne pour stimuler l'attractivité de l'Europe comme pôle d'excellence...
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 French Minister for Research and New Technologies, Claudie Haigneré, has admitted that 2003 has been a difficult year for French researchers. She claimed, however, that things...
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A workshop aimed at members of the research community who are beginning to develop a proposal for an EU funded Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project will be held in Cambridge...
Brussels, 20 Nov 2003 A European Commission conference on challenges to European competitiveness will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 9 December. Policy responses to get Europe back on the Lisbon...
Paris, 20 Nov 2003 Ground-breaking techniques which will be used to find tiny planets orbiting stars outside our Solar System are already being developed to help scientists detect cells in the early...
Bombay Gothic
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book written by a gay Nobel laureate: "'The time has come for me to hear a step in the passage,'...
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Public Understanding of Science
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