Paris, 08 Jan 2003 ESA's Rosetta will be the first mission to orbit and land on a comet, one of the icy bodies that travel throughout the Solar System and develop a characteristic tail when they...
Brussels, 6 January 2003 The European Commission has published a prior information notice of a call for tenders relating to a study on ways of improving complementarity and synergy between national...
Brussels, 08 Jan 2003 An Irish study has claimed that eating fish can help repair, to some extent, the artery damage caused by smoking which leads to heart attacks and strokes. The study was carried...
Brussels, 08 Jan 2003 A cactus native to the Kalahari Desert region of southern Africa and used by indigenous San bushmen to stave off hunger during long hunting expeditions is to be developed into a...
Brussels, 08 Jan 2003 Belfast's innovation relay centre is to host a healthcare and medical textiles network conference on 23 and 24 January 2003, which aims at focusing on the current and potential...
Brussels, 6 January 2003 According to a British research project, the weight of newborn babies is significantly influenced by diabetes in parents. In particular, the weight of a newborn whose father...
Brussels, 08 Jan 2003 The representation of the German region of Nordrhein-Westphalia to the European Union has organised an information day, to take place on 15 January, on new high technology...
Brussels, 6 January 2003 The Bernard Gregory Association has launched its 2003 programme entitled 'Skills evaluation - A new chapter for the thesis'. The programme aims to help PhD students (in the...
Paris, 08 Jan 2003 Arianespace press release, Paris 7 January 2003. The Inquiry Board appointed to investigate the failure of Flight 157 submitted its report to Arianespace on January 6, 2003. The...
Brussels, 08 Jan 2003 Berlin's Free University is to recruit 20 male volunteers to spend eight weeks in bed in order to simulate the effects of a space mission to Mars. The chosen individuals will...
Brussels, 6 January 2003 In its response to a UK government consultation paper on higher education, the 'save British science society' (SBS), a UK based pressure group, has warned against excessive...
Brussels, 6 January 2003 The COMDEX Scandinavia 2003 Expo on 14 January 2003 in Gothenburg will host a special seminar on technological collaboration, particularly in the areas of wireless...
Brussels, 08 Jan 2003 Following the explosion of the Ariane 5 ECA space rocket on 11 December 2002 over the Atlantic, an inquiry board announced on 7 January 2003 that a fault in the main rocket...
Morris tells government to admit mistakes Former education secretary Estelle Morris last night broke a three-month silence since resigning last year to urge the government to be more ready to admit...
Brussels, 02 Jan 2003 French President Jacques Chirac has called on all countries to support a Franco-German proposal for a global ban on human cloning following an announcement that a cloned human...