Letter: In brief 2
I note that funds are available for research into bioterrorism ("Researchers join war on terror", THES , January 4). Are there also funds to investigate the roots of terrorism or solutions to the...
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Leader: Strong foundation can be built upon licences
We should indeed, as Richard ffrench-Constant suggests (see "UK risks patent foul-up"), be learning from Warf, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The first lesson is that we have a lot of...
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Leader: Welsh backers of federal case must get in gear
Wales's federal university is under attack on two fronts. Members of the National Assembly are sceptical about the federal structure, regarding it as expensive and counterproductive, while Cardiff...
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The ubiquity of antiquity
Keith Thomson believes that there are too many museums and that they cost too much money. The answer, he tells Caroline Davis, is a clear out and a decent business plan. Keith Thomson, director of...
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He's as sick as a Flaubert's parrot
Soccer fan Steve Braunias is tackling the literature of the beautiful game on an Oxford fellowship. Huw Richards reports It would be possible to start a lively debate as to which of "football...
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Where high brow meets high jump I
Science has entered the realm of motion - scholarly analyses of the forces, angles and vectors of what many of us came to appreciate as "natural" playground moves are rife throughout British...
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Where high brow meets high jump II
There can be no doubting the popularity of sports science as a subject to study at undergraduate level in Britain. Many are interested in it because of its multidisciplinary nature. Unfortunately,...
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Can we put a price on words of wisdom?
Geoff Watts asks whether the Wellcome Trust should have paid nearly £2 million for Francis Crick's papers and ponders the impact of email on the future of archives. The alarm was sounded about six...
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Taking care from the bench to the bedside
Two of the United Kingdom's biggest cancer charities are to merge next month. Tony Durham looks at the benefits. Next month a giant new cancer charity, Cancer Research UK, will arise from the merger...
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Record number of research projects outlined at December meeting of COST officials
Brussels, 8 January 2002 European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. 146th Meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST)....
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Draft COST plans for seven research projects in forestry, fires in historic buildings, eggs, food flavour, spontaneous abortion in farm animals, troposphere, particulate matter (links)
Brussels, 8 January 2002 Economic integration of urban consumers' demand and rural forestry production Draft Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a concerted European research action...
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Report of November meeting of Scientific and Technical Research Committee
Draft summary conclusions of the 280th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2001. Note to CREST delegations. Brussels, 21...
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Nobel prize winner calls for democratisation of science
Brussels, 09 January 2002 Nobel laureate professor Sir Harold Kroto has called for better communication between scientists and the public and urged scientists to make better use of the Internet to...
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EU Forum on Cybercrime: new web pages hosted by Joint Research Centre
Ispra, 9 January 2002 Cybercrime website. The EU Forum on Cybercrime provides a platform for discussion and co-operation between law enforcement agencies, Internet Service Providers,...
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Information Society DG releases details of calls for 2002
Brussels, 09 January 2002 The European Commission's Information Society DG has published a prior information notice of open calls for tenders in 2002. During the course of 2002, the Information...