On its website, the Burmese regime describes Burma as "historical", with a civilisation dating back many centuries, and stresses its own role in uncovering Burmese history. Over the past decade it...
Could the natural variability of the Sun be fooling climatologists into underestimating the human impact on the atmosphere? Stuart Clark investigates. At an altitude of 100km lies a natural boundary...
Antibiotic resistant bugs have been found in cheese despite a three-year-old Europe-wide ban on the agricultural use of the veterinary drug thought to be responsible. The study, by Giorgio Giraffa at...
A pall of ice clouds could have ringed the globe following the colossal eruption of an Indonesian volcano, blamed by some for triggering the Dark Ages. Computer simulations have added weight to...
Headline writers want only black and white, but research results come in shades of grey. In the past couple of days, the results of Countryside Survey 2000 will have hit (or missed) the newspaper...
The new head of ߣߣÊÓƵn science organisation Csiro is keen to discover untapped brilliance, writes Julia Hinde. Having helped secure funding for scientific research in post-apartheid South Africa...
In response to the French public's consternation over rising numbers of cattle infected by BSE, research minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg has announced a tripling of the budget for research into...
An accord on scientific and technological cooperation has been signed by the EU and Russia. The agreement paves the way for the exchange of information and researchers, as well as allowing free...
Bionet, an electronic network linking science museums in the EU, is to be launched next year. Funded by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research, it willcreate a digital exhibition...
A specialist group formed to advise the European Commission on ethical issues has called for staged ethical assessments during EU-funded research on stem cells. The European Group on Ethics in...
A coordinating group is to be set up by the EU to link research teams across the continent that are investigating the cause and effect of BSE and its human form, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...
Bids from English universities for new medical places could lead to the opening of two medical schools and to a rapid expansion of four-year graduate-entry medical degrees. The universities of York...
Medical and nursing students should study complementary and alternative medicine (Cam), according the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, writes Caroline Davis. Lord Walton's sub-...
One of the richest members of the Commonwealth has failed to contribute to a flagship distance-learning project for the 12th year. The Singapore delegation left the Commonwealth Ministers' Education...
FINANCIAL TIMES Scientists at the Max Delbruk Centre in Berlin and Infogen, a German biotechnology company, have announced that they have identified one gene that is responsible for the phenomenon of...