Last rites, old wrongs
We have a duty to treat the dead with respect, just as we do the living, insists Antoon De Baets The demographer Carl Haub recently guesstimated that since the dawn of the human race some 106 billion...
Search
-
-
Cheap and nasty vote winners
Cynical debate over immigration policies hides the real reason for border controls, says Alex Callinicos It has become depressingly clear that the coming general election may be dominated by a...
-
Protest disrupts lecture by Israeli
Academics and politicians have condemned pro-Palestinian students who disrupted a lecture by Israel's ambassador to Italy at the University of Florence. Twenty or so protesters shouted down the...
-
Next Week
FISTFUL OF FUNDING Who are the winners and losers in this year's Hefce allocations? PLUS Nancy Rothwell fights the urge to sell off Manchester University during her month standing in for the vice-...
-
Irish Position Regarding the 7th RTD Framework Programme of the EU
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 Full text of Document 6925/05 Suite of documents 6925/05 Please fined attached the Irish position relating to the Seventh Framework Programme and Future European Policy to...
-
European research infrastructures: a means to boost knowledge and fuel growth
Brussels, 3 March 2005 Advances in material science - which studies the structure, properties and performance of the materials all around us - are crucial to Europe’s leadership in the...
-
Molecular architects of another kind
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 A project to create a common platform for researchers working in the field of 'biological crystallography' is underway thanks to EU funding via the Sixth Framework Programme (...
-
FP6 project provides efficient tracking system for parcels
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 A successful Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project has developed a novel system that provides real-time, intelligent, end-to-end tracking and tracing for items and parcels...
-
ECOSTAR project produces roadmap for lowering costs of solar power
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 The Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project ECOSTAR has drawn up a roadmap for making solar electricity competitive, citing research results indicating that the cost of creating...
-
Negotiating FP6 research contracts
Brussels, 03 Mar 2005 A workshop on negotiating contracts for the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Cambridge, the UK, on 5 April. The aim of the event is to provide an overview of...
-
European communication equipment for the ATV and the Eneide mission reaches the ISS
Paris, 03 Mar 2005 Preparations for the arrival of "Jules Verne", the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), and those for ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori's mission, took a step forward when...
-
NASA Funds Research for Self-Assembling Electronic Devices
Washington, 03 Mar 2005 Purdue University Press release, February 28, 2005 Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires' WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. â€" Researchers at Purdue...
-
Today's news
Mutiny at Oxford? The oldest university in the English-speaking world is undergoing a revolution at the hands of a New Zealander - or it will if he has his way. Last week Dr John Hood, the new vice-...
-
A crash course in customer care
Deian Hopkin shadows Dixons boss John Clare and benefits from a little knowledge transfer November 18, 2004 John Clare, chief executive of Dixons, sounds a warning on the prospects for Christmas and...
-
The doors to the mainstream are shut to pioneers
With the UK academy still reluctant to give recognition to black academics and black studies, Mandy Garner asked a group of academics why change has been so slow in coming and how things might be...