New R&D statistics show small growth in investment
Brussels, 25 Feb 2005 The latest figures on research and development (R&D) expenditure from Eurostat show that overall investment is now nudging the two per cent mark. In 2002, R&D...
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IST project helps Parkinson's sufferers to walk again
Brussels, 25 Feb 2005 Around one in twenty people that are currently paralysed as a result of Parkinson's disease could walk again, thanks to a device developed during an EU funded Fifth Framework...
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Spain approves embryonic stem cell projects
Brussels, 25 Feb 2005 The Spanish government has announced that it will give the go-ahead to four research projects involving embryonic stem cells The government issued a decree on 29 October 2004 to...
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Finland to host international biotechnology congress
Brussels, 25 Feb 2005 BioFinland 05 is an international biotechnology congress focusing on genomic drug discovery. The event will take place on 26 and April in Helsinki, Finland. The congress will...
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Prior notification of a call for various studies in the field of information society technologies
Brussels, 25 Feb 2005 The European Commission has published prior information of a planned call for various studies in the field in information society technologies (IST). The 41 studies identified...
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Methodology for the evaluation of research infrastructures support action
Brussels, 25 Feb 2005 The European Commission has published a prior information notice of a call for tenders relating to research infrastructures in Europe. The contract will involve the preparation...
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Images of Ice and Snow on Mars (link)
Paris, 25 Feb 2005 Photos These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, were released at the First Mars Express Science Conference this week...
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Permanently Sun-Lit Areas of the Moon, Near Deposits of Water Ice, Are Promising Sites for Future Lunar Exploration Bases
Paris, 25 Feb 2005 "Walking on the moon" is a song evoking one of mankind's earliest dreams. In July 1969 it became reality when, stepping out of his Lunar Module, Neil Armstrong pronounced the now...
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Universities say maths Highers don’t add up Scottish universities are being forced to offer remedial classes to students who lack basic skills in mathematics. Edinburgh, Glasgow Caledonian,...
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Getting the dead to make the case
The Bone Woman
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A bulldozer who helped dig out truth
Alfred Tarski
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Greek with a healthy ego threw light on all that ails us
Ancient Medicine
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So much more than the sum of his parts
The Knife Man
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