Brussels, 17 Jan 2005 European life scientists are drawing closer to understanding the link between foetal development and nutrition and illnesses which occur later in life. Animal tests have shown...
Brussels, 17 Jan 2005 The European Space Agency (ESA) is celebrating one of the greatest successes in its history, following the Huygens probe's safe touchdown on the surface of Titan - Saturn's...
Brussels, 17 Jan 2005 The European Commission is providing 12.7 million euro to a network of European scientists seeking to understand the relationship between lack of exercise and onset of diabetes...
Brussels, 17 Jan 2005 The Eurogroup for Animal Welfare has declared itself 'appalled' by a French challenge to the EU Cosmetics Directive prohibiting animal testing. In 2003, Members of the European...
Brussels, 17 Jan 2005 Berkley Associates and Walker Associates are offering an intensive one-day practical briefing on the financial management principles governing Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)...
Brussels, 17 Jan 2005 Two conferences on systems for the isolation and clean up of veterinary drugs and other contaminants in food matrices using physical-chemical processes will take place in Spain...
Brussels, 17 Jan 2005 As new FAO/WHO recommendations based on energy expenditure suggest industrialised countries have been systematically overfeeding young children for the last 20 years, an...
Women are poor at science, says Harvard president The president of Harvard University has provoked a furore by arguing that men outperform women in maths and sciences because of biological difference...
Pupils from disadvantaged schools to get easier route into Cambridge Cambridge University is backing discrimination in favour of pupils from poorly performing state schools, according to confidential...
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 5249/05 Suite of documents 5249/05 No. Cion prop.: 16067/04 RECH 263 EG 12 - COM(2004) 464 final Subject: Adoption of a Council Decision concerning the...
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 A robot able to prevent landslides, whose development involved funding from both the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), has been tested successfully in...
Paris, 14 Jan 2005 Images on ESA website Images on NASA website This image was returned January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan....
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 An international symposium on 'Application of nanotechnologies for separation and recovery of volatile organic compounds from waste air streams' (ANVOC) will be held in Istanbul...
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 The European Commission is funding a project aimed at increasing the number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) participating in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) FP6...
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 The Austrian government has launched processes to assist both women in science and university students. The 'professorinnen x2' programme aims to increase the number of women...