Darwin is alive and kicking
It is a sad day when serious inquiry is limited by the least able among a sizeable intake of first-years. It is a tragedy that university chiefs have had to adopt sophisticated management skills...
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Moral maze with toil and trouble at its heart
Anthropologists studying societies that believe in witches can encounter huge ethical dilemmas, reports Harriet Swain. Our monthly guide to the conferences taking place around the world. A woman in...
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Conference watch: November
195th meeting of the Society for Endocrinology , and Endocrinology and Diabetes Day , jointly with Diabetes UK, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1-3. Planet Earth - Are We Destroying Our Future?...
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Instant experts: Guitars
Publicity riff : This promises "an international conference celebrating the culture of the guitar in theory and practice". First day will be listening to live performances, second day will be the...
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International research team makes Parkinson's breakthrough
Brussels, Oct 2004 A team of researchers from the UK, the US and Spain have discovered a gene which, when mutated, causes Parkinson's disease in some families, and which could open up new avenues of...
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Genetically modified NK603 maize authorised for both food and feed
Brussels, 26 October 2004 The European Commission today authorised the placing on the market of foods and food ingredients derived from genetically modified maize line NK603 in accordance with the GM...
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Scientific reasoning should be a core school skill, says Royal Society president
Brussels, Oct 2004 The president of the UK Royal Society, Lord May of Oxford, has called on his government to 'embed the acquisition of an understanding of scientific reasoning in the formal...
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Online marketplace for innovative textiles created by FP5 project
Brussels, Oct 2004 The 'Inneurotex' project, funded under the innovation and small and medium sized enterprises section of the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) has created an online marketplace for...
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Basic research in the life sciences
Brussels, Oct 2004 A European Commission event on funding basic research in the life sciences will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 13 December. The aim of the conference is bring about a...
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Complex systems conference to bring together IST projects
Brussels, Oct 2004 A conference on complex systems will take place in Turin, Italy, from 5 to 8 December. The event will bring together all the projects funded within the complex systems initiative...
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New Developing local strategies for climate change
Brussels, Oct 2004 A conference on 'Adapting for climate change- developing local strategies' will take place in London, the UK, on 2 December. The main conference topics will include: - the...
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Revealing Titan's Surface (link)
Paris, Oct 2004 Photos These pictures were created from a sequence of images acquired by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft's cameras on 25 October 2004, 38 hours before its closest approach...
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Today's news
Students excluded after university scam Several overseas students were excluded from Oxford Brookes University this week after an investigation by The Times Higher into the use of fake qualifications...
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Latest research news
Gene wars only a few years away, say doctors Genetically targeted weapons capable of ethnic cleansing could become a reality within five years because the 鈥渨indow of opportunity鈥 to tackle their...
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Today's news
Gene tests prove we are all the same under the skin The notion that skin colour can indicate physical or mental differences between groups of people has been demolished by analysis of the human...