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Lords inflict defeats on fees bill The government's plans for university top-up fees suffered a fresh setback when peers inflicted three separate defeats on the higher education bill during its...
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Venus puts on morning show Clear skies across England and Wales on Tuesday morning gave thousands of people almost perfect conditions to observe an event that no living person has witnessed: the...
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Message du Commissaire Philippe Busquin à l’occasion du décès de M. Gérard Mégie, Président du CNRS
Bruxelles, 8 juin 2004 C’est avec beaucoup de tristesse que j’ai appris le décès de Gérard Mégie, Président du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Brillant chercheur en physique de l’...
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Commission Communication: Towards a European strategy for nanotechnology (permanent link)
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Towards a European strategy for nanotechnology Full Text EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Nanosciences and nanotechnologies are new approaches to research and...
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Commission Report: JRC Annual Report - 2003 (link)
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION JRC Annual Report - 2003 Full text Brussels, 14.05.2004 COM(2004)362 final
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Reports and Recommendations from the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) (links)
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 EURAB Report and Recommendations on The Descartes Prize EURAB Report and Recommendations on Evaluation EURAB Report and Recommendations on The Structural Funds and The Research...
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National and European identities are compatible, FP5 project finds
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 Analysing people's notions of identity can be a challenging task at the best of times. For example there is no standard form of national identity, as our particular education...
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UK study finds link between bowel cancer and diabetes
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 A UK study that looked into whether abnormal glucose metabolism increases the risk of bowel cancer has found that people with diabetes could be three times more likely to...
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Scottish biotech firms seek end to animal testing
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 A Scottish biotechnology firm, CXR biosciences, and Edinburgh's Roslin research institute have teamed up with US bioscience giant Geron to develop a revolutionary new procedure...
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Marine Genomics Europe to hold kick-off meeting in France
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 The kick-off meeting for the Network of Excellence 'Marine Genomics Europe' will take place in Rennes, France, from 22 to 24 June. The event will address the implementation of...
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France to hold conference on the contribution of research to economic growth
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 The French association 'Doc Forum' and the Higher Institute for Literature and Human Sciences (ENS-LSH) are organising a conference on 'Research for economic growth', to be held...
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Call for tenders on tyre-road noise emissions
Brussels, 08 Jun 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for a study on the technical possibility of applying tyre-road noise emission levels without compromising vehicle safety...
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ESA's 37th Parabolic Flight Campaign is Providing a Testing Environment of Weightlessness - 'Zero-G'
Paris, 08 Jun 2004 The 37th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign started last week in Bordeaux, France, with preparation and training for the experimenters involved. On 8 June 2004, the specially...
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Sex scandal rocks Italian campus An Italian professor acquitted of trading better grades for sex has boasted of his videotaped affairs with a series of young women in an interview with La Stampa...
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