Brussels, 30 Jan 2004 A new centre designed to promote collaboration in research and development (R&D) between academia and industry in the field of particle science has opened in the UK. The...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2004 European Space Agency (ESA) engineers are hoping to solve an engine problem on Smart-1 that, if they fail, could leave the Moon probe adrift in space. The cause of the problem...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2004 The tenth annual pharmaceuticals conference, themed 'exploring possibilities for a new era of growth', organised by The Economist, will take place on 12 February in London, UK....
Brussels, 30 Jan 2004 EuroLegal is organising an international conference on the latest developments in biotech patenting, to take place on 1 and 2 March in Munich, Germany. In the past year a number...
Paris, 30 Jan 2004 Around 7pm CET on 28 January 2004, ESA's Envisat spacecraft completed its ten thousandth orbit of the Earth – travelling a distance of 450 million kilometres since launch,...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The Environmental Technology Action Plan (ETAP) was adopted by the European Commission on 28 January, with the dual objective of developing environmental technologies and...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The UK working group charged with carrying out a study on the likely developments in nanotechnology has heard calls for the creation of a 'space' where scientists, government...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 The European molecular biology organisation (EMBO) has launched a new online life sciences mobility consultancy (LSMC), with help from the European Commission's research...
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 A two day programme of exhibitions and seminars focussing on innovations in the jewellery industry will take place on 3 and 4 March in Birmingham, UK. JewelMed 2004 is organised...
Paris, 29 Jan 2004 Preparing for the arrival of the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle. Europe's scientific utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS) took an important step forward...
Ministers face renewed pressure for changes to key elements of the higher education bill despite their dramatic Commons victory this week. Rebel Labour MPs were confident of overturning the five-vote...
Virginia Woolf is being welcomed back to Bloomsbury by British scholars in the final chapter of the literary giant's academic rehabilitation in the UK. Some 300 delegates will visit London this June...
Prominent rebel Austin Mitchell admitted to a certain sense of guilt on Wednesday morning after deciding a few minutes before the vote on the higher education bill to back the government over...
The trustees of the Commonwealth Institute have announced that Christopher Colclough , professor and director of the global monitoring report on Education for All, based at the United Nations...
Rebel Labour MPs vowed to continue their fight against the higher education bill in the next stage as the rush to get on to the committee began. Ian Gibson, a key rebel leader, said: "We will be...