Brussels, 21 Feb 2003 French scientists have discovered that male king penguins are able to conserve food in their stomach for several weeks during their incubation fast. Samples from seven male...
Brussels, 21 Feb 2003 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the completion of a report on improving the efficiency of biotechnology legislation. In 2003, the Commission will...
Monkey business troubles University of California An escaped rhesus macaque monkey from a University of California medical research laboratory has strengthened community opposition to plans for a...
Brussels, 20 Feb 2003 The European Commission has published a service contract forecast for science and technology commercialisation under the Tacis Russia programme, on behalf of Russia. Taking into...
Brussels, 20 Feb 2003 The IPR (intellectual property rights) Helpdesk will hold a training seminar on 'intellectual property and the Sixth Framework Programme [FP6]' in Brussels on March. The event...
Brussels, 20 Feb 2003 Leading life scientists meeting in Paris to discuss the possible creation of a European research council (ERC) reached a consensus on certain key issues, but left a number of...
Brussels, 20 Feb 2003 The forum for European-Australian science and technology cooperation (FEAST) is holding a series of information seminars in Australia on the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The...
Paris, 20 Feb 2003 ESA is providing the first chairman for the International Living With A Star (ILWS) programme. ILWS is an unprecedented initiative in which space agencies worldwide are getting...
Female provost breaks mould at Cambridge King’s College, Cambridge, has appointed its new provost: the first non-King’s graduate for centuries and the first female provost in its 560-year history....
Research elite want rethink of knowledge-transfer funding Top research-led universities want the government to revise plans to give new universities access to a £50 million fund to work more closely...
Efforts to reform Cambridge show that if dons won't fight their corner, others will muscle in, says Gordon Johnson Normally, Cambridge University has a good press, which is appropriate for an...
With all advances come some small drawbacks, but that doesn't mean technologies shouldn't be developed at all We are continually bombarded by emotive campaigns. You name it: for and against GM beans...
This week, The Diary brings you intelligence of what the country's academic registrars are doing when they're not shuffling papers - they're all exchanging puerile jokes about each others' students....
January 1963 Wow, BBC schools broadcast on Mick Mannock VC, the "ace with one eye" who, myth has it, memorised the sight chart, tricking the doctors in order to rule the skies over the Western Front...
We must always be concerned if students drop out of their degree programmes. For each one, we need to understand why they did so, whether we could have done anything to prevent it, whether they were...