Applications are now open for IFS grants
Brussels, 18 July 2002 The Swedish-based International Foundation for Science (IFS) has issued a call for research grant applications from young scientists in developing countries. Access to research...
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Change and omission
Foreign Policy in a Transformed World. First edition
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Fat fingers, juicy pies and Uncle Sam's sorely embarrassing not-so little problem
The Future of Freedom
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Utopia: where pure politicians hand out free money
The Age of Consent
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Writing reaps reward
The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival
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Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires
Paris, 06 Aug 2003 Multiple sensors on ESA's Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots ¨C known to add millions...
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Oxford's fee legacy
Oxford clearly needs a Royal Commission, but attacking the college system is barking up the wrong tree. A worse problem in Oxford, one not shared with Cambridge, is the dismal state of the non-...
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Hand over your data!
Researchers are robbing the poor by keeping data out of the public domain, argues David Hulme Researchers from European and US universities are in effect stealing from the poor by holding on to data...
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New INNOGEN centre will help shape future science and technology policy.
Brussels, 14 Nov 2002 Experts in science, technology, economics and law will explore the impact of genomics on society, and of society on genomics, at a new centre based at the University of...
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Lifestyle lures Brits to study Down Under
The number of students leaving Britain's rainy shores to study at Australian universities has leapt by 44 per cent in the past year, new figures show. This year, 1,710 UK students opted for courses...
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Today's news
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
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Silence of illiteracy
Hassan Bouzidi's assessment of education in Morocco is gloomy (World View, THES, May 5). He says that more than half the population and 90 per cent of rural women are illiterate. But he does not...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
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Vladivostok basks in its freedom
The insistence of the old Soviet regime that it approve any new university programmes no longer hangs heavily on a rejuvenated Far Eastern State University. President Vladimir Kurilov's Vladivostok...