Stakes high for EU science plans
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Europe must make good on plans to set up an independent funding body for science or face an unprecedented brain drain, a leading scientist has warned.
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The harvesting of stem cells from  human embryos will continue to be funded by the EU, the  incoming European Union research chief said on Friday, vowing  to keep an open mind while taking ethical views into account.
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Grants aim to accelerate European research into business applications of shared computing.
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The European Commission is to detail wide-ranging proposals for achieving its goals on climate and energy.
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The European Space Agency's chief scientist sets out his vision for a DNA library on the Moon in case of emergency.
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Gordon Brown may rejig departments in making science a top priority, the education secretary says.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on how the EU will juggle tackling climate change with the needs of industry.
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As American scientists again won a majority of the Nobel Prizes this year, European officials said they're trying hard to close the trans-Atlantic gap in scientific research.
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Forging a common EU foreign policy is an ambitious project, the BBC's Paul Reynolds reports.
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A series of X-Prizes for breakthroughs in science or technology that solve the world's greatest challenges are planned.
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Investing â¬1bn in research The European Commission has announced that it is to invest more than â¬1bn on research into new technologies that can improve the lives of older people.â¦
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Europe gives handout to boost competitiveness The European Union this week announced plans to pump â¬9bn into research on information and communications technologies.â¦
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Novel ideas that exploit the pin-point accuracy of Europe's soon-to-launch Galileo system are being sought.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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BRUSSELS -- The European Union's (E.U.'s) planned software patent rules represent a major threat to interoperability unless specific exemptions are made to the legislation, participants at a conference on the issue heard on Tuesday.
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Thereâs plenty of haddock and plenty of prawns in the sea, but precious little cod, according to scientific experts. Thatâs why the European Commission wants
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A series of X-Prizes for the scientific or technological breakthroughs that tackle the most important challenges facing humans are being planned.