1. August 2007
2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
Entering its fourth and final year the European Young Investigator Awards (EURYI) scheme is “going out with style”! Twenty young researchers, which have been selected by high-level scientific peer review, will gather in Helsinki, Finland on 27 September 2007 to receive awards of... [more]
25. July 2007
Call for EU to launch major project to map out all our proteins
Biologists still have no clear idea how many active genes there are coding for proteins in humans and other organisms, even though for some species the genomes have been completely sequenced. This is because many of the genes and their protein products have only been predicted by computer... [more]
10. July 2007
Statement on the Panel Report on the Final Review of the EC-ESF Contract for COST
Professor Francesco Fedi, President of the COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO), and Dr. John Marks, Chief Executive Officer of the European Science Foundation (ESF), released the following joint preliminary Statement.The Final Panel Report “Final Review of COST in the Sixth Framework... [more]
9. July 2007
LEE (formerly LESC)’s Ceulemans among the most cited Plant Science authors in Europe
Professor Reinhart Ceulemans, the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Sciences and the head of Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology at the Universiteit Antwerpen, has been named one of the 30 most cited European authors in Plant Science during 1999-2005 by Lab Times. Professor Ceulemans also... [more]
4. July 2007
Investigating Life in Extreme Environments report gives hints on life
From the deepest seafloor to the highest mountain, from the hottest region to the cold Antarctic plateau, environments labelled as extreme are numerous on Earth and they present a wide variety of features and characteristics. Investigating life processes in extreme environments not only can... [more]
3. July 2007
ESF helps Europe play lead role in new age of astronomical discovery
Astronomy is entering a new golden age of discovery led by breakthroughs in telescopes and instruments making them capable of observing distant events early in the life of the universe. There is now great optimism that one of the fundamental questions of cosmology, the origin of galaxies, will be... [more]
26. June 2007
Top Experts Call for European Marine Science & Technology Strategy
Experts in marine science and policy from all over Europe, meeting at the EurOCEAN 2007 Conference in Aberdeen on 22nd June, agreed that economic development, environmental management, and the study of rapid climate change would all benefit from a comprehensive European Marine Science and... [more]
21. June 2007
Invertebrate immune systems are anything but simple, conference finds
A hundred years since Russian microbiologist Elie Metschnikow first discovered the invertebrate immune system, scientists are only just beginning to understand its complexity. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science Foundation (ESF) conference, scientists showed that... [more]
20. June 2007
ESF EUROCORES Programme OMLL helps uncover ancient human behaviour
A major question in evolutionary studies today is how early did humans begin to think and behave in ways we would see as fundamentally modern? One index of ‘behavioural modernity’ is in the appearance of objects used purely as decoration or ornaments. Such items are widely regarded as... [more]
13. June 2007
Assessment for basic research needs fine tuning, policy experts say
Assessing the impact of basic science in terms of economic returns can be a futile and self-defeating exercise, according to economist Wolfgang Polt of the Joanneum Research Institute (Vienna). Speaking at Science Impact, a joint conference hosted by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the... [more]
