The European Science Foundation (ESF) will award this year’s European Latsis Prize to Professor Willi Kalender from the Institute of Medical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany for his contribution and in-depth research on the medical imaging field. The... [more]
Brain disorders including addiction, depression, and schizophrenia afflict 1 billion people and are often incurable with current therapies [more]
Europe is a magnet for migrants, both legal and illegal. Europeans themselves are mobile, moving to all parts of the continent to make the most of job opportunities, to retire to the Sun or to enhance their education. Therefore migration issues are often hotly debated - their cultural impact, their... [more]
A new digital divide, or rather chasm, is opening up in the scientific enterprise, and something urgently needs to be done to prevent data from being lost into oblivion At the Second International Conference on Permanent Access to the Records of Science held in Brussels on the 15th... [more]
An ambitious European collaboration proposes to set up a new institute to focus funding, coordinate projects, and nurture the requisite skills for accelerating research into cardiovascular disease, the cause of between 30 and 50 percent of the continent’s deaths, depending on the country. The... [more]
Food has never been more of a global commodity than it is today. But there is an urgent need to understand the problems that face future European food supplies within this global market. And so scientists and policy makers gathered in Budapest last week to push for a more holistic... [more]
The European Science Foundation (ESF) is joining forces with 11 knowledge-based organisations to form an alliance for the establishment of European infrastructure which helps preserving and providing permanent access to digital scientific information. The information is currently stored in formats... [more]
A major European initiative against major metabolic disorders such as obesity is to be launched at the EuroBioForum conference at Lisbon in December 2007. The aim is to revolutionise the way medical research is conducted by taking an engineering-led approach under the umbrella of systems biology,... [more]
Listen to the podcast The Chairman of the European Polar Board (EPB) Professor Carlo-Alberto Ricci speaks about the EPB’s achievement in 2007 and its plan for 2008. He also discusses the EPB’s plan to launch INFRAPOLAR, an effort to network European Polar Research stations in the Arctic and... [more]
Listen to the podcast Dr. David Carlson, Director of the International Programme Office, speaks about the achievement of the IPY and its upcoming plan. Carlson was attending the European Polar Summit, which was held on the 7th November in Rome. The Summit titled 'The Future of... [more]