27. November 2008
ESF's Space Sciences Committee presents its statement at the ESA's Ministerial Conference
The European Space Agency (ESA) Council at ministerial level has been held this week in Den Haag, The Netherlands. The European Space Sciences Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESSC-ESF), the leading European independent advisory body on matters of space sciences, attended the... [more]
27. November 2008
Independent first-class European space science as a strategic drive for promotion European interest and leadership
Leading European space scientists put forth a set of recommendations to shape future space research policy for Europe. [more]
26. November 2008
Solar energy as a sustainable source of European economic growth
European researchers call for paradigm shift towards clean fuel technologies [more]
26. November 2008
Using water to understand human society – from the industrial revolution to global trade
Water shapes societies, but it is a factor only just beginning to be appreciated by social scientists. The Norwegian professor, writer and film maker Terje Tvedt, of the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, argues that water has played a unique and fundamental role in shaping societies throughout... [more]
24. November 2008
Europe Cores in EUROCORES – Ocean Drilling in EuroMARC
The oceans are our climate regulators, cover the sites of fundamental geodynamic, geochemical and biological processes and have high-resolution records of the Earth’s history in store for us. Scientific marine drilling and coring is crucial to cast light on both the deep and shallow (sub-)... [more]
21. November 2008
European Commission recognises ESF’s role in European research on polar science
The European Commission has adopted a new communication plan on "The European Union and the Arctic Region" which highlights the effects of climate change and human activities in the Arctic. Apart from setting out EU interests and policy objectives, the new plan, which marks the first step towards... [more]
21. November 2008
Mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and cancer give clues to new therapies
Cardiovascular conditions leading to heart attacks and strokes are treated quite separately from common cancers of the prostate, breast or lung, but now turn out to involve some of the same critical mechanisms at the molecular level. This in turn provides clues to more effective therapies for both... [more]
19. November 2008
Understanding Europe’s Topography
The EUROCORES programme TOPO-EUROPE kicks off [more]
19. November 2008
Between Success and Failure
Survey shows significant education discrepancies among the Second Generation in the Netherlands [more]
19. November 2008
Systems biology brings hope of speeding up drug development
Almost every day brings news of an apparent breakthrough against cancer, infectious diseases, or metabolic conditions like diabetes, but these rarely translate into effective therapies or drugs, and even if they do clinical development usually takes well over a decade. One reason is that medical... [more]
