Big guns may win the battle but not the war
What wins wars? Jeremy Black finds superior arsenal is just one factor in determining which side is victorious Historians used to emphasise the material aspects of war - specifically the quality and...
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Western close-up must pan out wider
Film Studies
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Latest European research news
The full text of all important European statements, speeches and announcements on research - from the European Union and bodies such as the European Space Agency - appears here: · Closer S&T...
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European communication equipment for the ATV and the Eneide mission reaches the ISS
Paris, 03 Mar 2005 Preparations for the arrival of "Jules Verne", the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), and those for ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori's mission, took a step forward when...
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Latest research news
Magnetic fields set senses tingling Patients who suffer a stroke could get their movement and feeling back with the helping hand of magnetic pulses fired at their brains, according to new research....
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Native vegetables could help solve Africa's food crisis and boost weak rural economies
Washington, 31 October 2006 Full Report Powerful tools for tackling many basic problems in sub-Saharan Africa -- namely hunger, malnutrition, and rural poverty -- could literally spring from the...
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Alleluia, God goes global
The spread of Enlightenment ideas was expected to lead to a decline in world faiths and the triumph of secularisation. But religion is flourishing and evolving, especially in the developing world...
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Take a board but keep the brolly
If drizzly old Blighty is getting you down, get networking and do your homework on research hot spots. But don't plan for a one-way overseas trip - you may want to come home, says Harriet Swain...
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Hot date that never was... must have been the make-up
Why Some Like it Hot: Food
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Europe fights new TB on the rise in former Soviet Union
Brussels, 25 Nov 2004 Europe's first anti-tuberculosis centre, aimed at combating the spread of a new multi-drug resistant strain of the disease, opened in Riga, Latvia on 22 November. The official...
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First reading of draft 2006 EU budget Council of Finance Ministers
Brussels, 14 July 2005 The EU’s Council of Finance ministers are meeting in Brussels on 15th July at 10.00 a.m. for the first reading of the 2006 draft budget. At 11.00 a.m. representatives...
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Don's diary: communicable diseases
Saturday Yesterday, the World Health Organisation website showed only two recorded cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in Malaysia, fewer than in the UK. But Singapore is nearby, so it...
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Bristol bucks trend in Asian study
Bristol University is opening an East Asian studies department barely a month after Durham University announced plans to close its department, writes Caroline Davis. In contrast to several...
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FP6 project coordinates mobile and wireless research worldwide
Brussels, 04 Apr 2005 The European Commission is financing a project aimed at ensuring that European research on mobile and wireless communication continues to be the motor for the research and...
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Deadline: 31/01/2003