Press Releases 2007

European lead in reading past climates from ice cores

Climate change is a reality today, but how can we find out about the future dangers it poses? What we really need is a full record of the Earth’s climate for several hundred thousand years, complete with samples of air from different epochs that can be taken to the lab for analysis. Incredibly,...

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Marine Board-ESF comments on EC’s Proposal for an Integrated Maritime Policy

The Blue Paper on the Maritime Policy, which includes a plan of action to improve cross-sectoral collaboration between maritime players, is adopted today (10 October 2007) by the College of Commissioners of the European Commission. Issues raised during the year-long consultation on the European...

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ESF names Balázs Kiss head of Social Sciences unit

The European Science Foundation (ESF) has named Dr. Balázs Kiss from the Centre for Political Communications Research in Budapest as the Head of Unit for the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences. (SCSS) Dr. Kiss is currently the director and the founder of the Centre for Political...

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Paving the way for future pan-European Clinical Trials

Pan-European collaboration is important for many clinical trials and essential for trials that are investigating treatments for rare diseases. That was the message delivered today by the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC), the membership organisation for medical research councils across...

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Web Search Leads to Award-winning Collaborative Work

York University's John Goodby is Project Leader of the European Science Foundation (ESF) SONS 2 programme LC-NANOP, but it was perhaps only by chance that he and his colleagues entered into a unique Europe-wide collaboration on fundamental science. Goodby's colleague Isabel Saez discovered the ESF...

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Hybrid approach to solar power brings rewards

SONS 2 scientist Dr Saif Haque of Imperial College London, is to receive the Royal Society of Chemistry's Edward Harrison Memorial Prize for his research on developing solar cells based on self-organising organic materials systems. Haque first became involved with the ESF through its SONS 2...

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ESF Governing Council approves Forward Looks, EUROCORES

The European Science Foundation (ESF) Governing Council has, at a meeting in Helsinki last week, approved a number of important research and research strategy activities that aimed at advancing the European research agenda. The approval of these activities from the Forward Looks and the EUROCORES...

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Research Integrity conference in Lisbon tackles fraud, falsification, plagiarism

The issues of fraud, falsification and plagiarism in science were the topics of discussion at the first World Conference on Research Integrity. About 300 concerned scientists, scientific managers, policy makers and science press from 52 countries gathered in Lisbon last month to analyse and share...

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ESF names University of Helsinki’s Marja Makarow its Chief Executive

The European Science Foundation announced Professor Marja Makarow will succeed Dr. John Marks to be its Chief Executive; making her the first woman to take the top post in the science organisation’s 33-year history.Over the past decade Makarow, who is an active scientist in the field of molecular...

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Conference in Computational Physics 2007: event showcases all matter great and small

The way things move has fascinated physicists from Newton to Einstein. But until now few physicists appreciated how widely the laws of movement apply.   From understanding how cell membranes let in proteins to how elementary particles behave at the speed of light, scientists are realising...

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