Carbon capture and storage – will it work?
“The single most effective way to tackle these [greenhouse] gases is to capture them and store them safely underground” – Shell Website Read more [...]
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Can you RELATE to this? Research Labs for Teaching Journalists experience
Over the past two years a European Union project has taken 80 journalism students and early-career journalists for one-week courses visiting research labs across Europe. I was lucky enough to take part in the last cohort of journalists sent to universities Read more [...]
European airspace – acting as one
The lonely scientist, covered by his papers alone in his room, talking to no one, is extinct. Science happens world wide in connection with partners around the globe, frequent travels are part of the daily life. Like for anybody else, delays are quite an annoying concomitant, especially if you travel by plane to reach your destination faster. Very often in Europe the cause for a late arrival is Air Traffic Control (ATC) related. Read more [...]
Where are the big fish?
European waters were once brimming with big fish. Huge changes have taken place, and today’s fish are much smaller than only two or three generations ago. Read more [...]
Biotechs speak up on GM crops
Despite a largely negative response from EU agriculture ministers to proposals to allow individual countries make their own decisions on the cultivation of GM crops, it seems certain that the battle over GM will be won or lost in the hearts and minds of EU citizens. It is their opinions on GM which influence local and national policy, which in turn, feeds into the European debate. Read more [...]
Dr Christian Yeomans, UK HE Europe
Aarathi Prasad, freelance science journalist, author and broadcaster, interviews Dr Christian Yeomans, Policy Analysis and Public Read more [...]
Sustaining research through the economic downturn – in the UK and Europe
On the 6th and 7th of September 2010, the historic Midland hotel in central Manchester, UK was filled with nearly 400 participants attending the Vitae Researcher Development Conference. The discussion of ideas on professional development and support for researchers at this year’s annual gathering is of particular importance, as it comes cheek by jowl with the UK spending review outcomes to be announced this Autumn – and with an expectation of hard times to come. The conference participants were set to discuss the new political context, to gather evidence of the contribution of researchers to the academic base and to economic and cultural prosperity, and to address future skill sets of researchers and the UK’s place in the global research environment. Read more [...]
Is it better to be an academic in the US or Europe
Europe lead on public engagement while the US enjoy the science stimulus package – on which side of the Atlantic is it better to be a scientist? Read more [...]
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