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Press Invitation - Science Drip Mat Challenge Launch
Professor Colin Blakemore and Mic Rolph, science book illustrator, will launch the Pub Understanding of Science project at The Albion Pub on Monday 5 October. The project funded by the Royal Society and British Association Millennium Awards Scheme, run on behalf of the Millennium Commission, brings... view more (1998-09-29)

Millennium Technology Prize received over 70 nominations
More than 70 innovators from around the world, who have developed technology which improves people's quality of life, have been nominated for the first-ever Millennium Technology Prize. The Prize will be awarded next summer in Finland. The nomination period for the one million euro prize closed at... view more (2004-01-05)

New Science Centres Require Millions in Annual Subsidies
An annual subsidy of £50 - £100 million will be needed to keep the UK's new science centres afloat, suggests John Beetlestone, retired founding Director of Techniquest, in an opinion piece in this month's Science & Public Affairs. The Millennium Commission and others have recently... view more (2000-04-10)

WHO's vision for the future (pp 2033; 2083)
In the week that WHO releases its 2003 World Health report (Shaping the Future), Jung-Wook Lee, WHO Director-general, outlines his vision of how WHO will address the global health-care priorities of the coming years. Lee's article comments: 'A world torn by gross health inequalities is in serious... view more (2003-12-17)

A fast diagnosis for bacterial meningitis
University of Sydney researchers at Westmead Millennium Institute develop an accurate and rapid method of diagnosing bacterial meningitis.   view more (2005-11-17)

Football and Psychics in Final Round of Millennium Awards Scheme
The final round of the scheme has seen further innovative and unusual means for promoting science, engineering and technology. Stockport County fans are finding science cartoons in their match day magazines. Psychics are being challenged by an exhibition on the science of the paranormal in London.... view more (1999-06-07)

University of Sussex launches world's first degree programme in 'seed banking'
Biologists are being offered the chance to help save the planet by enrolling in an innovative new postgraduate degree at the University of Sussex this autumn. Together with the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the University is to offer the world's first degree programme in 'seed... view more (2003-05-30)

Rewriting glacial history in Pacific North America
Although the story on glacier fluctuations in northwestern North America over the last 10,000 years has remained largely unchanged for decades, new evidence discovered by a University of Alberta researcher will rewrite that glacial history and offer clues about our climate history during the last... view more (2006-01-10)

Focus on people-centred technology
The world's biggest technology award calls for discussion on people-centred technology. The one million euro Millennium Technology Prize will be awarded for the first time on 15th June 2004 in Helsinki, Finland. The prize ceremonies will be accompanied by a technology conference that explores the... view more (2004-02-03)

Another two University inventions given Millennium Product status
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Berners-Lee Wins Inaugural Millennium Technology Prize
World Wide Web Inventor Receives One Million Euros Prize from Finnish Technology Award Foundation World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee was today named recipient of the first-ever Millennium Technology Prize. The honour, which is accompanied by one million euros, is bestowed by the Finnish... view more (2004-04-15)

New thermal microscope chosen as Millennium Product
A new type of microscope that can look beneath the surface of an opaque material has been granted Millennium Product status. The news was announced by Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson at the CBI Conference in Birmingham today, Monday 2 November. The microscope is a product of... view more (1998-11-04)

Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
In April 2007, the General Assembly of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations convened to discuss progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).   view more (2007-06-20)

HOW DO WE COPE WITH AN AGEING SOCIETY?
One of the major challenges for the millennium is the social and economic implications of an ageing society. To address these issues Bristol University has launched a new International Institute on Health and Ageing.   view more (1999-02-09)

Global coral reef assessment built on NASA images
A first-of-its-kind survey of how well the world's coral reefs are being protected was made possible by a unique collection of NASA views from space.   view more (2006-07-27)

Malaria Millennium Development Goal 'unlikely to be met'
The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria globally is unlikely to be met, according to Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Professor Bob Snow.   view more (2008-07-22)

Society makes Nobel winners Millennium Fellows
Eight of the most eminent chemists in the UK will become the Millennium Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry at a special ceremony in Cambridge on Monday 3 July 2000. Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Minister for Science, will join this celebration of the work of these extraordinary scientists,... view more (2000-06-30)

Rural students lag behind in sub-Saharan Africa
A new study in the current issue of Comparative Education Review reveals the discrepancy between the actual state of education in sub-Saharan Africa and the educational goals outlined in the United Nation's Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) programs a decade ago.   view more (2006-12-06)

Earth Summit must address the "double bottom line": tackling poverty without costing the earth.
Governments meeting at the Earth Summit this month should agree to a global action plan to get clean energy to the third of humanity who currently lack access to modern energy, according to a paper released by ITDG today. Over two billion people in the developing world lack any access to... view more (2002-08-16)

WHO Leader Backs Call To Action For Child Survival Programmes (p 323)
The new Director-General of WHO is calling for global collaboration to tackle the crisis identified by The Lancet's Child Survival Series, which concludes in this week's issue. The series has highlighted a global public-health disaster: over 10 million children under five years dead every year; the... view more (2003-07-23)

Experts Warn Ecosystem Changes Will Continue to Worsen, Putting Global Development Goals At Risk
A landmark study released today reveals that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth - such as fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water regulation, and the regulation of regional climate, natural hazards and pests - are being degraded or used... view more (2005-03-30)

NEW FOCUS FOR UK BIOSCIENTISTS
A new bioscience federation is proposed to represent the UK bioscience community in the new Millennium. The Institute of Biology (IoB) and the UK Life Sciences Committee (UKLSC) have been looking at ways to provide a more cohesive base from which better to promote the interests of biologists in... view more (2000-02-07)

AP2000 Millennium Conference on Antennas & Propagation
Antennas and radio-wave propagation involve key technologies for space communications, navigation and remote sensing, for all terrestrial wireless transmission systems, for radar, and for a number of other applications ranging from mine detection to biological wave interactions and medical... view more (2000-03-24)

Professor Tom Meade Wins The Second MRC Millennium Medal For Outstanding Contribution To Uk Health
Professor Tom Meade, epidemiologist, visionary researcher and clinician, will be awarded the Medical Research Council's second Millennium Medal for outstanding contribution to UK health this evening (Tuesday 23 July 2002). Professor Meade's work on coagulation overturned conventional wisdom about... view more (2002-07-23)

WINNING SCHOOLS FROM ALL OVER UK TO ATTEND AWARDS CEREMONY IN LONDON ON 26 APRIL
Following the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's pioneering Internet science competition held during National Science Week (12-21 March), teams from twelve successful schools have been invited to the Science Museum in London on Monday 26 April for the first Science Race Awards... view more (1999-04-21)
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