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3 February 2010 - ESO
The Stars behind the Curtain
ESO is releasing a magnificent VLT image of the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born. Embedded in this scenic nebula is one of the most luminous and most compact clusters of young, massive stars in our Milky Way, which therefore serves as an excellent “local” analogue of very active star-forming regions in other galaxies. The cluster also hosts the most massive star to be “weighed” so far.

31 January 2010 - EMBL
MicroRNA: a glimpse into the past
The last ancestor we shared with worms, which roamed the seas around 600 million years ago, may already have had a sophisticated brain. Fossils cannot give us this information, but scientists at EMBL Heidelberg obtained it by studying small molecules called microRNAs. Their findings are published today in Nature.

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ESRF - Detector assembly ay beamline 9

ESRF - Detector assembly beamline 9

EIROforum is a collaboration between seven European intergovernmental scientific research organisations that are responsible for infrastructures and laboratories: CERN, EFDA-JET, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF and ILL.
It is the mission of EIROforum to combine the resources, facilities and expertise of its member organisations to support European science in reaching its full potential.
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Education

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Virtual reality: the Haptic Cow

Have you ever wondered what the inside of a cow feels like? If you want to be a veterinarian, it’s something you’ll have to get very used to indeed! Vets often find themselves needing arm-length gloves for some of the more ‘hands-on’ parts of the job, but without visual indications it can be hard to teach veterinary students about what exactly they should be feeling for.
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Scientific News

Highlighting the best of cutting-edge science in the seven EIROforum partners. For an overview please click here.

EMBL
Petra III inauguration ceremony

Petra III inaugurated

For the past two-and-a-half years, EMBL Hamburg's campus partner, the German Synchrotron Research Centre (DESY), has been converting the PETRA storage ring into a dedicated low emittance synchrotron radiation facility with leading optical parameters, named PETRA III.
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Events

MIT 2010, 29 January - 1 February 2010, Boston, USA

Radiation Hardness Workshop, 16 - 18 March 2010, Lisbon, Portugal

The target audience consists primarily of experts from the various EIROs which will have an overview of the problems and technologies in the different domains. The limited size of attendant will allow focused discussions and networking which can favor collaborative projects in the future.
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Research Collaborations

Research Collaborations

Each of the EIROforum organisations carries out world-class research in its own field. In addition, the EIROforum organisations collaborate in research projects in interdisciplinary areas.
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European and International Relations

EU Relations

Each of the EIROforum partner organisations are engaged in a wide variety of collaborations both within Europe and with institutes and countries outside of Europe. On behalf of the partnership, EIROforum entertains close links with the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU).
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