Press Releases - May 2006
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29 May 2006 - EMBL
New potential drug target in tuberculosis
Tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest threats to public health. Researchers from the Hamburg Outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) in Berlin have now obtained a structural image of a protein that the bacterium needs for survival in human cells.
24 May 2006 - EFDA
ITER agreement initialled in Brussels
This morning, ministers from the EU, China, India, Japan, South Korea, the Russian Federation and the USA met in the Commission's Berlaymont building in Brussels to initial the agreement that they have negotiated on jointly, implementing the ITER fusion energy research project, which will be located in Cadarache, France.
19 May 2006 - EFDA
Ministers to initial ITER agreement in Brussels
Ministers representing the seven ITER parties will meet in Brussels on the 24th of May in the Commission's Berlaymont building in Brussels, to initial the agreement that they have negotiated on jointly implementing the ITER fusion energy research project, which will be located in Cadarache, France. The initialling ceremony will be followed by a press conference.
18 May 2006 - ESO
Trio of Neptunes and their Belt
Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets. The innermost planet is most probably rocky, while the outermost is the first known Neptune-mass planet to reside in the habitable zone. This unique system is likely further enriched by an asteroid belt.
17 May 2006 - CERN
CERN launches second phase of openlab industry partnership
The second phase of CERN openlab, a partnership between CERN and leading IT companies, was officially launched at a ceremony at CERN today. The industrial partners in this second phase are HP, Intel and Oracle. The second phase of CERN openlab builds on experience from the last three years, where the partnership produced many excellent technical results in the field of cluster and Grid computing. Activities for the start-up of the second phase of CERN openlab are based around a Platform Competence Centre, a Grid Interoperability Centre, and an IT security initiative.
15 May 2006 - ESA
Contract for the innovative flexible broadband satellite HYLAS
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Avanti Screenmedia Group PLC (Avanti) have announced the signature at the Case for Space Conference, in London, UK this 15 May of a contract for the implementation of HYLAS (Highly Flexible Satellite).
11 May 2006 - ESO
Twin Explosions In Gigantic Dusty Potato Crisp
ESO's Very Large Telescope, equipped with the multi-mode FORS instrument, took an image of NGC 3190, a galaxy so distorted that astronomers gave it two names. And as if to prove them right, in 2002 it fired off, almost simultaneously, two stellar explosions, a very rare event.
8 May 2006 - ESO
Physics in Universe's Youth
Using a quasar located 12.3 billion light-years away as a beacon, a team of astronomers detected the presence of molecular hydrogen in the farthest system ever, an otherwise invisible galaxy that we observe when the Universe was less than 1.5 billion years old, that is, about 10% of its present age. The astronomers find that there is about one hydrogen molecule for 250 hydrogen atoms. A similar set of observations for two other quasars, together with the most precise laboratory measurements, allows scientists to infer that the ratio of the proton to electron masses may have changed with time. If confirmed, this would have important consequences on our understanding of physics.
3 May 2006 - EMBL
Free access to world-class biological databases for European science thanks to FELICS
Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's [EMBL] European Bioinformatics Institute [EBI], the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics [SIB], the University of Cologne, Germany, and the European Patent Office launch FELICS [Free European Life-science Information and Computational Services]. The new project will give researchers unrestricted access to some of the world's most important biological databases.