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Celebrating the bicentenary of the “Prix de l’Institut” awarded to Sir Humphry (...)
On 25th June 2008, a reception was held at the “Résidence de France” in London to commemorate the bicentenary of the “Prix de l'Institut” awarded to Sir Humphry Davy and to celebrate the continuous exchange of scientific knowledge between France and the UK, in particular through the mobility of (...)
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Scientific conferences in the frame of the French Presidency of the (...)
Several scientific conferences will take place in France in the frame of the French Presidency of the European Union .
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Entente cordiale scholarships
The Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme is a prestigious bi-lateral awards scheme that funds British postgraduate students who want to study in France and French students who want to study in the UK. Funded for the most part by the private sector in both countries the scheme provides funding (...)
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Promising Beam Circulates Around the Ring at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)! (Special Feature)
Published on 22 September 2008The community of particle physicists has been eagerly waiting for the first run of the proton beam in the heart of the outstanding 27-kilometer LHC instrument. On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 several seconds before the beam was injected into the rin ...
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GOCE or the Amazing Map of the Earth's Gravity Field (Special Feature)
Published on 22 September 2008Next October 5 the GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission satellite will be launched. The goal of this first of four ESA missions dubbed Earth Explorer, which officially got off the ground in 1999, is to identify and ...
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CinemaScience - Bringing Film et Science Closer Together (Special Feature)
Published on 22 September 2008Science gave birth to film that feeds off science, admittedly to stimulate men and women's imagination, but also to teach them and help them understand things... So why not continue the productive dialogue of film and science by creating a new space ...
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Scientific seminar
Web Archiving
What did blogs look like at the turn of the last century? How did the candidates in the 2002 and 2007 French presidential elections, or the British General Elections of 2005, present themselves and their campaigns on their websites? Web archives, begun a few years ago, can now be accessed by the general public. Gildas Illien of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris) and Stephen Bury of the British Library will explain how web material (...)
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