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MONICA DOBIEl
AMERICAN research has suggested that having a strong sweet tooth may indicate an increased risk of developing alcoholism. A study performed by doctors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, found college students’ whose fathers were alcoholics, preferred super sweet drinks and strongly disliked drinks with lower sugar, in contrast to students who had no family history of substance abuse.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a research programme stretching over the next three year at the EU’s joint research centre high flux reactor, at Petten, in the Netherlands. Funded largely by the Dutch government, the Euro 30.6 million series of projects includes studies on improving reactor safety, the development of medical isotopes, fusion, waste management and developing nuclear fuel helping to eliminate weapon grade plutonium, plus basic research and training work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a negotiated agreement that would allow Swiss researchers to take part in Euratom funded nuclear studies, via the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. The move would amend an existing EU-Switzerland scientific and technology agreement and was negotiated this September by the European Commission and the Swiss government.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN research has suggested having a strong sweet tooth may indicate an increased risk of developing alcoholism. A study by doctors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine found college students’ whose fathers were alcoholics, preferred super sweet drinks and strongly disliked drinks with lower sugar.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ESTABLISHMENT of an International Foundation for the Law of the Sea has taken place at Hamburg, 21 years after the agreement of the United Nations Convention on the Law for the Sea. The Foundation will promote research, training and publications on maritime law, supporting the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, also based in Hamburg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL has been made to energy researchers across the European Union (EU) to submit informal proposals for grants from the EU Sixth Framework Programme on research, as part of a de facto review of the Euro 16.2 billion scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

MILLIONS of fish die annually at the hands of ageing power station water outfalls, when new technology could save many of their lives, marine biologists say.

Dr Peter Henderson, of Britain’s Pisces Conservation Ltd, says whiting, sprat, cod, pout, rockling, stickleback, pipefish, sea-trout and salmon are among the species at risk; seals have died too, although not for many years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS monitoring the health of Walkerton, Ontario, residents in the wake of the May 2000 E-coli drinking water disaster, have discovered new medical problems that can be traced to the contamination. Findings from the second year of a seven-year health study have showed increased incidence of kidney problems producing abnormally high volumes of urine containing protein, suggesting structural damage to kidneys.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has developed a sensitive method of measuring airborne gamma particles, which it says allows for the first time accurate comparisons to be made with ground-based sampling. The Euratom ECCOMAGS project “resulted in the collection of an unrivalled set of contemporary airborne gamma spectrometry, in-situ and ground based measurements,” it claims.…