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By Monica Dobie

A new explosives scanner, quick to use and able to probe tiny cracks, has won a European research award. The technology has been developed in a Euro 760,000 project by the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences; the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava; Czech high-tech company RS Dynamics with Spanish engineering company SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has launched an innovative research project developing the plasma (ionised heated gas) treatment of textiles, which can improve their adhesive properties, amongst other benefits. The Czech Republic’s Spolsin Spol and Sintex, are planning to work with Poland’s University Of Bilsko-Biala; and Wroclaw University Of Technology; along with the Slovak University Of Technology, in a Euro 1.14 million project lasting three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

ONE of the more colourful (and thankfully less deadly) aspects of Russia’s mini-war with Georgia in August was the simultaneous attach by hackers on Georgian Internet sites, especially those of its government.,

Ones of these were crashed by ‘denial of service’ attacks, where masses of data are sent to particular sites until they cannot handle the megabytes and closedown.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has launched an innovative research project developing the plasma (ionised heated gas) treatment of textiles, which can improve their impermeability, absorbance, printability and adhesive properties, amongst other benefits. The Czech Republic’s Spolsin Spol and Sintex, are planning to work with Poland’s University Of Bilsko-Biala; and Wroclaw University Of Technology; along with the Slovak University Of Technology, in a Euro 1.14 million project lasting three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TIGHTER financial and customs controls have been proposed by the European Commission, designed to prevent Iran’s nuclear industry from acquiring materials useful for their controversial nuclear programme. In a revised regulation proposed for approval by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers, Brussels wants cargo aircraft and merchant vessels owned or controlled by Iran Air Cargo and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line to submit pre-arrival or pre-departure information, for all goods brought into or out of the EU.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

By Keith Nuthall

European academics are preparing to gather at a high level conference to discuss the problems being caused to higher education by a sharp decline in the European population. The debates at the European University Association (EUA) conference comes as the latest figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat confirm the number of young people in European countries is already shrinking and will get smaller.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has frozen its partnership and cooperation negotiations with Russia over the Georgia conflict, just three months after the talks were launched following long delays. An emergency meeting of the EU Council of Ministers has ordered no meetings will take place with Moscow on the agreement until its "troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August", prior to its short war with Georgia.…

BY MARK ROWE

FOLLOWING the extended frenzy that saw multinational companies move into eastern Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s, several markets in the region are approaching the maturity of western Europe. And while Russia lags behind in general terms, the micro-economies of Moscow and St Petersburg are similarly saturated by high-end brands and developed consumer choice and tastes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONSTRUCTION materials taxes, such as Britain’s aggregates tax, should be used widely to encourage the building sector to waste fewer materials, the European Environment Agency has said. In a new report, it claimed the British tax gave the construction sector confidence when purchasing materials, "since part of the levy revenues have been used to support the development of quality standards for recycled aggregates".…