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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Observatory on Nanotechnologies – charged with predicting and detecting the potential environmental health problems caused by the increasing use of nanoparticles in consumer products – is to be created. Coordinated by the Institute of Nanotechnology in Glasgow, Scotland, it will receive Euro 4 million in funding from the European Union.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE UNIVERSITY of Glasgow has announced it will create the UK’s first Institute for the Study of Serious Organised Crime (ISSOC). Its initial tasks will involve analysing the structure of Scottish organised crime, and assessing its potential threat to law enforcement and judicial agencies within Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Observatory on Nanotechnologies – charged with predicting and detecting the potential environmental health problems caused by the increasing use of nanoparticles in consumer products – is to be created. Coordinated by the Institute of Nanotechnology in Glasgow, Scotland, the new European body will receive Euro 4 million in funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme research budget and will involve 17 EU organisations with expertise in the field.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Observatory on Nanotechnologies is to be created, charged with predicting and detecting the potential environmental health problems caused by the increasing use of nanoparticles in consumer products such as tanning lotions and face creams. Coordinated by the Institute of Nanotechnology in Glasgow, Scotland, the new European body will receive Euro 4 million from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme research budget, and will involve 17 EU organisations with expertise in the field.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

SCARCELY a week goes by without volumes of newsprint or prime broadcasting slots being devoted to new and ingenious ways of mitigating climate change.

Global warming is now widely regarded the single most important issue the world faces, so it is no surprise that it is exercising the minds of the world’s most creative scientists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government has warned the Aquatic Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE) that future Bonamia ostreae outbreaks are to be expected in UK oysters. This follows cases of the disease in Whitstable, north Kent, southeast England; and West Loch Tarbert, a sea loch off the Mull of Kintyre, western Scotland.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

OFF the coast of Guyana and Surinam, north of Brazil, lie what may be some of the world’s largest untapped oil reserves. They have remained unexplored for years, thanks to a maritime border dispute between the two South American countries, the former an ex-British colony, and the latter once run by the Dutch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CANADIAN court has ruled that Canada’s only single malt whisky producer cannot use ‘Glen’ in its brand title ‘Glen Breton’, because it makes the drink appear it was made in Scotland. In reality, its distillery is in eastern Canada’s Cape Breton, a region heavily populated by victims of the Nineteenth Century’s Highland Clearances in northern Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORWEGIAN authorities are seeking to contain two outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus that has been reported amongst farmed rainbow trout in western coastal Fjordland by the Aquatic Animals Commission – (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE).…

BY MONICA DOBIE

SIGNIFICANT falls in heart attacks and strokes in France and Italy have indicated that the introduction of public smoking bans in Europe are having beneficial health effects, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has claimed.

In France, the National Sanitary Institute has just released statistics showing that the rate of admissions in emergency wards of patients with myocardial infarction and strokes has fallen 15% since French public smoking ban came into effect in January 2007, preventing smoking in restaurants hotels and casinos.…