The Competitiveness Council, a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade and industry, agreed on the target following a two-day meeting in Brussels last week.
A GATHERING of physicists and science-fiction authors discusses star travel, the Hinkley Point nuclear plant is approved in Britain and cuckoldry affects few Flemish men (we're 98% sure).
Leading education experts debated the topic of teacher retention at the recent Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, a gathering of fields ranging from science to education discussing social, political and economic problems and solutions.
There will be a dinner and speeches in her honor at SETIcon, a gathering of astronomers, astronauts and science-fiction fans in Santa Clara this weekend.
Yet the alphabet soup of initials and acronyms associated with the field makes things even more daunting, as some noted this week in Denver at the World Climate Research Program's Open Science Conference, a gathering of some 1,600 international climate researchers.
David Willetts, the universities and science minister, told a gathering of geeks in London that the costs of these breaches has doubled in a year.The coalition has set up research centres at a dozen universities, promises cyber classes in schools and is bankrolling a free online course for the curious.
The larger stipends come after months of protests, including a gathering of 800 scholars outside the gates of the science ministry here.
Under the influence of a mysterious (though seemingly benign) power, this week The New Yorker brings you something unusual: a gathering of the living and the dead for a special Science Fiction issue.
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