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Now playing Next Culture news Marie Curie actions, helping young researchers Marie Curie Fellowships are European research grants available to researchers regardless of their nationality and field of research. In addition to 18/07/2012
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Now playing Next futuris A new bus that's just the ticket You wait and wait and then three come at once, so the old joke about buses goes. But the bus has been getting a makeover. Umberto Guida, the 23/03/2012
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