No 1 place to find number twos
Need to get to the bottom of that elusive research on excrement? Whether your quest is for the diet of those living in the Roman empire or honeybee faeces in Southeast Asia, an Alberta University...
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Minaret among the dreaming spires
Oxford's Islamic centre celebrates the faith's traditions - and blends in with the city domes, says Mandy Garner, a year on from the London bombings For an institution that started life in a wooden...
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Trials on H5N1 bird flu vaccine show encouraging results
Brussels, 19 Dec 2005 The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Pasteur has announced that preliminary results of clinical trials of an candidate H5N1 pre-pandemic influenza vaccine demonstrated a...
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Japan's ALOS in orbit: ESA will deliver its data to European researchers
Paris, 25 Jan 2006 ALOS, Japan's latest Earth Observation satellite, was successfully launched at 02:33 CET (10:33 Japan time) on 24 January. Environmental data and imagery from ALOS will be provided...
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Fine-tuning puts picture in much sharper focus
With its improved accuracy and the inclusion of even more information, the second Times Higher World Rankings is the best guide to the world's top universities, says Martin Ince Today The Times...
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EU project makes tools to protect the complex inter-dependencies connecting key information-based infrastructures in network industries
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 The Commission has launched a new seven million euro Integrated Project which aims to shed light on the increasingly complex interconnections between key information-based...
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In line for a licking from our mother tongue
Universities in other European countries are increasingly offering courses conducted in English. This could have serious implications for recruitment of students to UK institutions, Anna Fazackerley...
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Bombings spark fears of foreign rush to cancel UK study plans
Terrorism fears could lead overseas students to cancel plans to study in the UK, with dire consequences for universities' income and their share of the international recruitment market, experts...
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Oases with a loud tick, tick ringing through the air
Half of the world's most densely populated cities are located in areas vulnerable to earth-quakes - and there is a very good reason why. James Jackson explains It has already been a bad century for...
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Greens want FP7 funding for alternative medicine
Brussels, 13 Apr 2005 The Greens and the European Free Alliance in the European Parliament have called for a stronger homeopathy presence in Europe and urged the Commission to fund research into...
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Freedom row fails to sink Warwick's Singapore plan
Warwick University set out to renegotiate plans for a £300 million campus in Singapore despite a decision by its governing council not to proceed with the original proposal because of staff concerns...
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Student living is priciest in Britain
Overseas students are getting better at finding the best deal. As a result, Geoff Maslen reports, the UK risks losing out to cheaper competitors Britain has the highest living costs among the main...
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Sacred storeys open to congregational devotion
Temple to Love
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Today's news
Qinetiq float in fresh trouble as scientists sue for $400m The controversial flotation of the defence technology group Qinetiq ran into fresh trouble yesterday after Cambridge University scientists...
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Peruvian Analysis of Potential Cases of Biopiracy, Prepared for the 24-28 April Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Fol
Geneva, 12 Apr 2006 ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL CASES OF BIOPIRACY The Case of Camu Camu (Myrciaria Dubia) INTRODUCTION In recent years, Peru has made it clear that the protection of its genetic resources...