Portrait of a doomed Sea
Paris, 28 Jul 2003 Earth's youngest desert is shown in this July MERIS satellite image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, over the last 40 years the Aral Sea...
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Target woman
Tuberculosis is no long-gone scourge but a deadly modern-day disease that is increasingly resistant to treatment. Anna Fazackerley meets a woman seeking new ways to attack the bacterium that causes...
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The rise of occidental heroes and villains
Civilised or overly materialistic? Alistair Bonnett asks how the West is seen through Eastern eyes. Many academic fashions spring from nowhere and return there soon after. The study of occidentalism...
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Call yourself cosmopolitan?
Embracing global opportunity is about more than cashing in on overseas students, says Frank Furedi. One of the most exciting features of a university is its embrace of global influences. Ideas have...
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Saving Private Hubble
Paris, 09 Jul 2004 To study neighbouring planets, distant stars and galaxies light years away, astronomers have constantly strived to improve their instruments. But for years, our Earth's atmosphere...
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How many 'squirrels' would you be given?
League tables have proliferated since the weekly US News and World Report launched its consumer-oriented rankings in 1983. Now the Princeton Review covers the field from the performance of faculty to...
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Borderline behaviour
Wild West China
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..but it's cold comfort for our hot times
Climate Change and Biodiversity - Climate Change and Africa
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Latest international news
Spider gets teeth into central Asia Scientists from Altai State University have warned that the Karakurt or Mediterranean black widow spider ( Latrodectus tredecimguttatus ) is on the increase in...
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New research suggests that ancient Greeks got their number system from Egypt
Brussels, 03 Oct 2003 The counting system used by Ancient Greece's greatest thinkers to carry out their calculations was probably invented by their key trading partner, Egypt, new research suggests....
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New research suggests that ancient Greeks got their number system from Egypt
Brussels, 03 Oct 2003 The counting system used by Ancient Greece's greatest thinkers to carry out their calculations was probably invented by their key trading partner, Egypt, new research suggests....
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Today's news
Students face 40% rent rise at Oxford Oxford undergraduates face rent increases of up to 40 per cent after bursars scrapped historic cost of living subsidies. The increases this autumn, revealed in a...
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Merc perks
The Asia Pacific Management Centre in Singapore has hit on a novel way to recruit and retain students - offer them the chance to win a Mercedes-Benz. Every student who enrols on a degree or higher...
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Diversity felled by a taste for tea
Tropical Pioneers
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Global e-university yetto get off the ground
An ambitious joint venture between universities from four continents has had teething problems. Geoff Maslen reports from Melbourne Nearly 18 months after its announcement as the "world's premier...