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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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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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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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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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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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..but it's cold comfort for our hot times
Climate Change and Biodiversity - Climate Change and Africa
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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...
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Spiritual take on earthly problems
Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia
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Alliance to fill gap in online market
A group of top research universities, Universitas 21, has launched an online MBA as a first step to capturing a $111 billion (£66.7 billion) untapped postgraduate market. U21 Global, a partnership...
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A legal legacy on which the sun has never set
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
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Commonwealth Science Council to sharpen focus on technology and innovation
Brussels, 25 Jun 2003 The Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) is to revive itself with a renewal plan which will outline ways in which the organisation can increase its focus on technology and...
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Nature highlights use of space imagery to study Indonesian fires
Paris, 06 Nov 2002 Writing in tomorrow's issue of Nature magazine, a team of European and Indonesian scientists detail their use of ESA and NASA satellite imagery to help measure huge amounts of...