From today's UK papers
Financial Times Scientists at North Carolina State University hope to develop better protective clothing by incorporating additives in the fibre rather than as a coating. French government scientists...
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APPOINTMENTS Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences Lawrence Freedman , professor and head of the school of social science and public policy at King's College, London, has been elected...
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An invitation to dine at the periodic table
When Lutz Tietze hung up his lab coat, his students presented him with a collection of recipes from the world's top organic chemists. Karen Gold found the work far from formulaic. A Buchner funnel,...
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Five-year plan is a ray of light
A programme investigating rain forest dynamics has won new funding. Wendy Barnaby reports A new paradigm in tropical ecology research is emerging from work in Southeast Asia, and is so successful it...
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World awaits answer to $400m gene question
Researchers around the world are set to announce on Monday the completion of 90 per cent of one of the most exciting projects in the history of science: the sequencing of the human genome. Costing...
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Dazzling tail lights
There is a new Moon on Tuesday, so the sky should be at its darkest. That will be perfect for viewing one of the most dazzling phenomena the heavens can offer - if it turns up. At about 10pm that...
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Shaping the land that has shaped us
Remaking the Landscape
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Locked in free market's embrace
India Unbound
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Still want sun, sand and sex on the beach?
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
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Exiled son who saved the state
The Generalissimo's Son
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Posing secular questions for certain zealots
Jihad - Jihad - The Shade of Swords - Inside Al-Qaeda - The Clash of Fundamentalisms
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Divergent views of a Chinese sage
An Introduction to Confucianism . First Edition
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Out of India
Contemporary South Asia (three times a year) - South Asia Research (two issues a year)
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AUST quality defended
Whistleblowers was critical of the Asian University of Science and Technology and its association with Imperial College (THES, February 25). I am proud to have been the founding dean of engineering...
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Asian crisis to cost Pounds 300m
British universities are redirecting their overseas recruitment efforts as they prepare for a collapse in their Asian Tigers market. Institutions in the United Kingdom stand to lose over Pounds 300...