The Open University played host to a debate about the huge sums spent on the fight against Aids and other killer conditions in developing countries. Discussion at the two-day meeting in Milton Keynes...
A robot scientist created at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge may be the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, which is called Adam...
The possibility that breast-feeding can prevent post-natal depression is being explored by researchers at the University of Essex. The £240,000 project, funded by the Economic and Social Research...
Rare poisonous mammals could be saved from extinction by researchers at the University of Bath. Scientists are working with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to study the Hispaniolan solenodon...
A university has won accreditation from one of the world's top technology companies that will, it claims, give its students a jump-start in the creative industries. Anglia Ruskin University has been...
Listening to music by heavy metal bands such as Motorhead might not sound like the best way to relieve a headache. But a researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University has found that listening to...
The popular belief that dog owners look like their pets may be correct, suggest the results of a study at Bath Spa University. Researchers from the psychology department asked people to match photos...
AustraliaHigh-risk projects 'need support'A Nobel laureate in medicine has warned that scientific research in Australia is being hamstrung by a systemic failure to support high-risk projects and...
Critics fear that giving teachers cash based on class satisfaction will damage standards. Jon Marcus reports
Millions are on offer for cross-subject complex-systems approaches to tackle urgent concerns. Neha Popat reports
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThe AHRC Research Grants (Standard) Schemes are intended to support well-defined research projects to enable individuals to collaborate with, and bring benefits to...
As QMU head, Petra Wend hopes to build on changes already made to one of Scotland's smallest institutions
Peter Downes has been appointed acting principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Dundee. Professor Downes, vice-principal and head of the College of Life Sciences, will perform the role...
Tribunal found Liverpool John Moores guilty of victimising scholar, writes Melanie Newman
New clauses in academics' contracts at the Glasgow School of Art that set annual targets for research income have been criticised by the University and College Union.The clauses call on researchers...