Mandy Garner took a crack team of students and asked them to rise to the challenge of an admissions exam being roadtested at Cambridge University. Your starter for ten. A solid cube has 12 edges. If...
Adrian Mourby meets jack of all trades and tour leader Roderick Swanston as part of our intellectual tourism series. "I am a jack of all trades," says Roderick Swanston. "And Master of Arts. My job...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 In its annual report for 2003, published on 9 August, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has expressed its concern at the ageing of the nuclear workforce and the lack...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 Augmented reality may sound like a futuristic concept, but for someone carrying out complex industrial repairs or maintenance, the availability of computer generated information...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 A team of French researchers has found evidence to suggest that young people may be more likely to contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human form of BSE, than adults....
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 The Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres in Germany has awarded its prestigious Erwin Schrödinger Prize for interdisciplinary research to a team of physicists and...
Brussels, 11 Aug 2004 A seminar on European funding for international collaboration will take place in York, UK, on 17 September. The seminar will demonstrate how funds can be accessed to enable...
Paris, 11 Aug 2004 Perspective view of Olympus Mons caldera This perspective view, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows the complex caldera...
Permission to clone human embryos granted Britain's fertility watchdog has, for the first time, given the go-ahead for a team of university scientists to clone human embryos for medical research. The...
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Students not as clever as they used to be More than a third of lecturers consider the academic ability of university students to be worse than it was ten years ago and more than one in four believes...
Brussels, 10 Aug 2004 As a result of the first call for proposals under the Sixth Framework Programme's (FP6) Food Quality and Safety priority, 24 research projects and 12 specific support actions (...