Poor control spawns super rat
Haphazard attempts to tackle rodent infestation are raising the risk of poison-resistant rats spreading disease across the UK, scientists have warned. Research by Gai Murphy, senior lecturer at...
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Fee hike threatens students' chance to meet Nobelists
British participation in an international meeting of Nobel laureates is in danger because of a lack of interest from funding bodies. The annual meeting of Nobel prizewinners in Lindau, Germany,...
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£1bn UK factory to solve mystery of matter
One of the great mysteries of nature - why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe - could be probed by a new £1 billion neutrino factory that physicists want built in the UK. The...
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Digital archive dates too fast
Universities and research bodies are being warned that they risk losing vast amounts of digital information unless new techniques are developed to conserve it. The key problems are obsolescent...
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Findings: Sex change mongooses
The term "gender bender" has often been applied to pop stars because of their ambiguous style of dress. But one species of mammal has taken this further, temporarily developing physical...
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Findings: Skilled fliers hitch a ride
This month, 3.5 billion insects weighing a metric tonne in total biomass will fly over an area of Britain the size of Hyde Park, writes Steve Farrar. The extent of entomological air traffic in...
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Medical schools to share skill online
A scheme to allow health professionals in developing countries access to the best specialist expertise could be a reality within two years. More than 50 leading medical schools from 16 countries are...
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UK to teach Michael Fish skills to Russian weather starlets
Russian TV weather presenters - chosen more for their attractiveness, femininity and legs than meteorological expertise - are to get scientific training with the help of the UK Met Office College. "...
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Nashville
All of Tennessee's public colleges, including six universities and 12 community colleges, will shut on Wednesday after state legislators failed to set a budget. The separate seven-campus University...
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Rome
The Santa Lucia Foundation is to contribute €60 million (£38 million) towards laboratories for the new European Brain Research Institute in Rome. The institute, whose president is Nobel-winning...
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Bangui
The president of the Central Africa Republic has appealed to Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for immediate aid to pay staff at the country's National University. Lecturers, who have received no...
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Toronto
The University of Toronto has received a C$45 million (£19.7 million) endowment for the humanities and social sciences from its chancellor, Henry Jackman. The donation represents almost a third of...
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Private boost for poor Turk region
A region of Turkey devastated by war is to be home to a new university. Bilkent University, one of the country's leading private institutions, plans to build a university in the predominantly Kurdish...
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EU to water down data law
A draft European Union directive that would have forced universities to release research data for immediate free commercial exploitation has been toned down after critics pointed out that it would...
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Italian fraud team unearths forged tomato paste and fake olive oil
The tin of tomato paste, its label gaudily decorated with a Neapolitan peasant girl in traditional costume and a smoking Vesuvius in the background, looks authentic. "This is the kind traditionally...