Model plant mapped
The gene sequence of a cress will have a huge impact on agriculture. Clare Sansom reports. Any day now the draft sequence of the human genome will be completely published. It will be seen as the most...
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Cutting edge
Imagine choosing a shoe style on the net, sending your digital foot and waiting for delivery - welcome to rapid manufacturing. Within the next ten years rapid manufacturing will largely replace...
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The cell to end diabetics' hell
A Canadian team is using a non-surgical procedure to enable severely diabetic people to throw away their insulin. Philip Fine reports. A Canadian team has successfully treated ten severely diabetic...
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Cats taste cream of travel
Strathclyde University engineering student Neil Black wants to make sure that travel is cool for cats, writes Olga Wojtas. Mr Black, a fourth-year student in Strathclyde's design, manufacture and...
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Star Carr is an ageing site
One of the seats of Stone-Age civilisation in the British Isles has just become even older. Experts have been able to date the settlement of Star Carr, where the first evidence of wood-working and...
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A history of birthday surprises for geologists
Age does matter when we're talking about earth, finds Cherry Lewis. How old is the earth? In 1899 the age favoured by most geologists was 100 million years (Ma), although estimates ranged from 3...
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Put the fizz in physics
The physical sciences are often seen as hard and boring but one of the 24 learning and teaching support subject centres is aiming to change all that. Sharon-Ann Holgate reports. Do you want to make a...
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Adjustment to UK student life
Walking into a crowded student union bar can bea daunting experience for a Chinese student, coming from a culture where bars are not necessarily socially acceptable. Although Chinais changing and...
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Star Turn
Using computer simulations of molecular structures has enabled students at Essex University to visualise chemical processes and has improved their grades. Jennifer Currie reports. Teaching life...
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Wales will let you lord it for just Pounds 30,000
Social climbers with up to Pounds 30,000 to spare are being offered the chance to impress their friends with a bona fide aristocratic title in a money-making scheme being run by the University of...
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V-cs attack NHS revamp
Vice-chancellors have warned that proposals to change the way the National Health Service trains its staff and plans staffing could undermine the expansion in medical education announced last week....
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Liverpool archaeologist joins rush to rescue Turkish slice of history
Archaeologists from around the world are engaged in a desperate race to save the ancient city of Zeugma on the Euphrates River in southern Turkey. Mosaics regarded by archaeologists as some of the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, is from a contemporary US novelist who calls himself a "failed ascetic": " He speaks in your voice, American,...
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Close eyes and see
Sight Unseen - Representation and Recognition in Vision
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Diving into an ocean of wonders in pursuit of the marvellous
The Artificial Kingdom