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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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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