Star turn
Family violence takes place behind closed doors. Alison Utley listens to a lecturer who makes it a community concern "I haven't told them what today's subject is," says Julie Pryke as we wait for the...
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Too many cuts
The otherwise accurate, balanced report on the proposed consolidation of the Institute of Arable Crops Research ("Final harvest at Long Ashton", THES, October 1) includes one serious piece of...
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Storm in a test tube
Natural disasters claim half a million lives every decade. Julian Hunt and Brian Lee explain how science saves lives. ABBC TV presenter covering Hurricane Floyd's arrival on the United States east...
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Clergyman's formula predicts Hollywood hits
The ideas of an 18th-century English clergyman have been used by two management scientists to forecast the success of new movies with unprecedented accuracy. Two American experts have turned to the...
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Astronomers set sights on Mercury and Venus
Outline proposals for two audacious interplanetary missions to recover rock and soil samples from Mercury and Venus have been drawn up for the European Space Agency. The studies, which were unveiled...
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Mars puts the wind up Nasa's Pathfinder probe
It gives a whole new meaning to "unsettled" weather. The bizarre winds that plague the surface of Mars and would make the life of a Martian weather forecaster practically impossible have been...
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The Sun's sister could be a brown dwarf
US scientists who have studied patterns in cometary orbits believe a distant body that may be a tiny sister star of the Sun could exist in the far reaches of the solar system. British research...
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Aussies try to sidestep pommy 'pitfalls'
An Australian research assessment system is expected to be based on the British version, writes Julia Hinde. An Australian version of the UK research assessment exercise could soon be on the cards as...
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Have we learnt from the failure over BSE?
A review of government research departments concludes that fundamental reforms are needed. Natasha Loder reports. The climate for research in government departments has not been good in recent years...
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Brussels welcomes eastern scientists
Researchers in Eastern European countries hoping to join the European Union are to be allowed to take part in projects funded by the EU's Fifth Framework Programme, as part of Brussels's strategy to...
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First link with Latin America
Researchers at European universities and other institutions will be given opportunities to work with science and technology experts from China, Russia and Argentina, under cooperation agreements...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EPPLEY FOUNDATION Support for advanced scientific research The...
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Gates and MIT join forces
Microsoft is to spend $25 million turning the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a living laboratory for the development and testing of new teaching models and educational tools. The company...
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Student gets aid to fight 'false claim' suit
An undergraduate has been granted legal aid to seek damages against Northumbria University in a claim for breach of contract and for the "negligent misstatements of facts" in the university's...
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SA sets up troubleshooter system
The South African government is to clamp down firmly on troubled universities and technikons by granting the education minister power to appoint administrators to run mismanaged institutions for up...