Dublin:World watch
Plans for the ¤39 million (Pounds 26 million) National College of Ireland in the Dublin docklands are to be scaled back after official documents revealed it has not been sanctioned by the...
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Smart plants hold the key
Biotechnology and genetic engineering may offer the solution to Australia's salinity crisis, with scientists hopeful of manipulating agricultural crops to mimic natural vegetation. "I don't think...
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Apply saline solution
In the last of our series on research in Southern Hemisphere countries, Julia Hinde looks at how salinity is causing a national water supply crisis in Australia. Overleaf we return to South Africa...
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Digging deep for reserves of gold
As supplies of gold, the backbone of South Africa's economy, are depleted, researchers are exploring mining five kilometres underground. Karen MacGregor reports on this and other fruitful...
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White man who speaks in many dark tongues
Nottingham-born Bob Dixon speaks five Aboriginal languages - just 245 to go. Julia Hinde reports There were probably 250 separate languages - each as different as French and German," explains Bob...
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Cambridge biotech cluster in planning setback
The growth of the Cambridge biotechnology cluster received a knock-back this week after deputy prime minister John Prescott threw out plans for a Pounds 100 million science park alongside the...
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Franchise clampdown hits Israeli students
The University of Birmingham has been barred from registering any new students in Israel, becoming the third high-profile victim of a clampdown on franchising by the Israeli university regulators....
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Edinburgh draws fine line between copying and cheating
Edinburgh University is refusing to brand as exam cheats almost 120 computer science students, despite admitting they collaborated to a degree "beyond what is acceptable". The university insisted it...
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Shadowing a philanthropologist
Savaging the Civilised
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Ancient prescriptions in tablet form
The Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume Four
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a writer who once co-authored a novel with Joseph Conrad: " This is the saddest story I have ever...
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God is dead: long live the genes
The Genetic Gods
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Hit and myth: Barthes's inglorious life and times
Roland Barthes, Phenomenon and Myth
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Music that won't disturb the neighbours
The Clavichord