Cutting edge
Meteorites are fragments of history that can tell us about the beginnings of life itself I work at the Natural History Museum, leading a team of seven scientists, including two students, who...
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A Wellcome home?
A bitter battle is being fought in Cambridge over plans to expand the Wellcome Trust's genome research centre. Kam Patel looks at the possible outcomes and the messages they will send In a few months...
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Turning grey matter into green stuff
This week, The THES joins forces with the Royal Institution to host 'Making Money from Ideas'. Here, panel chairmen David Thomas, David Auckland and John Ashworth discuss some key issues affecting...
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The nose job that helps you breath more easily
An air pollution monitor small enough to wear on the wrist could be built using a new technique developed by physicists at the University of Birmingham. The device could alert asthmatics to traffic...
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Signing up for the university of life
Putting yourself at the mercy of those you are trying to study may not sound an entirely sensible idea, but Ruth Emond, a teaching fellow from Stirling University's applied social science department...
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New uni bucks decline
Applications for places at De Montfort University are up 18 per cent over the corresponding date last year, the largest percentage rise for any university. It is followed by Warwick, Aston and...
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Failure to go green should be penalised
By 2010, universities and further education colleges that do not meet defined levels of sustainable development in management and curriculum could have their funding council grants withheld. The...
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'Standards' risk appearing meaningless
It may be "pointless" to try to establish nationally recognised degree standards, say experts commissioned by the Quality Assurance Agency. Without better direction from the QAA, the standards may be...
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Porn stars join the conference circuit
Pornography is boosting income at Loughborough University. Delegates staying at Burleigh Court, the university's purpose-built conference centre, are offered a choice of 12 films, costing Pounds 6.95...
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Most vegetable life is there
The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management
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Solace for the souls of the tortured
The Good Listener: Helen Bamber
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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 novel that owes its success to word-of-mouth recommendations: "Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory...
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Good company despite the lists
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Pour l'américaine à Paris
Insiders' French
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Our diseased ancestors
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology