Beware of the eco crisis mongers
WESTERN predictions of environmental crises caused by the feckless management of natural resources in developing countries are often inaccurate and misleading, British and United States scientists...
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Jesuit priest plugs his mission
John Joseph Puthenkalam has an intimidatingly impressive academic record. It begins with bachelor's degrees in economics, philosophy, theology and education in his native India and from Japan; goes...
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Breakthrough in tissue transplant
Safer and easier transplant treatments for serious degenerative disorders of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's chorea, could result from work at Cardiff and Sheffield...
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Ethicists tread the moral maze
Public concern over euthanasia, foetal pain, assisted fertilisation and gene therapy has left western ethicists working overtime to draw the elusive line between "right" and "wrong". But there will...
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Sun and air treat water
SUNLIGHT and oxygen are all that is needed to make dirty water clean enough to drink, according to the latest microbiology research. The discovery, by Rob Reed, a senior microbiologist at the...
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Engineering leader attacks research cuts
BRITAIN's structural engineering, once the most advanced in the world, is languishing because of lack of research funds, a leading academic has claimed. Nutan Subedi, senior lecturer in Dundee...
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Insurance firms facecost of genetic secrets
People who know they have adverse genetic traits, but are not compelled to declare it to insurance firms, could expose the industry to extra costs, according to a study by Angus Macdonald of Heriot-...
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Grants cut hits postgrads
Australian universities will have to slash the number of postgraduate students taking coursework programmes over the next two years because of federal grant cuts. Nearly 30,000 or almost a third of...
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Aussies look at Irish heritage
Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne has struck a unique agreement with Dublin Trinity College in Ireland to enable postgraduate student exchanges between the two institutions, writes Geoff...
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Dorms offer taste of the good life
When Christian Riser told his classmates at the University of Maryland that he lived on a dormitory floor where smoking and drinking were banned, they asked him what on earth he did for fun. "People...
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Women break the traditional mould
Women now outnumber men at universities and junior colleges in Japan, according to the latest education ministry figures. Some 48.3 per cent of female high-school graduates are taking courses in...
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Historian's Nazi expose rejected
A review published under the auspices of the ministry of the economy and finance has rejected a scholarly article on links between French firms and the Nazi war machine. The rejection came last year...
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War of new campus
The University of Alicante and the Valencian regional government are locked in a bitter struggle over plans for a new institution in the city. In an outbreak of open warfare, Andres Pedre$o, Alicante...
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Vocational reform cannot afford delay
Throughout October there has been a bitter row rumbling over national vocational qualifications. How many were taking them, how many achieved them, had they done more than displace existing...
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Science suffers from smiling suits in studios
One year on from the Wolfendale Report on Public Understanding of Science a number of initiatives have been enacted to encourage scientists to leave the safety of their research labs and explain...