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Research intelligence: Advances on retractions
Voluntary guidelines unveiled to help journal editors decide when to withdraw work. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Leader: Reiki riles while Rome burns
The wellbeing of individuals matters, but what matters more is the wellbeing of a sector facing swingeing cuts
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University of Leicester - Space is golden
Fifty years of space research is being celebrated at the University of Leicester, with tributes to Ken Pounds, one of the professors who established the discipline at the institution. Among the...
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University of Sheffield - Somali outreach
An outreach project has been launched by the University of Sheffield to raise the educational aspirations of the city's Somali community. Run with partners including the Sheffield Somali Community...
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University of Birmingham - HIV guidelines questioned
Discrepancies in World Health Organisation guidelines for treating children with HIV/Aids have been identified by scientists at the University of Birmingham. Counts of a cell called CD4 T are used to...
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University of Aberdeen - Artefacts opened up online
A project to open up Scotland's important museum collections to an international online audience has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. Scottish universities hold more than 1.8 million...
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Heriot-Watt University - Snow excuse for falling behind
A Scottish university's online-study programme has helped snowed-in residents of Highland villages to continue studying for their Higher and Advanced Higher examinations. Heriot-Watt University's...
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Queen Mary, University of London - The Woolworths triangle
The locations of the now-defunct Woolworths chain of stores have been found to form "precise geometric patterns" by a researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. Matt Parker, of the School of...
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Queen's University Belfast - Time to care
A part-time social work degree is to be introduced at Queen's University Belfast. The five-year bachelor of social work will see students attend classes for two and a half days a week. "People with...
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Institute of Education - Bring the noise
Parents can rest easy - the thumping music coming from their children's bedrooms does not impede their ability to study, research at the Institute of Education, University of London has found. From...
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King's College London - New way to the heart
An MRI scan has been successfully used in place of X-ray imaging in an operation to widen a heart valve. The technique involves using a new fibreglass guide wire to direct a catheter through a blood...
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Royal Holloway/Lancaster - Driven to distraction
The potential dangers of "sat-navs" are being studied by a team of psychologists at Royal Holloway, University of London and spatial scientists at Lancaster University. Although the use of mobile...
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Kent/Ghent - Rhyming couple get closer
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the universities of Kent and Ghent. Julia Goodfellow, Kent's vice-chancellor, signed the deal during a visit to the Belgian university to bolster...
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The Open University - Matter of birth and life
A new distance-learning programme for Ethiopia's 31,000 rural community health workers has been awarded $4 million (£2.4 million) by the United Nations Children's Fund. A cohort of 1,000 community...