Where the heart is, but not the incentive to stay
Northern Ireland has the potential to thrive if it encourages young people to study there, says George Bain Next week, United States president Bill Clinton returns to Northern Ireland. For all its...
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The fundraising deal: we get cash, you get kudos
This week, all but one of the trade unions with substantial membership in higher education embarked on industrial action over pay. No one has apparently noticed. But two other stories hit the...
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Soapbox: the government's paid up, so why can't bosses?
Now the government has increased HE funding, employers should begin negotiations with staff over pay and conditions, says Tom Wilson. On Tuesday, members of the six higher education unions took part...
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Why I... believe angels are making a return
I first got interested in angels when researching my dissertation for my theology degree. I put articles in the Christian press and local church magazines and got 90 replies from people who wanted to...
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A very public contract
Society has given science a 'licence to practise', but what should the conditions of that licence be? Aaron Klug considers the future. One of the highlights of the year was a report by the House of...
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Cutting edge: Eric Bonabeau
A fear of ants becomes a fascination as an engineer applies their genius to computers. As a kid, I was terrified of insects. I remember with retrospective anguish holidays in the south of France,...
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Fancy a look at my lab, darling?
Artists' creativity soars when they are courting. Scientists, it seems, make discoveries at a similar sexual pitch. Raj Persaud reports Is male scientific creativity basically an attempt to...
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Add a little onion to make a healthy burger
Raising the amount of reducing sugars such as glucose in hamburgers can halve the quantity of possible carcinogens generated during cooking, scientists have found. Experts at the Tokyo University of...
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Footprints are key to explosion of life
Fossilised trackways from the Grand Canyon, resembling little more than the idle doodles of some ancient stonecarver, are helping scientists trace out the emergence of complex life on earth. The...
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In utero injection could cure cystic fibrosis
A radical gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, delivered to the foetus while it is still in the womb, is a step closer following the successful transference of transgenes to the lungs of five monkeys....
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Wellcome centre to close
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, based at Oxford University, is to be disbanded following a year of rows and inquiries. The trust said a new director had not been...
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Equality body left leaderless
A major university initiative to combat discrimination in higher education employment suffered a setback this week when it was left without a head. The announcement that Phil Barnet, director of...
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Safety at Spanish BSE lab queried
Spain's BSE testing centre is fighting allegations that laboratory conditions at its University of Zaragoza base are unsafe. There has been a complaint that dissection equipment is shared with other...
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Latest international news
Campus victory for gay couples Gay couples have won the right to “marry” in the gothic chapel of Duke University in North Carolina. Duke already allows same-sex commitment ceremonies for...
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Researchers guilty of misconduct
The General Medical Council found two researchers from King's College London medical school guilty of serious professional misconduct, both for dishonesty, in separate cases this week. A third...