A mirror at the heart of matter
Cern's new antiproton decelerator will allow Michael Charlton to try to explain the abundance of matter over antimatter For a laboratory famed for its accelerators and large machines, one of which is...
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Wattever next
(Photograph) - Wattever next: a visitor to the Scientific and Medical Portraits exhibition - now at the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia - examines a bust of James Watt. Photograph...
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Iran lost a soldier, but the medical world gained
A draft-dodger from Teheran escaped to Canada and a career at medicine's frontline, reports Philip Fine. You would think there would be little to do if you were hiding out in a factory bathroom for...
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No levity when we levitate our frog
A dubious honour was awardedto Sir Michael Berry for his efforts to suspend an animalin midair, but he is adamant of its scientific value Sir Michael Berry of the physics department at Bristol...
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Cutting edge
Unemployment at the age of 36 led to a degree in computer science and a new career in rehabilitation robotics After more than 20 years' employment in the Staffordshire pottery industry, I was made...
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Lib Dems plan target practice
Universities could be given the names of top-performing 16-year-olds under policies being developed by the Liberal Democrats, writes Phil Baty. The Lib Dems want to give admissions tutors the means...
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Hull staff alarmed by top 20 ambitions
Hull University has set out an ambitious £20 million plan to reposition itself as a top 20 university. Key proposals include: a 20 per cent rise in student intake within five years; doubling research...
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QAA to make mark overseas
Quality chiefs plan to "kitemark" British universities' overseas courses, after a string of quality control and mismanagement scandals. The Quality Assurance Agency has long let it be known that...
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How members of the University contribute to 'modern Oxford'
It's goodbye to Brideshead. Tim Cook is managing director of Isis Innovation, the university's technology transfer arm. Isis works closely with the research services office in the university to...
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Glittering prizes
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000 has been awarded "to scientists and inventors whose work has laid the foundation of modern information tech-nology". Half of the SEK 9 million (£630,000) prize...
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Eyewitness
An official inquiry into the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from the Bohemian city of Brno in the summer of 1945 may break a conspiracy of silence over wholesale postwar ethnic cleansing that continues...
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Slovaks get new college
Slovakia's first non-state university opened last month in Ruzomberok in central Slovakia. Formally termed a Catholic university, it has been established only after years of political wrangling....
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Access limits anger students
More than 200 students in limbo staged a sit-in outside Italy's parliament last week to put pressure on MPs to solve a legislative conflict on university access. In 1969, during nationwide student...
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Euro conclave calls for borderless study
An association representing hundreds of European higher education institutions plans to promote cross-border education using open and distance-learning teaching. Some 350 teachers and researchers...
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Feud puts science project in jeopardy
Soured relations between a Spanish university and its regional government are blocking the development of a E120 million (£72 million) science park in Alicante. Valencia's regional government, the...