Legal lions lie with lambs
Should animals have the same basic legal rights as people? Yes, says Steven Wise, who was incensed by scientists' treatment of a young chimp. In the mid-1980s, a tiny group of Londoners accused the...
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Castaway with no soap and a flatulent boffin
They can split atoms and clone sheep, but maroon scientists on a desolate island minus their gadgetry and can they conjure up a bar of soap? The BBC sent the Open University's Mike Bullivant and four...
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E-volution, not revolution
The first signs are emerging that people are moving away from using the internet -so have universities over-reacted to the e-commerce frenzy? Harriet Swain reports. Dot-coms, e-commerce and web-based...
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A new media chair
The London School of Economics is about to appoint its first professor in new media and the internet. The post will cover research into anything from the social, political and cultural consequences...
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E-business degree
Brunel University will launch a BSc in e-commerce this September. Time has been so tight in pulling together the programme that it will have to be launched through clearing. But David Sims, head of...
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Hatching plots from a Pounds 2.4 million Nesta egg
Next week sees the first Nesta fellowships -no-strings-attached grants for people with good ideas but too little time to pursue them. Anne Sebba offers an exclusive preview. The United Kingdom may...
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The making of a career in crime
David Wilson (below) is striving to give 'jailbirds' a voice through his research into prison study and by righting miscarriages of justice. Claire Sanders talks to the one-time prison governor It...
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Cutting edge
Research into prion proteins suggests how the spongiform encephalopathies, such as BSE, become pathogenic One beneficial outcome of the BSE saga has been the re-emergence of interest in the...
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SA tightens its grip on ethics
Scandal over falsified breast cancer trial results has led to new ethical guidelines for researchers. Karen MacGregor reports from Durban South Africa is to monitor medical research more carefully to...
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Australian medicine given some northern exposure
The new James Cook medical school in Northern Queensland is bringingdoctors to under-represented regions and focusing on the health problems of its Aboriginal population. Julia Hinde reports from...
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Puffin birds are master builders
The puffin has been revealed as one of the master builders of the bird world. Research in Shetland by a team from the Institute for Oceanography in Kiel, Germany, has found burrows dug by the seabird...
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Meteorite turned Mexico to mush
The meteorite that punctuated the age of the dinosaurs would have transformed a vast region of the Yucatan Peninsula into a seething fluid of pulverised rock, computer simulations have suggested....
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Glass class
(Photograph) - John Preston, official glass-blower at the University of East Anglia, is to retire in 2002 and the search is on to find his successor. He is looking for an experienced person to train...
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Confused? You will be
The University of Abertay, Dundee's links with China appear to be raising more questions than they answer. Stewart Howe of the university's business school has gone to an international education fair...
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When a meal out changes lives
Geographer Ian Cook is studying the impact of changing western eating habits on Third World communities. He spoke to Wendy Barnaby Dinner at the Bamboula Jerk Kitchen comes with small containers of...