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Saving energy is an all-consuming affair for Christopher Bigsby

Saving energy is an all-consuming affair for Christopher Bigsby

The UK's first professor of cardiac surgery has died. Hugh Henry Bentall was born in Worthing, Sussex on 28 April 1920 and graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1942. He started his...

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Coventry UniversityCSI: West MidlandsA university celebrated 10 years of forensic psychology research and learning with a one-day conference. Coventry University's department of psychology and...

Non-profit, scholar-run publisher impresses with its open-access monograph list. Paul Jump reports
The University of Cambridge has become the latest higher education institution to raise private finance for building projects, announcing the issue of a £350 million bond.
Two US scientists have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies revealing how cells in the human body sense their environment.
More than 1,700 people have signed a petition protesting against the suspension of an internationally-renowned psychology professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Two pioneers of quantum optics, a field that has paved the way for super-fast computing, have been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for physics.

By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
British developmental biologist Sir John Gurdon has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed.
The government is to put an additional £200 million into a fund designed to boost university and industry collaboration.
International students arriving in London will no longer have to endure long queues to register with the police following changes to the registration procedure.
David Willetts has warned that some Scottish universities are anxious as to whether they will remain "properly financed" without receiving tuition fees from students in the country.
Part-time students gain higher pay, new skills and greater responsibilities in the workplace even while they are studying, a new survey has found.