Portsmouth/Southampton - Particles of the waves
Volcanic ash from Iceland may have caused disruption for many, but it has also allowed marine researchers in the North Atlantic to conduct a unique experiment. A team from the University of...
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University of Cambridge - State-sponsored science
The origins of the longitude system used to chart how far east or west a ship at sea had reached will be the subject of a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council....
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University of Southampton - Crystal clear
A £3.5 million state-of-the-art facility is being set up in southern England to help scientists across the UK study chemical structures at the atomic and molecular levels. The National X-ray...
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Bucks New University - Can-didgeridoo attitude
Students on a leadership and management master's course have incorporated a key skill into their studies - playing the didgeridoo. Instruction on how to play the Australian instrument was given to...
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University of Nottingham - Solar flair
A cookery masterclass and dinner parties marked the public unveiling of Britain's entry to an international sustainable-architecture competition. Engineering and architecture students at the...
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London School of Economics - Fifth and first
The University of Cape Town has become the London School of Economics' fifth foreign institutional partner. The deal is LSE's first formal alliance with an African university, and will pave the way...
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Birkbeck, University of London - Tongue-tied tea party
Researchers have discovered that a cup of tea can leave its drinker speechless. Li Wei, a professor at the department of applied linguistics and communication at Birkbeck, University of London, led a...
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Imperial College London - Heap is on
A tonne of food waste will be saved from landfill every week by a London college thanks to a newly designed composting unit. The device at Imperial College London has been created on the back of...
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University of East Anglia - Archives of pain
Researchers are looking for people who have experienced traumas such as car accidents, assaults or natural disasters to help them with a new study. The project at the University of East Anglia will...
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Ocean's rich fabric
The coral reef beneath this trapeze is part of an exhibition of extraordinary crochet being held at Trinity College Dublin's Science Gallery. The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is described as an "...
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Odds and quads
These artworks were created by The Painting Fool, a program that "aspires to be an artist". The software was developed by Simon Colton, Michel Valstar and Maja Pantic, computer scientists at Imperial...
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'Service excellence' means treating staff as customers
Northumbria academic claims approach would raise workforce morale. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Backup is needed for those under fire in the field, abused lecturer says
Work with gypsy communities has exposed expert to threats and hate mail. Hannah Fearn writes
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Facebookers force Leeds to trash gagging code
The University of Leeds has been forced to remove a social-networking code from its website warning staff and students that it was unacceptable to criticise the university on sites such as Facebook...
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Overseas briefing
United States'Fraudster' fools HarvardA man has been charged with faking his way into Harvard University and duping the institution out of $45,000 (£31,000) in financial aid, grants and scholarships...