"Telephone telepathy" is to be investigated by a team at the University of Northampton. The researchers are looking for people who have been unexpectedly called by an acquaintance while they were...
Academics are seeking to limit cases of a stomach virus that causes more than half a million deaths a year worldwide. The University of Liverpool is involved in a public-private partnership that...
Just a third of employees perceive their work as meaningful and have opportunities to voice their views. And unsurprisingly, this category of workers is the most "engaged". A two-year study at...
Computer scientists at the University of Bath have developed a new way of making lifelike animations of trees using video footage of the real thing. The technique could be used by animators and games...
A team of geographers has discovered a group of previously undocumented glaciers in Albania. Researchers from the Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology Group at the University of Manchester...
United StatesObama to reform student loansBarack Obama has promised to make higher education more affordable by reforming student loans. In his first State of the Union address, the US President said...
Report highlights 'shocking' decline in output in traditional research strongholds. Phil Baty writes
WELLCOME TRUST - FELLOWSHIPSAward winner: Frances WillenbrockInstitution: Cancer Research UKValue: £304,648Defining the signalling that leads to activation of lymphocyte integrinsAward winner: David...
Economist Andrew Oswald's appointment to a top science journal's board highlights a blurring of the hard and soft sciences
The president of the European Research Council is to step down to devote more time to his research at Imperial College London. Over the past three years, Fotis Kafatos, who also chairs the ERC's...
Former Hefce head outlines ambitious plan to save £10m and earn £10m. John Morgan reports
This dramatic sculpture by Japanese artist Koichi Ishino, Wind Stone - Earth and Sky, stands next to the Sir Michael Cobham Library on Bournemouth University's Talbot Campus.A former winner of the...
A lecturer reminds us of the religious ideals of the early Royal Society. Matthew Reisz reports
Why are European taxpayers paying EUR1.1 million (£950,000) for the development of a new set of university performance measures when there are already two "globally recognised" rankings produced by...
Cherish the humble professor whose focus is on knowledge - not the latest gimmick - while you can, says Jeffrey Ross