A biomechanics lecturer has devised a cookbook to teach his students about anatomy. The book uses easily available cuts of meat to highlight textures, three-dimensional structure and even the smells...
The New Zealand Government is investing more than £100,000 in a UK centre devoted to the study of the Antipodean country. The Birkbeck Centre for New Zealand Studies, based at the University of...
Academics have come up with a new way to investigate where and when students do their work. Sheffield Hallam University's Learning and Teaching Institute has recruited 15 students to a two-week...
An archive of materials relating to the historic road protest campaign at Twyford Down, near Winchester, has been acquired by the University of Winchester. The archive contains hundreds of letters,...
Two philanthropists have donated more than £12 million to create a research centre on climate change. Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham are creating the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and...
The Scottish Government is to fund a new £10 million life sciences institute at the University of Dundee. Sir Philip Cohen, a bioscientist and director of research at the College of Life Sciences,...
Zoologists are carrying out a trial of a new repellent against the scourge of Scottish summers, the midge. Up to 1,000 competitors in September's First Monster Challenge, a 120km duathlon (cycling...
Europe's first postgraduate course in environmental entrepreneurship is to be launched by the University of Strathclyde. The MSc aims to give students the skill to launch ventures and products that...
Football supporters do not believe they have to go to live matches to be true fans, according to research into the followers of the North East's main teams. Kevin Dixon, a senior lecturer in sports...
Aberystwyth University is creating a £20 million research institute to tackle major environmental problems. The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences will bring together the...
A campus in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, is to be set up by the University of Bolton. The campus will offer a range of Bolton's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in engineering,...
A new £500,000 laboratory will investigate green alternatives to solvents used in the chemical industry. The lab at Queen's University Belfast's Ionic Liquid Laboratories has a £5.25 million research...
A study into the health benefits of chocolate for women has been launched at the University of East Anglia. In the first clinical trial, postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes will eat one bar of...
Details of extraordinary crimes carried out in London can be viewed online for the first time from this week. Researchers at the universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire and at The Open University...
A branch of the Consulate of the Republic of Poland has been opened at the University of Hull. The office, believed to be the only one of its kind in the world, focuses its work on scientific and...