Brussels, 04 Nov 2004 A contract for a fourth Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) spacecraft has been signed, ensuring that Europe will have access to data for weather forecasting and on the climate and...
Brussels, 04 Nov 2004 A team of researchers has discovered a new blindness gene, which could save the sight of thousands. The research team from Leeds University hopes that its discovery will lead to...
Brussels, 04 Nov 2004 The tenth conference on 'Control with remote sensing of area-based subsidies' will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 24 to November. The conference will bring together...
Paris, 04 Nov 2004 Photos When ESA's Huygens probe plunges into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on 14 January 2005, telescopes on Earth will be watching the remote world. Observations...
London, 04 Nov 2004 Full text [...] Introduction The creation, from 1 April 2003, of a new strategic advisory role and additional funding responsibilities for the CCLRC - resulting from its 2002...
London, 04 Nov 2004 CONTENTS Terms of Reference Documents for debate 1 DEFRA (25946) Marketing of oilseed rape genetically modified for glyphosate tolerance 2 HMT (25852) Credit institutions and...
World University Rankings Published in The Times Higher on 5 November 2004 A first attempt to compare universities around the globe Editorial: Top performers on the global stage take a bow ...
Heather Leach argues against narrative flow in the essay that won the Palgrave Macmillan/ Times Higher humanities and social sciences writing prize. Last year I was 60 - a threshold. I tilt my head...
The experience of African-American studies has lessons for the UK despite debates about its aims and direction, Stephen Phillips finds in the last of our series on black academics. In 2001, Harvard...
Is 'Big Brother in costume' bringing the past alive? Laurie Taylor listens in at a conference on history and the media It didn't take long for my cover to be blown at the Imperial War Museum. I'd...
A new exhibition examines the War on Terror in ways that the mainstream media do not, says Christopher Wood. Two opposing opinions are sometimes voiced about the conditions necessary for art to...
Students, academics and companies placing research contracts all need to know which are the best universities in the world. And the measures used to identify them are crucial, explains John O'Leary....
The Times Higher 's analysis of the world's top universities shows that quality is not the preserve of any single country. Martin Ince explains how the positions were worked out. The first lesson of...
Harvard enjoys an embarrassment of riches - the nation's best students, the world's elite scholars and a vast endowment - but it is not without its critics, Jon Marcus discovers There is a statue at...
An EU research area is fast becoming a reality, but Europe's North-South divide lives on, argues Martin Ince. This analysis of Europe's top 50 universities might suggest that the English language is...