Brussels, 26 Feb 2004 The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced on 25 February that it is to create 14 new research units where scientists and academics will attempt to answer 'special...
Brussels, 26 Feb 2004 The Board of the Ludvig Holberg memorial fund is inviting nominations for an international prize for outstanding scientific work in the areas of social sciences, arts and...
Paris, 26 Feb 2004 Today's launch of Flight 158 with the Rosetta spacecraft has been put on hold for 24 hours due to weather at Europe's spaceport in French Guiana. The weather hold was due to wind...
Experts split after Royal Society backs animal testing The scientific world was divided last night after the Royal Society published a report (The use on non-human animals in research: A guide for...
Although not a standard textbook, The Observer's Book of Astronomy by Patrick Moore did more to set me on a career path in science than any number of standard-issue schoolbooks and humdrum teachers....
Christopher Wood discovers what really drives biologist Richard Dawkins to wonder. It is too early to describe the landscape of the post-Hutton report world. But just in case the days of a free press...
In a field dominated until recently by American texts, these three books add to a growing literature that focuses on online business activity from a UK perspective. All three offer case studies and,...
One of the world's leading cancer researchers, 91-year-old Sir Richard Doll, has said he would be willing to go to prison for breaking one of the many new laws that academics believe are stifling...
The national academic pay system began to crumble this week as leading universities forged ahead with plans to set their own pay levels - despite the strike by the largest academic union. The...
Andrew Wakefield is back in the news after being accused of concealing a potential conflict of interest in his 1998 study purporting to link the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel...
* Graham Winch , professor of business analysis in the University of Plymouth's Business School, has been made president-elect of the Systems Dynamics Society. He will serve as society president for...
Phil Baty tours the AUT picket lines to look at the effect of the strike action over pay and conditions "Is there a strike?" asked Rigas Oikonomou, a Greek masters' student at the London School of...
Ministers look set to rule out national bursaries or fee waivers for maths undergraduates despite warnings that too few students are studying the subject at uni-versity, The Times Higher has learnt....
Oxford University will be forced to "go private" and charge students Pounds 15,000-plus for courses when the cap on tuition fees is reviewed at the end of the decade, an MP claimed this week. David...
One of the most potent anti-malarial chemicals known to science has been found in the Amazon rainforest, unnoticed by the indigenous people who often fall victim to the disease. University...