MPs criticise Nerc's grant cancellation
The Natural Environment Research Council was wrong to cancel an entire grants round so hastily last year, says a critical report released by the Commons science and technology committee. The council...
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The disappearance of Max, Glasgow University's bearded dragon, remains a mystery two weeks on. The iguana-like reptile was stolen from outside the zoology museum during a lunch hour, but neither a...
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Critic says NHS gains more from 'slick' new universities
The "pedestrian pace" of academic research in many old universities makes it useless for the National Health Service, a senior paediatrician said last week. Sir David Hall, co-chair of the external...
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Study finds witnesses easily swayed by misleading accounts
An eyewitness to a crime with a faulty memory can seriously distort other witnesses' testimony if they discuss what they saw, research by Aberdeen University psychologists has revealed. Witnesses...
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100,000 years on your dad's tail
The Journey of Man
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Look to Darwin, not skeletons
Genes, Memes and Human History
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Hard life giving you the hump?
Life at the Limits
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Reason to battle the odds
Rationality and Freedom
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Those eureka moments
Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws
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Newshound with eyes to the skies
The Moonlandings
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A loving look at
The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House
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Bloody road to glasnost
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
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Power that lags behind genius
Leonardo's Laptop
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From apostle to muted prophet
The Long Recessional
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An attack mismanaged
Against Management