Brussels, 3 October 2002 Fine particulate matter is now one of the biggest threats to human health from air pollution. A new technique to monitor the concentration of particulate matter in urban air...
Minister fudges pledge to pay for victims of A-level fiasco Estelle Morris was plunged into a new fight for her political future last night as she was accused of backing away from her promise to help...
* A Turkish institution set up a committee of investigation to look into allegations of misconduct brought to its attention by a British journal. Some of the published paper's co-authors had...
The responsibility of co-authors of collaborative academic papers has emerged as a key issue in the wake of the Bell Labs research fraud scandal, writes Steve Farrar. The independent investigative...
Academics and university libraries are disappointed by the outcome of a year-long inquiry by the Office of Fair Trading into the academic journals market, writes Caroline Davis. The OFT said the...
Bristol University has a couple of new recruits working on its widening-participation programme - a science education officer and an assistant a few million years her senior. Thecodontosaurus was one...
The catastrophe that spelt doom for dinosaurs may have come close to wiping out birds as well, according to a new study. A statistical analysis of fossils that date from before and after the mass...
The chemicals that give many of the world's favourite cuisines their peppery "zing" may be carcinogenic, new research has suggested. An epidemiological study found elevated levels of stomach and...
Northern Ireland's "peaceline" campus has had a major question mark placed over its future. Despite being ten years in the planning, and with £40 million earmarked for it, there are serious doubts...
France's research budget for 2003 has provoked accusations of government fiddling of the figures to show an increase in spending. Minister Claudie Haignere claimed her €9.56 billion (£6 billion)...
Thieves have stolen the antique gold medallion traditionally worn by the rector of Bologna University on ceremonial occasions. Along with the rector's medallion and its gold chain, the thieves who...
Tens of thousands of American students who have only just begun their final year of high school have already sent off their applications for college. By the middle of December, they will know whether...
The vice-chancellor of the Netherlands' oldest university has said he may have to sell some of the university's most valuable manuscripts and art works because of cuts in higher education. In his...
Omdurman Islamic University in Sudan is planning to train birth attendants to carry out female circumcision - a practice that is illegal in Sudanese and international law. Some 89 per cent of married...
The law faculty at the City University of Hong Kong will have to wait until November at the earliest for an independent committee to deliver its review of the dismissal of ten law lecturers last year...