A sorry tale of BSE blunders
Even before the botched experiment on BSE in sheep made the news, shortcomings in Maff's studies of BSE had been pointed out by Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, who thinks the government should change how its...
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Cutting Edge: David Cantrill
Growing up in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, I often escaped to the bush to explore. The variety of unusual plants held a fascination that I suspect stemmed largely from my father's work as a...
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EU learns a vital lesson from BSE
Alan Osborn reports on the fight for slices of the Sixth Framework cake. The European Commission has proposed significant changes to the European Union's Sixth Framework research programme, aimed at...
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French plug skills gap
Jane Marshall reports on how a potential exodus is being used to rejuvenate scientific research. France is to create 1,000 public research posts in the next three years in a bid to stave off an...
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Planes put heritage on the map
An aerial survey of England will reveal the nation's archaeological heritage in unprecedented detail, writes Steve Farrar. English Heritage is accelerating its national mapping programme, while the...
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US clamps down on student visas
President Bush issued a directive this week indicating tighter controls on overseas students arriving in the United States. His announcement, made at the first session of the Homeland Security...
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Plan to combat scrapie flawed
Government plans to rid the United Kingdom of sheep deemed susceptible to scrapie - a disease related to BSE - might fail because a key scientific question remains unresolved. Malcolm Ferguson-Smith...
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Lab fears project snub
Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside, has asked science minister Lord Sainsbury to end confusion over the future of the Daresbury Laboratory, which lost the prestigious Diamond Synchrotron to...
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Cambridge hammered in new report Fundamental failings of management and accountability at Cambridge University led to the disasterous implementation of a £9 million financial accounting system that...
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Two fingers sure say a lot
Differences in our digits, visible in the womb, can predict much about the life that lies ahead of us, argues John Manning. Think of a foetus and its environment. What comes to mind? An individual...
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Clever brains stump the inquiring minds
In our series on Big Science Questions, Harriet Swain looks at controversies over intelligence and Robert Plomin discusses the crucial role of genetics. For a quality traditionally associated with...
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'g' is for ability but it's also for genes
In our series on Big Science Questions, Harriet Swain looks at controversies over intelligence and Robert Plomin discusses the crucial role of genetics The word "intelligence" means so many different...
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Stuck at the last temporal turnstile
Time travel is not just the stuff of science fiction, argues physicist Paul Davies, but to make it real we need a 'theory of everything' In 1905, just ten years after the appearance of H. G. Wells's...
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A few Blair babes but not a lot of mickle
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