Findings: Radicals shake polar science
The air above the South Pole is alive with highly reactive molecules that no-one knew were there. The discovery overturns the long-held assumption that the surface of the continent was almost...
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Findings: Climate key to wealthy states
A good frost may have made all the difference when it came to determining the wealth of nations. United States economists William Masters, at Purdue University, and Margaret McMillan, at Tufts...
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On the trail of hunters who took to the land
Pinpointing when hunter-gatherers became farmers calls for clever science and detective work. Geoff Watts met sleuths piecing together the evidence. The Neolithic revolution may not be as familiar as...
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Tests begin to see if tower captive ate children
In Canto XXXIII of his Inferno , Dante tells how in 1289, during political upheavals, Count Ugolino della Gherardesca was imprisoned with his family, and without food, in a tower dungeon in Pisa,...
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AWARDS The Smith and Newphew Award for the most outstanding student in years one and two on the Veterinary Nursing and Practice Administration BSc programme has been awarded to Katy Wilkinson , at...
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Merger decision on ice amid financial concerns
Merger discussions between London Guildhall University and the University of North London are being extended due to uncertainty over financial forecasts, writes Cherry Canovan . The final decision...
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Web father: keep a cool head over terrorism
Overreaction to terrorism by governments is a greater danger to civilisation than terrorism itself, the inventor of the worldwide web said in Oxford on Wednesday. Tim Berners-Lee, 3Com Founders chair...
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Welsh back grant revival
Welsh vice-chancellors are backing proposals for the Welsh Assembly to seek legislative powers to introduce maintenance grants and bursaries for students. The "green paper", The Learning Country ,...
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Room at the inn for freshers
Hundreds of freshers are being lodged in temporary accommodation because their universities have recruited more students than expected. Beds have been moved into dining rooms and even old bars to...
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From today's UK papers
Times Young people are more strongly supportive than the elderly of prime minister Tony Blair's handling of the British response to the terrorist attacks according to the latest MORI poll. Seventy...
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Lib Dems to focus on funding
Graduate taxation and corporate endowment will be considered in a review of university funding announced by the Liberal Democrats in Bournemouth this week. Education spokesman Phil Willis told The...
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Letter(2):Real quality versus self-interest
In putting the Russell Group's views on the future of quality assurance on the front page, The THES is giving the group a weight it does not deserve. The group is already represented on the task...
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The right Pill at precisely the right time
If the creation of the oral contraceptive had been delayed, it would never have made it to the market, argues its inventor Carl Djerassi. On October 15 1951, the first synthesis of a steroid oral...
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Shift needed on bright-wing politics
Gifted children are not a homogeneous group. Consequently, there is a variety of definitions of "giftedness". A review of international research I conducted for schools inspection agency Ofsted shows...
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'I have sat in rooms talking to people I knew the IRA would love to kill. The doorbell rings'
Olga Wojtas meets the academics who are trying to get to the root of terrorism. "The only time that I ever came near to being filled in was a case of mistaken identity," says Steve Bruce, head of...