People will be 'cloned' to animate computer games
Forget Dolly the sheep - researchers at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities are developing new software to allow animation and games companies to "clone" real people to create realistic animations....
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Three Ws the key to universities' online future
The learning landscape will be refashioned by technology to deliver much more "just-in-time" knowledge, delegates at the 20th world conference on open and distance education heard. Lecturers standing...
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It pays to help the public to meet the ancestors
Academics need to take stock of their role and support public interest in history, writes Simon Ditchfield. There is nothing like a good crisis to concentrate the mind. The closure of Luton...
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Imperial bids for degrees
Imperial College is making a bid for degree-awarding status, which would allow it to award degrees independently of the University of London. The college says it wants the powers in place as a...
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Hunt is on for cancer guru
Birmingham University is set to win a multimillion pound government research grant even though it has failed to meet the strict conditions under which the money was originally earmarked. It was...
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Cricketing board nurtures talent
There has been an air of pessimism surrounding English cricket since England conceded the Ashes 12 years ago. But when Australia begins its Ashes tour in June, fans should be reassured that a new...
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Leaders guide London students through voting maze
London students are being urged to vote for MPs who support their interests - and to use their collective muscle against the rest. A new guide published by the University of London Union lists the...
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Cooperation, not confrontation
Attempts to launch a rival to the Institute for Learning and Teaching are a mistake, argues Brian Smith. The Association of University Teachers could be taking a huge risk by pressing ahead with...
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Corporate crackdown
As academics struggle to perform for quality assessments, Rebecca Boden is concerned about the 'creeping cancer of managerialism'. Successive corporate scandals in the late 1980s ensured that...
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Why I... believe all PhD students should be grilled in public
The email was unambiguous: "As opponent, your role is to summarise the dissertation, interrogate the candidate I and then sum up the strengths and weaknesses." The invitation might have added, "Iin...
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Life factory opens up
The ribosome, nature's ultimate nanotechnologist, is now starting to surrender its secrets. Giselle Weiss reports. Researchers have announced the latest in a series of spectacular developments...
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Cutting edge: Moshe Rosenberg
The art of cheesemaking emerged from the need to preserve surplus milk. It has now evolved into a multidisciplinary, scientific and technological fermentation industry. The quality and commercial...
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Memories are made of this
Men and women use different parts of their brains when forming emotionally charged memories, a new study has shown. In two rounds of tests involving horror movie clips, 11 men and 11 women had their...
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Be wary of the Ides of March
It is one of the most notorious predictions in history, yet a new study challenges the tradition that Julius Caesar was give a month's notice to "Beware the Ides of March". Analysis of contemporary...
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Make students mark
When students assess one another's practical work, they gain insight into the material while staff gain time, argues Ian Hughes. Practical work is a key part of degree courses in biological sciences...