Green roots of the Incas
The Incas were a race of eco-warriors who built their empire on solid environmental foundations, according to new research. Many of the great civilisations, such as the Roman and Mayan, ultimately...
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Human risk in cattle practice
The use of an antibiotic to treat cattle is accelerating the spread of resistant strains of human stomach bugs, according to a new risk assessment. Les Crawford and colleagues at the Georgetown...
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Virus gives cancer hope
The prospect of developing a virus that selectively kills cancer cells sounds too good to be true. But a virus that can do just this, at least in the test tube, already exists. The question of...
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Cutting edge: Raymond Spier
Ethics and the teaching of responsibility in research are under the microscope. When trust goes out the window accountability comes in through the door - which means that researchers and their...
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Life on the 100ft ocean wave
Scientist Penny Holliday recalls being waylaid by world record waves while working in the North Atlantic. We had been expecting awful weather. The statistics showed how bad conditions were likely to...
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Size does matter in computer future
Liverpool scientists unveil nanoscale electronic components that build themselves. The electronics industry underwent a fundamental change with the invention of the transistor, paving the way for the...
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Don's Diary
1989 Article in the British Medical Journal shows that BSE, a disease of cattle, may pose a risk to humans. My colleague Richard Lacey predicts a cover-up, and we get hold of as much data as possible...
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In the news
The pope is to nominate Sir Thomas More, St Thomas More in the Catholic faith, as patron saint of politicians. But is Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor turning in his grave at having such a dubious honour...
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On the move
The following have been appointed to chairs at the University of Bristol : Nigel Franks , professor of animal behaviour and ecology at the University of Bath, to the chair of biological sciences;...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Ulster has given the 14th Dalai Lama an honorary degree (DLitt). Steve Bull , former footballer with Wolverhampton Wanderers, has received an honorary fellowship from the University...
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The grave predicament of students under siege
Palestinian universities want to carry on despite the violence, but they are now desperate, says Chris Doyle Images of young Palestinians are synonymous with those of stone-throwing men confronting...
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Only openness and integrity will reassure public
University scientists reading Lord Phillips's report might feel that the blame for the BSE crisis can be placed elsewhere - on politicians, civil servants and government scientists, all patronisingly...
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Skinful of snobbery
The feature on psychologist Linda Papadopoulos ("Why happiness is only skin deep", THES , October 20) highlighted the sometimes uneasy relationship between academia and the media....
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Divorce is all in academic minds (1)
I agree with Stephen Rowland that teaching and research can and should be "married" (Talking Shop, THES , October ). Not least because a divorce between them is a divorce between...
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Divorce is all in academic minds (2)
I am intrigued to know whether Stephen Rowland has any experience of university teaching or does he simply research the matter? Faced with large lecture sizes, a myriad of nationalities, religions...