Make a killing on property
The government hopes that new guidelines will increase the exploitation of intellectual property rights by public research bodies - Philip Atkinson explains. As part of its new approach to publicly...
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Did virus kill off mammoth?
Evidence of the first viral infection identified in an extinct animal has been recovered from the remains of three woolly mammoths. The discovery marks the start of an attempt to solve one of the...
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Coffee boosts pill benefits
Washing down an ibuprofen tablet with coffee can boost the analgesic action of the painkiller, a study has found. The combined effect emerged during a study involving 301 tension-type headache...
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Robotised geostar shines light on Mediterranean seabed
Scientists from Italy, France and Germany have lowered a robotised research station, weighing 1.5 tonnes to one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean. At 3,500m below the surface, this is almost...
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Italian lava's deep secret
Etna and the other live volcanoes of Italy have been studied for a long time. Now scientists are finding out about their undersea neighbours and submerging equipment in the deep sea to study their...
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Star Turn: Oliver Double
Mandy Garner enjoys a game of bingo in a Kent lecture theatre as a teaser to learning about working-men's club comedy Stand-up comedians have arrived. Just a few years ago, they were deeply uncool;...
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Copyright licencers say fees are too low
Universities should pay six times more for their copyright licences than they do, according to the Copyright Licensing Authority. In response to accusations of overcharging from the Committee of Vice...
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QAA told to rethink its award rankings
The Quality Assurance Agency has been forced to take its blueprint for a national qualifications framework back to the drawing board after overwhelming protests. A chorus of disapproval has persuaded...
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The not so odd couple
Poor career guidance and isolation are issues for many women working in science, technology and engineering. Mixed-sex mentoring may be a solution, as Sharon Ann Holgate finds out. "It was a...
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Agony aunt
Howard G. Allen Emeritus professor of structural engineering University of Southampton A : Students want to perform well but worry about what is expected of them. Most welcome useful advice. But for...
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How to... get a seminar group to sizzle
WHAT : Tutors often find it an uphill struggle to get students to open up in group debate about their studies and ideas WHY : Kate Exley argues that getting students to help set the ground rules can...
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Healthy marriage is on the rocks
Teaching and research are the perfect pair, not foes, Stephen Rowland insists. The argument for a divorce between teaching and research comes in various forms, but its logic boils down to this: some...
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Snowballing, but still very much in control
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an author who snooped around the seedy streets of criminal Chicago: " The Treloar Building was, and is,...