Media distorts drugs reporting
Television and newspaper reports tend to exaggerate the benefits of new medicines while ignoring their risks and costs. A study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, reveals that...
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Navigating by mental maps
Using vast computing power and evolutionary theory, researchers are gaining insights into the brain's complex circuitry, writes Geoff Watts. If one bit of the brain is damaged by a stroke, injuring...
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Russia fears Putin's economy could cost the earth
Putin has caused outrage by axeing the environmental protection agency to save money. Nick Holdsworth writes. Russian scientists and ecologists have reacted angrily to President Putin's decision to...
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Fact joins hands with faith in Rome
Research can add to the glory of God, is the pope's message to scientists. Paul Bompard reports. Surrounded by the baroque magnificence of St Peter's Basilica, Pope John Paul II received 2,500...
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EC backs research network
The European Commission has agreed to provide e80 million (Pounds 49.8 million) to help create a high-speed, high-capacity internet infrastructure to connect the national research and education...
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Report 'muddies' spending review
The links between teaching and research go beyond the simple view that "good research is necessary for good teaching", according to a study commissioned by the funding council. The finding will muddy...
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South African v-cs warn of 'tertiary apartheid'
South Africa's council on higher education this week began reviewing radical reforms for the country's universities and technikons amid warnings from vice-chancellors of a return to tertiary...
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Peruvian students stage silent protest
(Photograph) - Peruvian university students, with their mouths taped shut, stage a silent protest in Lima against last month's controversial election between president Alberto Fujimori and Alejandro...
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E-learning is failing the quality control test
Online education packages developed by British universities are not up to the standards required by the government's flagship University for Industry initiative, writes Alison Goddard. Some 1,500...
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Nursery children lured to ultra-right Russian party
When the Vladimir State Technical University in Russia organised a special competition to mark the 55th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the books awarded as prizes to the winners were...
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Italy sets sites on amore
Italian students can now consult a web portal that claims to address all their information needs, writes Paul Bompard. At www.campusweb.it, students can view bulletins on research, announcements of...
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Virtual cafe gives taste of campus
Staffordshire University has launched a global learning initiative that aims to provide students with a virtual campus experience. The Off Campus initiative, developed by the university's Learning...
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Monks' habits back in fashion
A 6th-century monk may offer new and robust frameworks for the advent of enlightenment in the European e-business age. Angela Rae, senior lecturer in human resource management at the University of...
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easyJet chief backs venture
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet and easyGroup, has backed a pioneering e-business portfolio launched by the Robert Gordon University. Speaking to an audience of businesspeople in...
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Spielberg conducts cyber seminar first
Director Steven Spielberg took time off from filming his new feature, The Boys in the Band, to present the first in a series of virtual masterclasses for Liverpool media students via the internet...