From poison pen to golden handshake
A medical researcher in Toronto sent intimidating letters to a rival's supporters. He now fears losing his job. Philip Fine reports. Last year, Gideon Koren was awarded Canada's first chair in child...
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A solution to moon illusion
A father-and-son team believe they have cracked an age-old mystery of the heavens: why does the moon appear much bigger when it is rising or setting near the horizon than it does when it is high in...
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Chicken eggs fight disease
Scientists are to create transgenic chickens that lay eggs crammed with disease-fighting human antibodies, writes Steve Farrar. A team of experts from Origen Therapeutics, a United States biotech...
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US Yale forces Welsh college to change name
Yale College in Wrexham, a further education college, is being forced to change its name by its American namesake, Yale University. The college, named Yale since 1972, submitted after a threat of...
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Stripe search in Siberia
The tigers of the Russian Far East have become the focus of two major international initiatives, writes Vera Rich. Fifteen joint Russian-United States teams - comprising game-wardens and ecologists...
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Cube molecule is a real blast
It will knock spots off gelignite, blows holes in TNT and make Semtex look positively tame. Chemists have succeeded in synthesising a chemical they predict could be the most explosive substance yet...
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Should I tell flu victims to keep away?
Q Flu is wreaking havoc with attendance and even when students turn up I wonder whether they can hear my lecture amid the coughing and spluttering. Should I tell flu victims to keep away? A There is...
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Should I tell flu victims to keep away?
Q Flu is wreaking havoc with attendance and even when students turn up I wonder whether they can hear my lecture amid the coughing and spluttering. Should I tell flu victims to keep away? A If you...
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Should I tell flu victims to keep away?
Q Flu is wreaking havoc with attendance and even when students turn up I wonder whether they can hear my lecture amid the coughing and spluttering. Should I tell flu victims to keep away? A I...
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Tutors take to the small screen
A new Pounds 600,000 learning and teaching support centre at Exeter University aims to allow students to spend less time in lectures and more time in tutorials. IT head Laurie Burbridge said: "The...
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Tackling the challenge of imparting key skills
The road to key skills is strewn with boulders, according to David Baume of the Open University's Centre for Higher Education Practice. He argues that the mindset that sees key skills as an assault...
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Geography drills core into subject handbook
A new publication, Improving Students' Communication Skills in Geography, is the latest in a series that aims to help embed key skills in the geography curriculum. It was written by Sue Burkill and...
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Karen Thornton
Karen Thornton (Star Turn, January 7) is an education lecturer, not officer, at the National (not Bradford) Museum of Photography, Film and Television, which collaborates with Bradford College and...
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The truth behind a plush exterior
Trisha Greenhalgh looks at the down side of high-tech learning on the web of primary health care. It is digital, it is interactive, it comes with high-tech bells and whistles and it is based on up-to...
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Giving a voice to silence
Alan Skelton argues that gay and bisexual academics have a right to rethink the curriculum. It is "doing the job" that counts, not your sexuality, argued Michael Portillo in his campaign to become...