Smart mast created
Intelligent masts that warn sailing crews when they are about to snap have been created by a team of British scientists and engineers. The carbon composite mast has optical fibre sensors and...
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Open letter warns against new rank for researchers
ROME A group of senior Italian academics has written an open letter to university minister Ortensio Zecchino warning against plans to eliminate the job definition "researcher" in state university...
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System will supplant keyhole surgery
Physicians may soon no longer be looking through the keyhole when they perform microscopic surgery, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Advances in virtual reality mean that a surgeon's narrow views of the human...
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Confidence in net grows
Advocates of lifelong learning will find comfort in a study from British Telecommunications and Futuremedia. The research shows that the overall growth in internet and intranet use is encouraging...
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New TV habits
The television programme Ages of Avatar gives users the chance to explore a new media form - Inhabited Television. Four virtual worlds are open on the web alongside a television programme , broadcast...
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Start-up motor
Business students at three United Kingdom universities are taking part in a competition to build a multi-million-pound company. Students at the London School of Economics, London Business School and...
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Harvard sues for its name
Harvard University is going to court under the recently enacted cyber-piracy law in the United States to prove internet rights to website addresses that contain its name. The university is suing to...
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6 days and counting...
Should scientists play God by creating life? Colin Humphreys, a Christian, says that depends on what they do with it. The American scientist Craig Venter recently proposed creating life in a test...
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From a shambles to a crisis?
Ministers could soon have a disaster on their hands if they do not address the parlous state of academia, warns Phil Willis. When Baroness Blackstone took office in 1997 she described higher...
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Cutting edge
Studies show a high degree of heritability in twins' behaviours and feelings of wellbeing. Despite that, we can still direct our lives. We have been studying twins at the University of Minnesota...
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Below-the-belt test of men's health
To see if male fertility rates are falling, Scottish researchers are seeking sperm samples to set a baseline of health. Olga Wojtas reports. "We're all brought up to think we're dangerously fertile,...
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Oringins of sex discovered
It was the evolutionary "big bang" that started them all. Scientists have found the earliest evidence of sexual reproduction in Arctic rocks 1.2 billion years old. A detailed analysis of fossilised...
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Sources of research funding
This section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk NHS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT National Primary Care Awards The director of research...
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Here is the nudes
(Photograph) - Here is the nudes: University of Plymouth student union members posed for a naked calendar to raise money for meningitis research and for community action. Photograph by MIKE BENSON
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Ancestors were a macabre lot
Neolithic long barrows may once have been witness to ghoulish burial rituals involving the repeated handling of pieces of decaying corpses. Analysis of bones recovered from two burial mounds in...