Medicine comes a poor second to physics
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Courting business is key to progress
Research chief Luciano Criscuoli tells Paul Bompard the government is encouraging the private sector to help fund more research projects After almost 20 years at the Ministry for Universities and...
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St Francis's basilica made to rise from earthquake ruins
Restorers save frescoes by injecting walls with a quake-proof resin that will last to the next millennium On September 26 1997, a violent earthquake rocked central Italy. In the hilltop town of...
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Welsh see a merger turf war looming
Up to eight higher education institutions could be forced to close under plans put to the Welsh Assembly by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The plans could ignite debate over...
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Fist fight
(Photograph) - A Belgrade student peers through the 'fist' symbol of the student resistance movement to the Slobodan Milosevic regime at a rally in the Serbian capital last Tuesday. Demonstrations...
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Digital age leaves professors talking turkey
Britain's traditional universities will be "well and truly stuffed" by online higher education providers unless steps are taken to embrace the electronic future of education. This was just one view...
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A fowl clue to flu
Catching Cold
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Black art as weapon of war
Propaganda - Easily Led - British Propaganda in the Twentieth Century
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Harvard pioneer of digital frontiers
Makin' Numbers - Howard Aiken
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How salt sprinkles? It's as clear as crystal
Molecular Modelling Applications in Crystallisation
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What's cool about 'Cats'?
British Theatre Since the War
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Consoled by faith, prodded by reason
The Mystery of Incarnation - Godless Morality
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How world's biggest democracy gave up one-party rule
The Saffron Wave
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Intellectuals found dead in ivory tower
The Arts and Sciences of Criticism
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Water? Sorry, we're fresh out
The Los Angeles River - The Politics of Water in the Middle East - The World's Water