Glittering prizes
Performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah is to receive the honorary degree of doctor of letters from the University of the West of England. UWE has also appointed Jennifer Bone, vice-chair of the Society...
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'Swift' action on ray bursts
British astronomers have won approval to build and launch a spacecraft to study mysterious, violent bursts of gamma rays. Last week Nasa selected the spacecraft, called Swift, as one of its key space...
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Keeping the doctor away
A survey from the 1930s could reveal important links between diet and disease, says Steve Farrar The cardboard boxes, crammed with yellowing papers, looked anything but precious. Yet when the Bristol...
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Finger-pointing may help drivers...
An "intelligent" car with a "virtual" dashboard that obeys the driver's commands by responding to hand gestures? That'll be the Daewoo, as the Korean car-maker's advertisements like to say. But...
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...and aid disabled using computers
People with severe disabilities may soon be able to "train" computers to interpret their individual gestures. Stephen McKenna and Ian Ricketts of Dundee University's department of applied computing...
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Danes put African fauna on the map
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have drawn the first comprehensive maps of the distribution of more than 3,900 species of birds, mammals, snakes and amphibians in sub-Saharan Africa. The...
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Magnetic model of the earth unveiled
A Danish satellite launched in February has produced the first accurate map of the Earth's magnetic field for 20 years. The satellite - which is named after Hans Christian Orsted (1777-1851), a...
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Cutting edge
Apparitions exist, there is no question in my mind that the phenomena described as apparitions are real. But what are they? For more than a century, the Society for Psychical Research has collected...
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Conakry
Two students were killed and others wounded when armed police opened fire on protesters marching on the palace of president Lansana Konte of Guinea to protest at the doubling of petroleum product...
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Rome
A team of six scholars - three Catholics and three Jews - are to have access to Vatican second world war archives to study the role of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The six...
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Money can't buy me love
(Photograph) - Attacked by a cream cake in Brussels and now snubbed by Canadian students, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates accepts the public pain of high office with good grace
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Western movies
The University of the West of England and other Bristol organisations have opened a centre where staff from local businesses can learn multimedia technologies. The multimedia centre at the Rackhay is...
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Dark dealings under scrutiny
Academics are at the frontline of exposing corruption, but winning the battle will require more effort. Karen MacGregor reports. The crucial role of research in the war against graft - especially its...
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Students get a fair chance to make a mark
How can students judge the quality of their own work? The idea that students might assess themselves and their peers raises doubts about reliability, standards and equity. Yet, ironically, these...
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Derby: call for full inquiry
Lecturers' union Natfhe is calling for an independent investigation into The THES's revelations that Derby University admitted students to degree courses in Israel without agreed minimum entry...