Universities form bioscience pact
Five universities have joined forcesto form the Western Arc BiosciencesPlatform, part of a government initiative aimed at keeping Britain ahead ofother European countries in making commercial use of...
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Cutting edge
Herbal medicine research combines ancient knowledge of plants' power and 20th-century science to devise a range of hi-tech natural treatments for the future One of the things that excites me about...
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Making chemistry pay
Companies are leading the drug revolution. Kam Patel reports Southampton University is proposing a new scheme to help universities tackle a serious shortage of expertise in a chemistry technique...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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Copyright laws causing chaos
Academics are alarmed at tougher copyright licensing regulations agreed earlier this year by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and the Copyright Licensing Agency. The agreements cover copying for...
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Rome's mega campus is broken up
Rome's La Sapienza University, the most crowded campus in Europe with more than 170,000 students, will be split into several independent institutions. The move comes after a tug-of-war between the...
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Boules of style
(Photograph) - Simon Eade, a third-year student from the French department at the University of Leeds, throws a boule in the first Leeds international petanque (boules) contest, watched by second-...
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Cash crisis hits student doctors
Sheffield University's multi-million pound franchising venture to stem the acute shortage of doctors in Malaysia has collapsed because of economic crisis there. The university is left with...
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Discreet views of barbarity
Witness to History - Body Horror
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Don't leave your planet without this
The Last Dinosaur Book
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Booker-winning first novel of a trilogy: "In deck-chairs all along the front the bald pink knees of...
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The factories of war
Memorials of the Great War in Britain - War and Faith - At the Eleventh Hour
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The war that won't die
Alchemist of War - The Pity of War
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An American power trip
Consuming Power