Molecular databases go global
SCIENTISTS in Asia and Eastern Europe are plugging into the molecular biology databases of the leading industrial nations, a rich source of knowledge that could be applied in medicine and farming....
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Girl power
London's Queen Mary and Westfield College will set up online discussions and videoconferences for hundreds of schoolgirls aged 14 to 15, in an effort to encourage girls to take computing courses in...
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Box clever
A student at Kings College London has won a prize worth Pounds 3,000 for inventing a system which brings email to people in their homes using their television sets. Alan Sutton devised software that...
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Sarajevo story
Teesside Tertiary College and multimedia company YITM are inviting schools and colleges across Europe to relive the crucial events of July 1914 over a period of 24 hours. Beginning at 10 am on 30...
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Plant saves planet
THE RECENT Science Week highlighted some interesting web sites. Southampton University (www.soc.soton. ac.uk/SUDO/tt/eh) has beautiful pictures of Emiliania huxleyi, a tiny sea plant which could save...
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Ted Nelson arrives at Southampton University for the Hypertext 97 conference
(Photograph) - Ted Nelson arrives at Southampton University for the Hypertext 97 conference, where tonight he will speak on a live video link to the sixth international World Wide Web conference in...
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V-cs embrace virtual futures with edge of rivalry
THE potential delights and possible dangers of cyberspace are attracting the attention of Australia's most senior academics. Drawn by the prospect of using the Internet to teach courses more cheaply...
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MAN-to-MAN conversations link video tutorial experiments
High-speed links in Scotland have enabled researchers to develop distributed innovative learning resources over several campuses. In February, four Scottish universities began an 18-month experiment...
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Newcastle's base metal that harbours a vein of information resources
The colour and noise of commercial development on the World Wide Web can often screen out vastly more useful academic Internet tools. These tools remain net friendly in their use of bandwidth and...
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When the Net gets too hot for commerce to handle
Alistair Chalmers says Internet near meltdowns in the US and Australia offer lessons that the UK's academic network managers must learn Most readers of this piece will be familiar with Janet, the...
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Kraft work brings multiple fusion power to the Infobahn
Michael Boyd reports on collaborative research efforts that should help to make searching the Web a more exact experience for users at all levels A vital computing priority is to reduce the time and...
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Observatories backing
MANY astronomers do not believe "it would be politically feasible" to transfer all the work of the two Royal Observatories to one site, but accepted that savings have to be made, the Royal...
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Assessment report is suspended by election
THE GENERAL election campaign is preventing publication of a quality assessment report of Edinburgh University's veterinary school until after a long-awaited visit from the Royal College of...
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Vets' training cash-starved
VETERINARY schools are finding it increasingly difficult to satisfy standards for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the body that ensures and approves the quality of degree courses, a leading...
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New Labour, new paradigm
The pick of the papers from the Political Studies Association conference in Ulster A Labour victory at the forthcoming general election would underline rather than threaten the political dominance...