Molten granite speed shifts
It was once assumed that molten granite took thousands or even millions of years to travel from its source deep within the earth to just below the surface. But this movement could take place over a...
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Engineers look north
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. By the end of the century the north-east of England should have a network of...
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Jellyfish take sting out of crop disease
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. A jellyfish gene has been transplanted into a plant to make it glow when it is...
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Smokers hear of cancer antidote
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. Smokers could avoid getting cancer by taking a chemical that zaps the carcinogens...
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Personnel chiefs mourn unions
Union leaders might find it hard to believe, but the potentially precarious state of their organisations is a major worry for personnel chiefs in higher education. The implications of dwindling union...
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Go-getter
(Photograph) - Go-getter: an electric car designed by engineers at the University of Wales, Cardiff, made its racing debut at Britain's first electric vehicle rally earlier this month. The car came...
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Impossible wish of Euro-graduates
More than half of Europe's high-flying graduates want to work for a multinational company - but they do not want a foreign boss. The main attractions of multinationals include working in foreign...
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Bulls, bears and now dinosaurs?
"Is economic history in decline?" Like all the best academic conference session titles it invited the response "It all depends what you mean by . .." Any such debate tends to have hints of the...
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Pray for today
(Photograph) - Pray for today: Jan McDonald (left), professor of drama at Glasgow University, unveils a model of a proposed new centre for the study of theatre, film and television that has won...
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Bitter pill for drugs firms
Topics that have traditionally "scared the hell" out of the pharmaceutical industry will be discussed next week at an international conference organised by the University of Wales, Cardiff, and...
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Essex excess
Alumni to be proud of nos 7 and 8: Overlooked in the media attention paid to the appointment of John Bercow as adviser to Virginia Bottomley, now shouldering responsibility for Britain's rich...
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Evolving title
Steven Jay Gould, lecturing in London last week, revealed that even the most awe-inspiring of science writers can have problems with their editors. A paper he wrote on Darwin's drawing room at Down...
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Hard times
Software failure expert Bev Littlewood of City University had much to be depressed about this week. Not only does he think we are all in imminent danger of disaster from computer failure in our...
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Political animals
No contest for the Chicago participant whose name makes it most difficult to fulfil expectation -- James Thurber of the American University. Not a bloodhound or a picaresque anecdote of Ohio...
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Out to tender
The latest bulletin from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich is a celebration of the persistence of scientists, this time in trying to find an objective measure of our subjective experiences of...