Crystal-clear simulation
Our ability to model and explore complex three dimensional structures, from molecules to galaxies, has been revolutionised by new computer technology. This allows us to construct, display and...
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Legal Journal
Law school lecturers at the University of Newcastle have put the UK's first electronic law journal on the World Wide Web, via the Internet. Mike Allen and Bruce Grant launched the bi-monthly Web...
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The billion byte brain
Since the Renaissance, scientific progress has been built on two planks: theory and experiment. Although these continue to be crucial to progress, what happens when the equations are not amenable to...
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How to prevent Internet gridlock
The transport user has little interest in planes, trains and automobiles, but wants to get from A to B quickly, safely, comfortably, securely and as cheaply as possible. The information user has...
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Mining the data-lode
We may be on the slip road to the information superhighway, but unfortunately it is rush hour all day every day. It does not help that the road is clogged with HGVs with "Bulk Data" stencilled on...
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Squirrel nut
(Photograph) - Bleddyn Richards has just completed an MSc at the University of Glamorgan on the impact of grey squirrels on commercial forestry. The animals look pretty but breed ferociously,...
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Survival battle for herbal medicine
Herbalists are predicting European medicine regulations will spell the end for their practice -- just as what is hailed as the first herbal medicine degree in Britain started at Middlesex University...
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Huddersfield meets wanderer William
Sir William Taylor has been in his new job for less than a fortnight but like his predecessor at the helm of Huddersfield University, he is making waves. Unsuspecting staff enjoying a drink in the...
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AUT attack on contract abuse
Lecturers this week accused universities of breaking national agreements on the employment of contract staff. The Association of University Teachers' attack is based on a survey of contract...
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Ballot on Scots pay deal
The future of national bargaining for Scotland's further education lecturers is in the balance this week, with staff being balloted on a new deal allowing some conditions to be negotiated locally....
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Peaceline campus gets Pounds 15m
The European Union is poised to announce a Pounds 15 million injection for the University of Ulster's proposed "peaceline" campus in West Belfast. Full details of the package agreed by European...
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CVCP encourages laboratory takeovers
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals this week called on Government departments and research councils to throw open their doors to universities interested in taking on public sector...
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Young bloods
The student edition of the British Medical Journal includes a helpful article by Alun Evans, a final-year medical student in London, and Simon Donovan, surgical officer in Hereford, on how medical...
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Slippery slope
Just as well that Buddhists do not go in for fatwas, or the public relations staff at La Sainte Union College and theology lecturer Danny Sullivan would be making hurried preparations for Rushdie-...
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Show down
Soapy science could have made its television debut, rivalling the familiar characters in the Rovers Return and the Queen Vic, if Salford's vice chancellor had his way. Tom Husband recently revealed...