Ray of light for breast cancer scans
Breast-screening could in the future be done without X-rays using a technique that is as harmless as a reading lamp, a conference heard last month. The screening harnesses rays that are just beyond...
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Particle explosion
If only by virtue of their discipline you might expect particle physicists to be a fragmentary lot, rarely coalescing. But the opposite appears to be true. Following on from their amazing collective...
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Government opens industrial gateway
A radical multimillion pound scheme to boost academic research into industrial technologies is on the Government launch pad. The Government is planning to establish research centres in organisations...
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Exam chaos hits students
Students at two universities are complaining about last-minute rescheduling of exams which they fear could affect their chances of success. At the University of Wales, Cardiff, they have called for...
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Birds worth two in the bush
The ornithological community has been divided by a proposal for a new definition of species which could double the number of bird species in the world to 20,000. Some specialists are predicting that...
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Vocational value fails to impress
Government efforts to raise the status and value of post-16 vocational qualifications have failed, a report published this week concludes. It says the gap between the aspirations of school-leavers...
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Fender outlines plans for extra students
Universities and colleges would be able to bid for extra students by promoting their most valuable features under proposals being prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. A peer...
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Computers take elocution lessons
A research team from the University of Nottingham is developing a speech synthesiser that should give computers personalised voices. Mervyn Curtis, a lecturer in the department of electrical and...
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TLTP maps new terrain
Two million years flash past in a few seconds. Wind and rain wear away a Rwandan mountain top and clothe the lower slopes with soil. Animated graphics give a rapid intuition of the processes at work...
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Motor math
A Loughborough University project to develop computer based teaching material has been awarded Pounds 8,600 by the Esso Higher Education Support Scheme. Led by Steve Rothberg of the university's...
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Perfectly formed
Worcester College of Technology has invested a Pounds 239,000 Government grant in a computer-integrated manufacturing system from the Yorkshire firm Denford. It includes robots, an automated guided...
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Abstract number
(Photograph) - Abstract number: A mural to mark the life of local baker's son George Green, 19th-century mathematician and physicist, was unveiled at the University of Nottingham recently. The mural...
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Welsh chiefs fire single quality agency broadside
Welsh higher education heads have fired a warning shot at the planning group for a single quality agency in protest at plans for a "closely directed" quality regime. In their response to the group's...
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Marlboro man makes it
A top United States-based tobacco magnate who has raised millions of dollars for Cambridge University will be awarded an honorary doctorate next month. The revelation comes during a week when the...