Video stills the criminal star
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. The video footage of a murderer's getaway car, which was so blurred that not even...
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Male fish play mating game to boost yields
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. A biologist has mated two male fish, producing some "extra" male offspring with...
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Satellite snooping approaches legal orbit
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. An American academic says she was asked by the Los Angeles police department this...
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Students' day of triumph
France's student unions claimed victory this week after the government shelved university reforms in the face of strikes and demonstrations. But they went ahead with a march yesterday to press for...
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Pounds 500 million bonus
Greater Manchester's universities contribute more than Pounds 500 million per year to the local economy and account for 17,300 jobs in the north-west, says a survey conducted by academics at the...
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Royal professors
The Royal Society plans to appoint four research professors in science, engineering and technology. The professorships will allow scientists to carry out research without the burdens of...
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Trusts disrupt medical training
Negotiations between universities and the National Health Service on medical education have been thrown into confusion by the advent of hospital trusts, Sir William Fraser, principal of Glasgow...
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Welsh winner at CVCP
Gareth Roberts, vice chancellor of Sheffield University, is to be the next chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Professor Roberts, 54, defeated John Stoddart of Sheffield...
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Budget hits atom smasher
British particle physicists this week were faced with the prospect of a big slowdown in their programme for building the giant detectors to be used by the Large Hadron Collider particle smashing...
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Indian student uncorks varsity race row
An Indian student's attempt to discover why he was refused entry to the elite Cambridge University Food and Wine Society has left a distinctly bad taste in the mouth. Udi Goyal's investigation...
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On the ball
Never let it be said that The THES has no influence. No sooner had we reported that the Nigerian university system was expected to close for the duration of this year's Junior World Cup than FIFA...
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Plugged in
Further academic soaps nominated by Mark Griffiths of Plymouth University include Only Fools and Courses, Tears Before B.Ed Time, Did You B.Sc, Low Grant and that well-known university-based crime...
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Cataract lab pioneers human touch
A laboratory to house world-leading, non-animal research into cataracts opens today at the University of East Anglia. The Pounds 170,000 lab is funded by the Humane Research Trust, which supports...