MPs face fire from disgruntled scientists
Disillusioned young scientists warned MPs this week that they were facing a crisis of conscience when undergraduates asked them to recommend a career in science. About 150 early-career scientists...
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Lancaster sets up for infusion of new blood
Lancaster University is preparing to recruit more teaching and research staff in health and medicine as it presses ahead with development plans that could lead to the creation of a new medical school...
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Who got that job?
Emily Quinn, teaching fellow in visual studies, Heriot-Watt University Job advertised in The Times Higher, August 5, 2005 Emily Quinn has fallen in love with cashmere. She discovered it - expensive,...
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Presidency's Progress Report on the Proposed Regulation Laying Down the Rules for Participation in the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) (link)
Brussels, 02 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 6879/06 Suite of documents 6879/06 No. Cion.prop. 5057/06 RECH 1 CODEC 4 - COM(2005) 705 final Subject: Proposal for a Regulation of the European...
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New study to investigate ill effects of heavy metal
Brussels, 02 Mar 2006 Exposure to toxic metals is considered to be a significant contributor to the downfall of the Roman Empire (lead), and madness in hatmakers- leading to the phrase 'as mad as a...
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How open is the hi-tech marketplace across the Atlantic? Transatlantic debate Brussels and Washington
Brussels, 02 Mar 2006 Friends Of Europe have organised an 'Atlantic Rendez-vous' TV debate to discuss innovation and the transatlantic hi-tech marketplace. It will take place on 17 March at the...
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Discipline Hopping Awards
Deadline: 01/05/2006
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Today's news
Lecturers' strike still on despite talks offer University lecturers have insisted they will strike next week despite a last-ditch attempt by employers to have the action called off. The University...
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A single science for our young universe
Evolving Cosmos
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Kodak moments are nowadays the province of pixels
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel written while the author was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War: "I...
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A light spark of intellect
The History of the Laser
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A killer with a healing touch
Radiation and Modern Life
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Due to questionable controls, automatons go on ice-cream attack
Autonomous Robots