From today's UK papers
Today's main story The 100th Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to Sir Paul Nurse, the director general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, his British colleague Dr Timothy Hunt, the head of...
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Nobel prize physicists named American physicists Eric A. Cornell (JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT) and Carl E. Wieman (JILA and University of Colorado...
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Cell scientists win Nobel Scientist Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, was today awarded the Nobel prize for medicine. He shares it with his colleague Timothy Hunt and...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Oxford University scientists have discovered methods to detect breast cancer that will lead to earlier and more accurate diagnoses. Financial Times US business students remained level...
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Rio hospital cancels operations Surgical operations at Rio de Janeiro's Clementino Fraga Filho university hospital have been reduced from more than 50 per day to just six in a state of emergency...
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Funding boss to sideline RAE results
Researchers who improve their standing in the current research assessment exercise will receive no reward next year. And those who slip a grade will not be penalised. Sir Howard Newby, who took over...
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NEWS Life in the lab: is it irresponsible to encourage girls into science? FEATURES Critical mass: literary critic Jack Miles in conversation with theologian Anthony Freeman about his latest book on...
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Research in chaos after lab fire The British Antarctic Survey’s £2 million Bonner Laboratory has been destroyed by fire. The fire started at the building, at the Rothera Research Station on the...
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Lampl: fee system is rigged
Rich students should pay the full cost of tuition fees to subsidise poor undergraduates, according to university access champion Peter Lampl. Mr Lampl, director of the Sutton Trust, which funds...
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Ig Nobel pair tries to nail the bogey of nose-picking
In the name of science they studied shower curtains, nose-pickers and the wounds inflicted by falling coconuts. Last night, the proud winners of the annual Ig Nobel prizes picked up their gongs at...
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Student cash in melting pot: Labour Party Conference
'Don't expect too much' is the message from Brighton. Alan Thomson reports. Prime minister Tony Blair has ordered a special task group to review student funding policies raising the prospect of a...
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Ageing staff cohort threatens expansion
The proportion of university teachers aged over 50 is rising at an alarming rate, according to the Association for University Teachers. An analysis shows that the age profile has increased...
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Medical schools call for monitor
Leading figures in the Scottish medical Royal Colleges have called for the creation of a national body to investigate fraud and misconduct in biomedical research, writes Caroline Davis. More than...
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Middlesex to offer three semesters a year to international students
International students at Midd-lesex University are to be offered a three-semester year - and home students may be given the option if funding issues can be sorted out. Semester one exams will be...
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Quantum leap to combat shortage
A physics degree that requires neither physics nor mathematics A level could solve the chronic teacher shortage in physics, suggests a report this week. Institute of Physics president Sir Peter...