Partners in Cupid target industry
Cupid, a new Scottish university consortium, is hoping to spark a romance with industry that could make the United Kingdom a world leader in display technology. Visual displays on machines are...
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Life story inside a cell
Debate on cloning is confusing the issue of using embryonic stem cells, says Peter Andrews. Some 3,000 years ago, a scribe in the Chaldean city of Nineveh wrote on a clay tablet: "When a woman gives...
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Lasers power mini machines
Scientists have built a laser-driven rotor no bigger than a pollen grain that could help power the micromachines of the future. One minute optical windmill, fashioned from resin, has been rotated by...
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Deep-freeze dangers of IVF
The freezing and thawing of human embryos can double or even triple the number of chromosomes in living cells, with potentially serious consequences for unborn offspring. The process was observed in...
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All quiet on the quantum front
Heard the one about the lab with a black hole? Caroline Davis reports on the latest in wave physics. Nothing can escape a black hole. Its gravitational pull is so strong that all matter and energy,...
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Cutting Edge: Tony Martin
One of the world's unsung endangered species, the river dolphin, can be saved given sufficient funds and the political will. Male pink dolphins make nocturnal forays into the small human communities...
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Agony aunt: Jargon busting
Q: I am confused by the jargon and acronyms my university is using when inviting funding bids for teaching and learning projects. Is there a guide through the maze? A: The main national sources of...
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Star Turn: Jonathan Levie
Who were the entrepreneurs of the gold rush? The pick and shovel makers. Olga Wojtas takes a lesson in money-making Jonathan Levie is in Glasgow. Julian Lange is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Together...
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How to: Break the ice for newcomers
WHAT A graduate school at the University of Manchester has found that student peer mentoring is a huge success WHY Mentors gain valuable skills and mentees are shown the ropes, say Carole Keeling and...
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Israel opts to halve college tuition fee
An Israeli government committee caved in to pressure last week and halved university tuition fees for the country's 200,000 students. The concession was welcomed by the office of beleaguered prime...
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Academics taught how to woo firms for cash
The University of Central Lancashire is to teach its academic staff how to woo industry and win commercial business in a £30,000 training scheme. Courses in areas such as business skills, negotiation...
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Virtual courtroom prepares vulnerablewitnesses
Computer scientists at Nottingham University are creating a "virtual courtroom" to help prepare vulnerable witnesses for real-life questioning by barristers. The move follows changes in the law...
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Music is the food of love @...
Colour images of priceless, fragile and rarely seen medieval music manuscripts held in repositories across the United Kingdom are now available through the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music...
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Critics spy strings in the name game
An identity change is sweeping over Canadian business faculties as they continue to name themselves after major benefactors. About a fifth of the 55 business faculties in the country have either...
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IT news in brief
High wired Loughborough University has completed a £1 million five-year project to provide high-speed internet access for all its hall-based students. More than 5,100 rooms in Loughborough's 15 halls...