The University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has topped a shortlist to receive funding for interplanetary exploration. The institute has won funding for one of three initiatives that have...
Expansion in Indian higher education is being aided by a UK university. The University of Warwick's WMG unit has signed a partnership with IIT Kharagpur in support of an Indian government initiative...
A British university's Malaysian outpost has been rated among the top institutions in the country. The University of Nottingham's Malaysia Campus has been awarded the highest possible rating in a...
Researchers are looking for volunteers willing to spend time living in an "iSpace" where household appliances "learn" to turn themselves on and off at the right times. Scholars at the University of...
This stained-glass window was designed by George Bernard Shaw and made by Caroline Townshend in 1910 to celebrate the Fabian Society, the influential centre-left think tank that played a central role...
Strategy ties 'enlightened self-interest' to creation and spread of knowledge. Hannah Fearn reports
A major study of entrepreneurship among US academics suggests that the majority of spin-off businesses are not based on patentable knowledge.According to the survey of more than 11,500 academics...
We all know China is serious about investing in its universities. But it is also serious about measuring and benchmarking their performance.
University of AberdeenChristian HaerpferA scholar who dreamed of being a professor of politics in the "academic paradise" of Britain since he was 15 years old has become the first Austrian to be...
Job hunters have always suspected that the key to a plum position is not what you know but who you know, and now research from Edinburgh Napier University's Employment Research Institute has proven...
Researchers have developed a vaccine that purports to treat aggressive cancers faster, reduce side-effects from chemotherapy and ultimately delay the disease's onset. Scientists at Middlesex...
Marmots are growing larger and becoming hardier. These are the findings of a 33-year study by scientists at Imperial College London, the University of Sheffield and collaborators in the US that has...
Highly educated people often assume their politics are left wing even when they are not. James Rockey, lecturer in economics at the University of Leicester, used the World Values Survey to compare...
A trial will investigate whether the early use of splints designed to hold weakened feet correctly in position can help stroke survivors to walk again. The cast supports the weakened foot and ankle...
The supermarket chain Waitrose is to further research into global food security by funding an academic chair in the discipline. In a partnership with Aberystwyth University, the retail giant will...