Stone dead together
New evidence of the brutish and short lives of Stone Age Britons has emerged thanks to work by academics from the University of Central Lancashire and Cardiff University. Carbon dating of human...
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Artwork with mite
Researchers at University College London have used their expertise in dust mites to help an artist highlight the hidden danger the bugs represent for people with asthma. Tadj Oreszczyn and Marcella...
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A life on the fiddle helped to make dream gig a reality
Irish folk music has always been close to Martin Dowling's heart, so much so that he married a flutist and honeymooned in Ireland on the proceeds of a couple of research grants. And now Dr Dowling,...
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Psychology A level joins the sciences
New status will boost university-level teaching, the British Psychological Society hears. Faisal al Yafai reports. Reclassifying A-level psychology as a science will benefit the teaching of the...
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The masters who married modernism with magic
On the 40th anniversary of One Hundred Years of Solitude , Roberto González EchevarrÃa charts the extraordinary recent history of Latin American literature. Latin American literature specialists...
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Meet and veg: that's our society on a plate
Why are humans the only creatures to share food with strangers? Karen Gold ponders over a degustation of ancient dishes with an archaeologist. To the squeamish and the vegetarian: look away now. For...
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Pirates and the Middle Passage
Popular accounts of piracy tend to overlook its close links with slavery. Richard Sanders considers how one dark trade fostered another. In December last year, the Museum of Science and Industry in...
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Boom time for 'the poor man's air force'
From central Baghdad to America's heartland, the car bomb is now the terrorist's weapon of choice, an urban historian tells Huw Richards. Almost nightly, television news broadcasts, especially those...
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Today's news
Cambridge applications fall as variable fees come in Cambridge University suffered a dramatic drop in applications last year after the introduction of variable tuition fees. While the number applying...
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Today's news
University of Manchester to axe 400 staff Four hundred jobs are to go at the University of Manchester to clear a £30 million debt, it has emerged. The university admitted that it is looking to make...
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Today's news
University data plan irks private schools Pupils applying for places at university could have their school's exam performance taken into account by admissions tutors under plans being considered by...
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Communication in Life Sciences Award
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Award for Young European Investigators
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