Brussels, 19 Jul 2006 Thanks to a quantum physics breakthrough, European and American physicists are, electron-by-electron, pushing back the resistance barriers stifling current generation computers...
I have just run a major programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Three Iranians, graduate students and postdocs in the US, were unable to attend because of...
Imperial College London has poached a team of leading theoretical physicists from Queen Mary, University of London. The group of string theorists is led by Chris Hull, who is credited with playing a...
"Ivory towers v corporate boardrooms" was the topic of an open discussion meeting with young scientists that I was involved in at last year's British Association Festival of Science in Dublin. The...
Cross-border, joint supervision of doctoral candidates can have benefits for everyone, says Ruth Morse. Mobility has become one of those undoubted goods to which we all subscribe, and it implies some...
Cross-border, joint supervision of doctoral candidates can have benefits for everyone, says Ruth Morse. Mobility has become one of those undoubted goods to which we all subscribe, and it implies some...
LSE has quotas for state students A leading university is operating a secret quota system favouring state educated pupils at the expense of better qualified applicants from the independent sector, it...
Manchester University emerged as the big winner in the second round of Research Councils UK Fellowship Awards designed to nurture postgraduate talent. Manchester won 22 of the 400 fellowships...
Brussels, 17 May 2005 El Niño, the name given to the periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean off the western coast of South America, and its associated cold phase (La Niña), both...
Supernova: the Black Hole BBC Two, 10pm Tuesdays from October 11 Despite my 35 years' experience of astronomy and professional observers, it had never occurred to me that an observatory could provide...
Misconduct is part of human nature, laments Tim Birkhead. Even scientists are at it It's not been a good week: a lot of exam marking, a wet field course and three separate instances of scientific...
In response to Julia Goodfellow ("Women told to find 'lab of their own' to succeed", June 4), I would love to have a lab of my own and a grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
Despite Simon Inger's despair (Letters, THES, September 19), the real postdoc blues are those who achieve a doctorate in midlife and are discriminated against because of their age. I was an 11-plus...
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 The number of UK biochemistry PhD graduates that choose to work abroad or leave science altogether fell sharply in 2003, according to the latest edition of the UK Biochemical...
Brussels, 12 May 2005 In light of the increased global competition for top-level students and researchers, a comprehensive effort is needed to attract the best to the US, according to a new report by...