Rangers restore the peace
After 11 years of armed paramilitary presence on the campus of the University of Karachi, a relative peace reigns. But there is still little democracy - student unions were banned in 1984. "...
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Maths suffers falling numbers
Australian universities face a critical shortage of mathematicians. In the past five years, more than 25 per cent of the academics in maths departments have quit, and few, if any, new appointments...
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Arap Moi sets up private college
A year before he is due to retire from active politics, Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi has opened a private university on his 400-acre farm in Nakuru, 200km from Nairobi. Kabarak University was...
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Vatican Commission attacks 'Hitler's pope'
An international commission of historians set up by the Vatican in an attempt to clear Pope Pius XII of charges of maintaining a silence during the Holocaust has instead published a report highly...
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Dark elements of US gold rush
US science is breaking new ground and reaping huge profits. But there is bad news with the good, says John Stackhouse. Harvey Cohen does not have to look far to see science's new golden age. From...
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Green roots of the Incas
The Incas were a race of eco-warriors who built their empire on solid environmental foundations, according to new research. Many of the great civilisations, such as the Roman and Mayan, ultimately...
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Human risk in cattle practice
The use of an antibiotic to treat cattle is accelerating the spread of resistant strains of human stomach bugs, according to a new risk assessment. Les Crawford and colleagues at the Georgetown...
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Virus gives cancer hope
The prospect of developing a virus that selectively kills cancer cells sounds too good to be true. But a virus that can do just this, at least in the test tube, already exists. The question of...
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Cutting edge: Raymond Spier
Ethics and the teaching of responsibility in research are under the microscope. When trust goes out the window accountability comes in through the door - which means that researchers and their...
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Life on the 100ft ocean wave
Scientist Penny Holliday recalls being waylaid by world record waves while working in the North Atlantic. We had been expecting awful weather. The statistics showed how bad conditions were likely to...
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Size does matter in computer future
Liverpool scientists unveil nanoscale electronic components that build themselves. The electronics industry underwent a fundamental change with the invention of the transistor, paving the way for the...
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Don's Diary
1989 Article in the British Medical Journal shows that BSE, a disease of cattle, may pose a risk to humans. My colleague Richard Lacey predicts a cover-up, and we get hold of as much data as possible...
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In the news
The pope is to nominate Sir Thomas More, St Thomas More in the Catholic faith, as patron saint of politicians. But is Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor turning in his grave at having such a dubious honour...
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On the move
The following have been appointed to chairs at the University of Bristol : Nigel Franks , professor of animal behaviour and ecology at the University of Bath, to the chair of biological sciences;...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Ulster has given the 14th Dalai Lama an honorary degree (DLitt). Steve Bull , former footballer with Wolverhampton Wanderers, has received an honorary fellowship from the University...