Man is messing up the climate so let's act now
Floods are proof enough that the UK must respond to its change in weather, says Merylyn McKenzie Hedger. At a recent forum on the south coast, the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and others...
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Net is on course for a hot guide
As the first member of her family to go to university, Amanda Gregory fully appreciates the liberating power of higher education. She is also aware that the wrong choice can be both financially and...
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Iberian spin-offs start to spring up
Spin-off companies are starting to appear in Spain and Portugal after link-ups between industry and universities. Chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay is involved in two new spin-offs in the...
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Better red
A graphic poster designed by Attik ( www.attik.com </a> ) that will help to launch an 'internet bloodbank' on Monday. D&AD (British Design and Art Direction) has linked with image...
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Students seek perfect match
Dundee College has launched a service that uses dating agency technology to help students find jobs. The on-campus Job Service for Students will use a database to match eligible students with...
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Elite recruit
Wolverhampton University e-learning professor Steve Molyneux is the only European representative to be invited to join an elite new think-tank. The United States' National Science Foundation is...
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Research hotel
The way people cope with information displayed by machines is to come under the microscope at the University of Abertay's new Electronic, Photonic and Information Control Centre (Epicentre). The...
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Heads for a fall
Students are confident about their abilities to comprehend what is involved in original research, according to a survey by Headfiller, a student website from Blackwells. But lecturers asked to...
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Fatal replay
Technology developed at the University of Nottingham, similar to that used in movies such as Jurassic Park and The Matrix, will be used in a UK courtroom to transport the coroner, jury and witnesses...
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Gut feeling
Researchers at Robert Gordon University are to investigate whether the food and drink industry could do better if companies communicated in their customers' language. The national Scotlang project,...
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Name game
The number of domain names registered on the internet has passed the 30 million mark for the first time. The total number of registrations on October 4 2000 was 30,2,862. The most popular internet...
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Cerf's up
Vinton Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet Protocol and "father of the internet", will lecture in Cambridge tomorrow as a guest of the Internet Society of England, the Cambridge...
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Canada logs on to learn online
The Canadian Virtual University has become the largest online institution in the country after its launch last month. The new university is an amalgamation of seven universities that received more...
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A small step closer to a virtual world
Researchers at the University of Warwick have brought the possibility of virtual worlds as immersive as the real world a step closer. Until now virtual environments have been severely limited by the...
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Witch excuse now?
Railtrack boss Gerald Corbett should have given a talk to MBA students and staff at the Judge Institute in Cambridge on Tuesday, but it was cancelled. Water on the line? Or witches?