Flake by flake, Paul Cadman lifted paint from a table for his thesis on conservation techniques. What he revealed, writes Anne McHardy, was an 18th-century treasure Paul Cadman looked at the table,...
The student strike that has shut Mexico's top university for nine months turned violent this week. One person was killed as a group tried to reclaim the campus. Tim Cornwell reports A university that...
John Davies looks for useful TV and radio programmes (all times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Let us consider two approaches to (visual) art on Sunday. First, on Channel 5, art historian Tim...
Academics have a duty to help dispel the bunkum in scaremongering debates, says Steve Farrar Here is a vision of the future. Dark skies drizzle filthy rain on polluted cities. In the overcrowded...
Should the subject of food be served with an academic garnish, or is it best eaten with a dollop ofamateur scholarship? Anne Sebba reports on the emergence of a discipline Food studies, a popular...
Is Earth locked into an extinction cycle? Are we really under threat from a meteorite or asteroid shower? David Raup discusses the work that suggests such events might happen at regular intervals As...
George Bain, vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has condemned the 11-plus selection system for breeding "social apartheid". Professor Bain, speaking at a school prize-giving, said he...
Britain's highest paid academic has broken through the Pounds 250,000 barrier, The THES can reveal. John Quelch, dean of the London Business School, earned Pounds 252,000 from public funds in the...
Dundee University drugs research has been given a Pounds 1.3 million boost. Researchers, backed by the Medical Research Council, have been working with a consortium of major companies to create new...
A new archive and research unit on German-Jewish communities was opened at the University of Sussex yesterday, on the day Germany held its official Holocaust Memorial Day. The centre for German-...
Astronomers have resumed their exploration of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope. Images of remote galaxies and dying stars have been issued for the first time since the Earth-orbiting eye...
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* One of the United Kingdom's most respected scientists has been suspended from his post at Oxford University and has temporarily stepped down as a governor of the Wellcome Trust after complaints...
Students occupied the School of African and Oriental Studies in London this week demanding that those unwilling or unable to pay tuition fees not be penalised. The college was closed after students...
The number of computing and information science students at Scottish higher education institutions has risen by 9 per cent this year compared with 1998-99. This is the biggest rise in any subject...