Dons prepare for contracts battle
Oxford dons are squaring up for battle over the future of the collegiate teaching structure at the university, as constitutional changes are thrashed out this term. Two issues, "with huge impact on...
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Universitas 21 is to expand
The Universitas 21 global group of universities is set to expand and has invited the University of California at Berkeley to join. Berkeley is still discussing the invitation, according to a spokes-...
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Chemical weapons laws to be tightened
Academic lawyers and biologists are attempting to plug a yawning gap in international conventions outlawing chemical and biological weapons. They want to open global discussions on a new convention...
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Bringing the old bones to life
Time Machines - Dinosaur Impressions
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Newcomer that lacks ancestry
The Engineering of Chemical Reactions
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Scot about a Leicester in Warwickshire: "It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open...
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Antidote to hysterical headlines
Magic Molecules
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Prussian animated by English sewage
Justus von Liebig
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In pursuit of peace and protein
Dorothy Hodgkin
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Progeny of Persia, incendiary in Iran
An Islamic Utopian
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Liturgy, rite and taboo
Birth, Marriage and Death
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Exploring China from Japan
The Chemistry of Ceramics
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Chemical saviours
Electrochemistry
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How flows the mantle?
Kinetic Theory in the Earth Sciences - The Earth's Mantle
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Mining with an open mind
Environmental Geology