Georgia Tech Lorraine, the European platform of the Georgia Institute of Technology, this week won a court case after two French watchdog bodies filed a suit alleging it had violated French law by...
3-D photography is the Holy Grail for computer graphics researchers. Toby Howard assesses how far they have come and where they plan to go It is gratifying when undergraduates come to the front at...
Skill shortages are here again. Employers are whingeing about lack of suitable staff. There is talk again of recruiting overseas. Salaries are going up faster than inflation. Poaching is back in...
FUNDING councils, research councils, companies, charities: they all agree that research needs expensive equipment. They part company, however, on who should provide it. The urgency of this issue,...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a researcher into dark times: "'Beth Hamishpath' - the House of Justice: these words shouted by the...
University of Birmingham Charities Dr W. Siebert, Pounds ,571 from Joseph Rowntree Foundation (company recruitment policies - implications for unskilled workers); Mr J. Visser, Pounds 45,167 from...
University of Bristol DLit: Basil Davidson, veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, author and historian University of Aberdeen LLD: Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere, professor and director of research at the...
University of Glasgow Mungo Campbell (above) has been appointed deputy director of the Hunterian Art Gallery at the university. He is the former assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the...
Forget psychiatry andother modern approachesto relieving depression. Ancient Greek philosophy holds the key to a happy life, as Richard Sorabji explains to Lucy Hodges Overwhelmed by events? Help may...
Alan Dershowitz defended Claus von Bulow and helped O. J. Simpson beat a murder rap. Here hetalks to Tim Cornwell about hislatest concern, the future of the Jewish race Today is Wednesday," Alan...
A 19th-century Aboriginal leader's skull lies in Everton cemetery, but attempts to repatriate it have so far foundered. Chris Johnston reports Cressida Fforde is calm, rational, if not a little...
Is the TV quiz show University Challenge just a game or an important shop window for universities? Phil Baty reports It's just a bit of fun," insists Peter Gwyn, producer of Granada Television's...
Lee Smolin aims to breathe new life into cosmology by borrowing concepts from biology, notably natural selection. Ayala Ochert reports When cosmologist Lee Smolin turned to biology for inspiration...
'It could be you!' The glittering figures of Britain's hot young artists tower above this year's graduates. But have Thatcher's children been prepared for reality and how many will hit the jackpot?...
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