Sound scientists at Southampton University are working on an ingenious solution to the problem of neighbours with a taste for loud dance music. A team at the university's Institute of Sound Vibration...
Jurassic Park has been re-consigned to the fantasy world by research casting doubt on scientific claims to have isolated ancient genetic material from fossils. Scientists at the Natural History...
Recent research may pave the way for white-clawed crayfish to join the list of British imports from France - not, like most, destined for our culinary world but for our natural one. Severe declines...
A Pounds 3 million research project is coming to the end of its three-year quest to find ways to reduce the noise generated by aircraft. At least one potential solution has been unearthed by experts...
VIRTUAL teamwork may soon be a working reality, thanks to a project underway in St Andrews University's computing division. Researchers there are developing a computer system which will allow users...
Shakespeare's debt to his junior colleague Thomas Middleton has not yet been fully acknowledged, according to research from Birmingham University. Not only did Middleton write significant parts of...
THE BATTLE over the creation of a new university in south-western Spain is intensifying as the University of Alicante and the socialist opposition have both decided to launch appeals against the...
THE SOROS Foundation of Belarus has been fined US$3 million for alleged tax offences following an interim report on its activities from tax inspectors commissioned by the Belarusian Security Council...
MORE THAN 10,000 teachers with secondary school qualifications are working full-time in higher education, the French education ministry has disclosed. A survey published by the ministry's assessment...
FOR THE first time in 30 years, candidates of the political right swept to victory in elections for student councils in many Italian universities, marking the end of a long-standing predominance of...
A DANISH fisheries inspection vessel arrives in Reykjavik next week with 15 parcels of 300 priceless documents on board - the final consignment from Copenhagen University of the ancient Icelandic...
MORE than 20 years ago Robert Donia, then a graduate student, visited Sarajevo for the first time and spent most of his time in the attractive but cramped old parliament building known as the...
AN ACADEMIC at the centre of a row in Hong Kong City University's law faculty plans to sue for wrongful dismissal after being ousted from the department last month. Derek Roebuck, a founder of the...
A JURY in Washington State recently awarded more than $1 million to a student who accused his college of passing on unverified allegations of rape. The alleged victim, the accused's ex-girlfriend,...
A STUDENT is suing her college after alleging that she was raped by the father of a family she was staying with while studying in Japan. Erika Eisenberg's lawsuit against Earlham College in Indiana...