Two strains of mosquito responsible for the majority of malaria transmission in Africa have evolved such significant genetic differences they are becoming different species. The finding by a team of...
Archaelologists may have uncovered evidence of Britain's earliest known hospital. The University of Winchester's excavations at St Mary Magdalen, on the outskirts of the historic city, have revealed...
A post-1992 university has made its biggest investment yet in PhD studentships. The University of Northampton will spend £1.1 million on 24 new doctoral studentships in subjects ranging from the...
A Scottish university has signed a memorandum of understanding with a partner in Pakistan to introduce a new qualification to the country. The agreement, brokered between Queen Margaret University in...
Academics have launched a bid to reclaim the father of computer logic for the city of Lincoln. The 19th-century mathematician George Boole invented Boolean logic, which underlies the function of...
A university has acquired a leading think tank, saving 43 jobs. The Work Foundation, which focuses on employment issues, has been taken over by Lancaster University, although it will continue to...
A £3 million study of urban health has been launched with European Union funding. The University of Liverpool project will address the lack of comparability in the existing data on public health...
It is not just old age that causes wobbly pensioners to fall down the stairs - their genes could be at fault, too. Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have found that elderly women with a...
A Scottish university has linked up with a US Ivy League institution to boost scientific research. The University of Glasgow has signed a strategic agreement with Columbia University in New York that...
Museums are over-sensitive about displaying human remains and are hiding them away following demands for greater respect from minority groups such as pagans. So says a new book by Tiffany Jenkins, of...
IranDoubt? We can't have that"Western subjects" that are grounded in "materialism" corrupt the young, according to Iran's spiritual leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that subjects such as women's...
John Morgan reports from South Korea's capital on plans to establish an overseas campus
Universities in Ontario should abandon their efforts to do everything and adopt a "boutique" model focusing only on what they do best, according to a government advisory body.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILResearch Seminars CompetitionFunding has been awarded to 41 groups under the ESRC's Research Seminars Competition for 2009-10. The scheme aims to bring together...
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Pontius Pilate I am not...