Newt expert hits top
A scientist studying the effect of climate change on the life cycle of newts has been identified as the 10,000th user of a national database on weather and atmospheric measurements. Kerry Murton, a...
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Novel nanoparticles
A team at Leicester University is developing a new way of making nanoparticles, microscopic particles often used in electronics and medicine. The discovery was made by Andrew Ellis and Shengfu Yang...
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Porcine perception
The earliest domesticated pigs in Europe were not descended from European wild boar, as many archaeologists believe, but were introduced from the Middle East by Stone Age farmers, new research...
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ICU insights
Oxford University researchers have published interviews with friends and family of intensive care patients on the health website DIPEx.org. Some 38 people describe their experiences of a loved one's...
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Cartoon Faust
Bradford University is bringing 3D animation into a production of the opera Faust. The project, funded by the Arts Council England and run in collaboration with a local production company, The Silver...
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'We found bodies with hands tied'
Ian Hanson, lecturer in forensic archaeology, Bournemouth University "There are two ways to deal with a body," forensic archaeologist Ian Hanson tells his students. "You can look at it as an...
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Welsh knowledge transfer plan 'fails'
Attempts to boost knowledge transfer between Welsh universities and businesses are having little impact on the economy, a study has concluded. So-called "third leg" funding, intended to help...
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Finland may charge foreign students
The Finnish Government is drawing up legislation to allow it to charge university tuition fees to overseas students. The draft bill could allow universities to charge students from outside the...
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Alien brains boost American economy
The US is experiencing a "brain gain", with more than 1 million skilled immigrant workers competing for 120,000 permanent US resident visas each year, a report from three US universities suggests....
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Canadians set world records for fun
Students at a Canadian university will try to break two unusual world records to celebrate the start of the new academic year. Students at the University of Guelph will try to gain a place in the...
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Research funding shuffle in Holland
Dutch universities fear that as many as 1,100 jobs could be in danger if planned changes to the funding of scientific research go ahead. The Education Ministry in the Netherlands plans to shift...
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Oilman gifts a gusher of cash to university
The head of an oil company has given $50 million (£25 million) to a US university. Paul L. Foster, the chief executive of Western Refining, gave Texas Tech University its largest donation ever. The...
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Minnesotans find plenty of nothing
"Researcher discovers nothing" does not sound particularly spectacular, but scientists at the University of Minnesota have discovered some ground-breaking nothingness. The research team has found a...
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'Ooh, he's lovely': monkey mums speak
A University of Chicago study has found similarities between human mothers and monkeys. The research found that female rhesus monkeys have their own version of baby talk when communicating with young...
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Iowa state is a good place to go ape
A US university and North America's largest ape research centre will form a partnership to create what they hope will be the world's pre-eminent centre for primate studies. Iowa State University and...