Suicide prevention
Ulster University researchers have called for a national database on suicides to discover why people take their own lives and monitor the effectiveness of measures to stop them. Tara Moore, course...
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Female quartet engineer big success at Edinburgh
Four women have made history at Edinburgh University through their appointment as professors in the School of Engineering and Electronics. Rebecca Barthelmie, Rebecca Cheung, Andrea Schaefer and Roya...
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Indian sorcerers find a degree of magic
An Indian university is taking a leaf out of Hogwarts' book and offering a masters degree in magic. The qualification at Visva-Bharati University in eastern India is being set up by Indian magician P...
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Japanese library is to be googled
A Japanese university has become the latest to have some of its library digitised by search engine Google. Keio University will be the first in Japan to join the project, which already involves 25...
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California boosts professorial pay
California's university system is pumping £35 million into boosting professorial pay. Recent pay rises at the University of California are intended to bring salaries into line with competing...
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Stormy weather ahead in the med
Global warming could trigger hurricanes in the Mediterranean, a team of Spanish and German academics has warned. Researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo and the Max Planck...
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Bologna process to be global model?
Countries around the world are looking to a European shake-up of higher education as a model for reform of their own systems, a conference was told. Michael Gaebel of the European University...
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Papa's Cats get health and fitness mot
An animal behaviour expert nicknamed the "cat whispurrer" is being drafted in to help after a row over the fate of 47 cats roaming author Ernest Hemingway's former home. Terry Curtis of Florida...
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Why our feet are made for walking
Chimps walking a on a treadmill have provided a clue as to why humans evolved to walk upright. Researchers from the University of Arizona, University of California-Davis and Washington University in...
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Microsoft provides research fillip
Microsoft has unveiled more than £3 million of funding for research in universities. More than £1.8 million will go to six areas where it seeks research proposals including tools using mobile phones...
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Robotic mining tested in australia
Mining giant Rio Tinto has agreed to fund one of the world's largest civilian robotics centres. The Centre for Mine Automation at the University of Sydney, which will have £2 million funding a year,...
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Gene variation points to heart disease
A common genetic variation is linked to a substantial increase in the risk of heart attacks, US researchers have found. The team at Emory University's School of Medicine, Duke University and the...
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Mental health research in Oz
A new ߣߣÊÓƵn research centre for mental health and wellbeing has been launched. The McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing at Melbourne...
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Restless legs could be relegated to past
Relief may be at hand, thanks to German researchers, for millions of people kept awake by twitching legs. Teams at the Max Plank Institute of Psychiatry and Munich's Technical University and National...
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Zeiss sponsors photonics chair
Leading optical firm Carl Zeiss has sponsored a professorship at a German university. A junior professorship in advanced computational photonics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Friedrich...