Brussels, 08 Aug 2006 As Europe's first spacecraft to orbit the Moon completes its mission, debate over the construction of a lunar base has been reignited by an announcement from Japan that it...
Brussels, 08 Aug 2006 New research from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne (EPFL) Brain Mind Institute shows that the brain continually forms new connections following new experiences....
London, 8 August 2006 A further £2m for constructing and testing out a prototype particle accelerator facility at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, to be the world's first, will help assure the...
Higher pass rate drops for first time since 2002 Rising pass rates for Scotland's flagship exam suffered a blip this year, according to results released today. Figures show that the proportion of...
Cardiff tops best value list Cardiff University has been declared the best value university in Britain, according to a league table that found the city combined low living costs with the...
London, 4 August 2006 International Education Comparisons - A compendium of published information on education provision and achievement in 10 countries (2180 KB) The position of the United Kingdom...
The Long Tail
Classic Biographies series
The Intellectuals and the Flag
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a West Indian writer: "One grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about...
Gilgamesh - The Literature of Ancient Sumer
Colossus
The Jasons
The Science of Doctor Who
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London