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I have carried out a very similar study to Andrew Oswald's but I drew very different conclusions from my results. I studied the citation history of more than 600 papers published in 1990 in six...
I have carried out a very similar study to Andrew Oswald's but I drew very different conclusions from my results. I studied the citation history of more than 600 papers published in 1990 in six...
The opinion pieces about Colin Slee's sermon ("A beacon of hope or dogmatic analogy?" May 19) revealed as much about the writers' understanding of the Reformation as it did about the contemporary...
I was struck that two points of comparison were overlooked in the criticism of the Dean of Southwark's statement that the world was witnessing a "Muslim Reformation". First, both the Christian and...
The potential diversion of millions of pounds of funds from other research councils to a single fund for health research ("Councils may lose medical funding", May 26) will be to the detriment of UK...
Something nasty is happening on UK campuses, says David Cesarani, where anti-Jewish sentiment increasingly manifests intself as anti-Zionism. Newspaper reports in Israel and the US have depicted...
At a House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on immigration control in May, Gwyn Prosser, MP, told fellow members that while Leeds University had received some 2,500 applications from Nigerians, and...
Dylan Prentice, , a research student, lives for free on the Nitani Private Game Reserve in Botswana and has time to carry out his research. In return, he acts as an expert ranger and runs the ten-bed...
Three years ago, a handsome crumbling Art Deco hotel by the Indian Ocean near Cape Town was transformed into the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). It is an example of how South...
When US students were given laptops to aid in note-taking, many of them ended up surfing the net in lectures. Stephen Phillips explores the pitfalls of progress. When laptops first appeared in...
Nursing students fear that NHS cuts and suspect qualifications will harm job prospects. Nic Paton reports. Nursing has never been a field that one enters for an easy life. The pay is not great (...
'Go where jobs are' For Mark Waterman , a 33-year-old second-year nursing student at Coventry University, the lecturers' strike is taking a back seat concerns about the possible jobs situation in the...
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world. For some, the internet is an addiction. Others feel their computer is out to get them. What drives an internet addict and...
What is the relationship between science fiction and science fact? The Cheltenham Science Festival will explore the "first popular science writing". Papers include one on the earliest works of...
Why are we obsessed with others' lives - especially when they resemble freak shows? Sean Coughlan finds out. We've all seen their faces in bookshops - big colour close-ups or moody black and white -...
Brussels, 31 May 2006 The Commission gave a progress report on the development of the European Space Policy and road map. For the preparation of the European Space Policy and related Programme (ESP...