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Academics and MPs reacted with anger this week to news that research councils had accidentally underspent by millions of pounds, while top-rated research proposals are being turned away. The Medical...
You need neither muscles nor testosterone to work a computer, said Jackie Edwards, the winner of the inaugural Aurora Woman of Technology award. Ms Edwards, who also won the Best Woman in Technology...
* Oxford University has appointed: Nicholas Rawlins , professor of behavioural science at the university, to the Watts chair of psychology; Jonathan Zittrain , former Jack N. Berkman and Lillian R....