Venice, 23 September 2005 First World Conference on the Future of Science, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Venice, 23 September 2005 Dear Senator, Your Excellency, Dear Professors, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am...
Paris, 23 Sep 2005 Images As Hurricane Rita entered the Gulf of Mexico, ESA's Envisat satellite's radar was able to pierce through swirling clouds to directly show how the storm churns the sea...
Paris, 22 September 2005 ESA's Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from the beginning of December 2005. The decision, taken on 19 September by ESA's...
This is not a weird place, Cambridge tells teachers in state education Teachers in state schools still feel uncomfortable about encouraging pupils to apply to Cambridge and have to be persuaded that...
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work famous for its queries: "My design in this book is not to explain the properties of light by...
The Torture Papers - Torture and Truth
Vice-chancellors were urged to take a hard look at the performance of their departments this week as the first national student satisfaction survey revealed that many "unfashionable" universities are...
Academics are happy to undergo training - just so long as you don't call it that. Many see it as an activity beneath them, say university career development experts who are now busy rebranding...
Scottish Green Party chief Robin Harper, the new rector of Aberdeen University, vows to battle depression taboos It is not often a politician is paraded through city streets astride a stuffed bull,...