The Los Alamos E-Print Archive has helped thousands of physicists and mathematicians worldwide to gain access to a wealth of research over the past ten years. Julia Hinde looks at its success. A...
Despite extreme heat, archaeologists converge every year from July to September on a dusty Turkish plain. Dz¹³Ù²¹±ô³óö²âü°ì has become one of the world's busiest archaeological sites, but size can have its...
It is a 9,000-year-old, early Neolithic village - considered by some to be the world's first city. Some say it could have housed up to 10,000 people. It was unearthed in the 1960s and was found to...
The reverse brain drain of researchers leaving the United States looks set to gather pace after the House of Representatives voted this week to ban all cloning of human embryos. The congressmen...
US scientists say animal welfare regulations under consideration by Congress could strangle medical research with red tape, writes Stephen Phillips. Plans to extend the US Animal Welfare Act (AWA) to...
The lack of geometry in the new A and AS-level mathematics courses means students no longer have a suitable foundation for university science and engineering courses, according to a report published...
Andy Cartwright, a chemical and pharmaceutical sciences student at Sunderland University, has solved a problem that dogged experts at GlaxoSmithKline. He used the advanced analytical sciences...
British scientists took their first steps into a brave new computing world this week, following an award of £5.5 million to Edinburgh and Glasgow universities to set up a national e-science centre....
Tory leader hopeful Ken Clarke's recent comments criticising the abolition of grants and the introduction of student tuition fees should come as no surprise. His penchant for beer, fags and...
The board of Channel Four directors that approved the Brass Eye "mocumentary" on paedophilia includes the master of Balliol College, Oxford, Andrew Graham, who was recently tipped as a possible...
Roderick Floud, president of Universities UK, has called on the government to review its student loans and tuition fees policy urgently. Professor Floud, who took over as president from Sir Howard...
Drop in college enrolments Government figures published last week showed a 1.8 per cent fall in further education enrolments for 1999-2000 compared with the previous year. Some 705,300 students aged...
Renewed calls for a body to deal with allegations of scientific misconduct have been rebuffed by the Office of Science and Technology. The move came as the Wellcome Trust said that from October 2002...
An anti-Semitic campaign against a prominent scholar at Liverpool John Moores University led to a bomb scare and an investigation by Special Branch, an employment tribunal heard this week. Oliver...
Further evidence of massive overspending at the National Union of Students has come to light in documents seen by The THES . The discovery follows previous leaked papers that spoke of a "culture of...