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All eyes on the space race
Steve Farrar reports on the team of scientists striving to build the world's largest telescope and the anthropologist who is observing them When the multifaceted eye of the California Extremely Large...
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Running on a clean-up ticket
Italy's star anti-corruption campaigner wants to purge politics of big business. Unfortunately for him, a tycoon with a shady past is the likely next PM On the eve of Italy's general election,...
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One press pass that will open any door
Italy's next prime minister will probably be the richest man in the land, master of the country's three main commercial TV networks and of an empire that includes newspaper, magazine and book...
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A historical postmortem
The Wellcome Trust has been rounding up witnesses to record medicine's key events. Geoff Watts reports. The principle is simple. Choose a key medical event and invite the principal dramatis personae...
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Red light finds its way onto campus
Debt is forcing an increasing number of students into the sex trade. Matthew Chapman reports. Like most 20-year-old students, Sarah takes a mobile phone wherever she goes and it is constantly going...
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Latest UK news
PM addresses Warwick academics Prime minister Tony Blair added Warwick University to his election campaign trail today, visiting its international manufacturing centre and addressing...
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Latest international news
Iraq offers free education to Palestinians Saddam Hussein has offered free education in Iraqi universities to Palestinians living in areas under Palestinian Authority control. The Iraqi president...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times A team from the Georgia Institute of Technology has conducted a series of experiments aboard Nasa's KC-135 aircraft, testing the effects of intense sound on particles in almost zero-...
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Latest international news
Academics arrested after Ethiopian protests Two Ethiopian academics are being held under police guard on suspicion of instigating last month's student protests in which 30 people died. Mesfin Wolde...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph Bone marrow cells can provide a wide range of tissue to repair an ailing body, according to research at New York, Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities. The Times Charles Schweger,...
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Higher education appointments
University of Hull Steven Barwell , former fund-raiser for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed to the development and alumni relations office to develop the university's...
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Latest UK news
Report outlines e-learning future E-learning will change the role and skills of teachers, but not eliminate them, according to an Institute for Employment Studies report published this week. The...
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Latest international news
Eco urges vote against Berlusconi Semiologist Umberto Eco has appealed to Italians to vote against media magnate Silvio Berlusconi in Sunday's general elections. In the online magazine Golem...
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Latest UK news
Cornwall to get university A new university is to be built in Cornwall as part of a £54 million project to encourage youngsters to stay in the county. The Combined Universities of Cornwall in...