Fancy a look at my lab, darling?
Artists' creativity soars when they are courting. Scientists, it seems, make discoveries at a similar sexual pitch. Raj Persaud reports Is male scientific creativity basically an attempt to...
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Add a little onion to make a healthy burger
Raising the amount of reducing sugars such as glucose in hamburgers can halve the quantity of possible carcinogens generated during cooking, scientists have found. Experts at the Tokyo University of...
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Footprints are key to explosion of life
Fossilised trackways from the Grand Canyon, resembling little more than the idle doodles of some ancient stonecarver, are helping scientists trace out the emergence of complex life on earth. The...
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In utero injection could cure cystic fibrosis
A radical gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, delivered to the foetus while it is still in the womb, is a step closer following the successful transference of transgenes to the lungs of five monkeys....
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Wellcome centre to close
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, based at Oxford University, is to be disbanded following a year of rows and inquiries. The trust said a new director had not been...
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Equality body left leaderless
A major university initiative to combat discrimination in higher education employment suffered a setback this week when it was left without a head. The announcement that Phil Barnet, director of...
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Safety at Spanish BSE lab queried
Spain's BSE testing centre is fighting allegations that laboratory conditions at its University of Zaragoza base are unsafe. There has been a complaint that dissection equipment is shared with other...
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Latest international news
Campus victory for gay couples Gay couples have won the right to “marry” in the gothic chapel of Duke University in North Carolina. Duke already allows same-sex commitment ceremonies for...
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Researchers guilty of misconduct
The General Medical Council found two researchers from King's College London medical school guilty of serious professional misconduct, both for dishonesty, in separate cases this week. A third...
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Latest UK news
Exam body told to reform The Scottish Qualifications Authority must adopt a culture of openness and cooperation, according to a report published today by the Scottish Parliament’s education committee...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN Graduates are an increasingly powerful and demanding group, brimming with confidence and forcing employers to fulfil their expectations or risk losing the war for talent, a survey from...
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Agony aunt
Q: As a tutor, I am the first port of call for students who are unhappy with their courses and want to switch. What advice can I give them? Andrew West , Senior assistant registrar, student services...
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Talking shop: blurring the lines
Jennifer Moon explores how to engender a multi-disciplinary outlook A flood of Quality Assurance Agency papers has poured into higher education this past year, yet most are directed towards the type...
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How to... design mix 'n' match courses
WHAT Ronald Barnett, Kelly Coate and Gareth Parry make sense of study programmes. WHY Curriculum planning is a complicated, yet necessary part of improving degree quality. HOW The undergraduate...
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A human face still beats net
The market for online business courses is booming, says Tony Tysome, but the best maintain the personal touch. When students enrol on Warwick University Business School's 15-year-old distance-...