When jobs are only heaven sent
What does it take for a scientist to earn a decent living? It took the discovery of a comet to give Alan Hale financial security and the chance to champion the cause of the planet's jobless...
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The 6th EU Research Framework Programme
The 6th EU Research Framework Programme Bruxelles, le juin 2002 Frequently asked questions What is the EU Research Framework Programme (FP)? The FP is the EU's main instrument for research funding in...
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Leading from the front
UK scientists agree money should be spent on European projects. But why are they not doing more to lead the challenge against the Americans? Steve Farrar reports. It split the last Conservative...
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Crystal clear for chemists
Chemistry undergraduates at Heriot-Watt University are to use research-level computer software to improve their understanding of molecular shape and bonding. The CAChe quantum chemistry and molecular...
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Careers: In the City
Pack up your PhD and head for the City where the computer screens are painted in pound signs for the ambitious researcher, says Natasha Loder GETTING a PhD is not the obvious route towards making a...
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Working for the Yankee dollar
In the third of a series on academic opportunities around the world, philosopher Simon Blackburn and physicist Michael Duff explain why they quit British universities to try their luck in the land of...
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Study your opportunities, they may not be to your liking
Jobs for the new millennium:Ayala Ochert continues our series with a hard look at the prospects for a research career After a PhD, what could be more logical than the progression to postdoctoral...
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Speaking Volumes: Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Speaking Volumes: Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Eighteen years old, and I should have been revising for my A levels. A trip to the bookshop left me with a 750-...
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Careers close to critical mass
Ayala Ochert examines disturbing evidence that shows that only a minority of scientists can look forward to a lifelong career in their chosen field What does a scientist's career have in common with...
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Sources of research funding
Each week we list funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD www.ahrb.ac.uk Small Grants in the Creative and...
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A bit of trench warfare
Time Team star Mick Aston is happy to help the public bone up on archaeology but he dug his heels in over submitting his work to the research assessment exercise. Harriet Swain reports It is about...
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The cloud men vs the counters
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Thinking of investing in biotech? Put your money on the 3.30 at Chepstow instead
Once upon a time the City couldn't get enough of those promising offspring of campus research - biotechnology companies. Now their stocks have taken a dive. James Norman explains why such a...
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$25 million way to go
Kristi Coale examines the landmark deal between Swiss biotech giant Novartis and the University of California, Berkeley that frees researchers from the need to pursue funding and gives the company...
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Glaxo turns to Cambridge in hunt for drugs
"It all came about as a result of Roger and me talking over a quiet gin and tonic one evening, chatting about the world, the universe, and chemistry." That is how Steven Ley, British Petroleum...