'Baby Earth in the making' sighted
Astronomers using a British telescope have sighted "a baby Earth in the making" orbiting a nearby star. "This is going to make an Earth-type planet," said Helen Walker of the Rutherford Appleton...
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Electric car gets a push from petrol
Motorists could drive around the world on just one gallon of petrol, according to researchers at the University of Keele. Kevin Kendall and his colleagues have developed a clean, efficient electric...
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'Cyclone' device cleans diesel exhaust
Inspired by the Dyson vacuum cleaner, students at the University of Hull have designed a device that removes tiny soot particles from diesel exhausts. The device relies on a "cyclone" to separate the...
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Road management can cool queues
Traffic jams could be eased if patterns of their formation were addressed by road management programmes, say researchers at the Middlesex University Business School. Jams develop according to one of...
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Take a deep breath for a shot of immunity
Injections for immunisation, dreaded by many, may soon be replaced by inhalers or nasal sprays, according to researchers at Aston University. Oya Alpar, senior lecturer at Aston's school of life and...
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Women and poker
The calculation of the percentage of female professors at Keele University is incorrect. In 1995-96, we had 13 female professors. In 1996-97 there were 14. This represents 15.3 per cent of the...
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Groovy butterfly wings for better bank notes
The next generation of bank notes could make use of a security feature based on a novel characteristic of butterfly wings - a surface covered by a microscopic set of grooves that are finer than the...
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Scottish team to assess housing needs
Housing experts at Dundee and St Andrews universities have won a Pounds 1 million contract for research that will throw light on pressing housing issues. The three-year CORE contract (Continuous...
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Parties clash over ethnic university
THE MAIN political party representing Romania's Hungarian minority has renewed its attempt to re-establish a Hungarian-language university in Transylvania. But the move has met with opposition at...
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Bavaria blocks eternal student
BAVARIA has passed a sweeping reform of higher education to make universities more competitive and put a stronger emphasis on quality and achievement. The German state's reform, which will come into...
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Women's way with words
The Academie Francaise, guardian of the French language, is threatening a constitutional challenge to ministerial orders to feminise education jobs and titles. In a circular that takes effect this...
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Unions take on Italy's baroni
THE Italian national confederation of trade unions has called for radical reforms in the way academics are employed. Possibly for the first time in Italian history, the unions are also demanding cuts...
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Cloistered women seek cash
INDIA's University Grants Commission is backing a plea for full state financial support from a unique women's educational institute in isolated Rajasthan, where a 60-year-old policy of cloistered...
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Right-winger in unity call
AN extreme rightwing religious student has been elected head of Bar-Ilan University's student union more than two years after the assassination of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by one...
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Union takes hard line on 'laughable' claim
Australian academics are demanding a 19 per cent wage rise, a maximum 36-hour week and at least 20 weeks a year free from class contact with students - not counting annual leave and public holidays....