Warm blast from past
NORTH-EAST Europe was warmer 6,000 years ago than it is today, according to findings from a database of the pollen found in fossils. With funding from the European Commission, data was collected...
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Toxic shock
POISONS in the environment may eventually lead to backwards evolution of the human brain, according the author of a new study into global environmental change. Christopher Williams, lecturer in...
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Pilot project
MANAGERS involved in making the design of jet engines more efficient will be able to "pilot" a virtual company through a simulator to predict the outcome of making different decisions. Researchers...
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Myth that travels
Popular belief that improved public transport and more cycling will solve traffic congestion, air pollution and accidents is a myth, says John Wotton of Southampton University's transport research...
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Language lecturers bow to pressure
EIGHT foreign language lecturers at the University of Verona have caved in to the university authorities after a ten-year battle and accepted downgrading to language assistant status. Six had...
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Robots kick off World Cup
ADVANCED robotics and artificial intelligence will meet the challenges of international soccer with Cybermondial, the World Cup of Robot Footballers in Paris later this month. Some 60 teams of...
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Kosovo crisis hits takeover
THE DEADLINE for Albanian-speaking students in the Serb province of Kosovo to return to the state university system has been overtaken by the latest outbreak of civil unrest and allegations of ethnic...
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Swiss vote swings against ban on genetic research
Swiss academics and researchers breathed a sigh of relief this week after the country's citizens voted by two to one to reject severe restrictions to genetic engineering. A referendum on whether to...
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University of Perugia in Italy
(Photograph) - Students from the University of Perugia in Italy celebrate after winning $100,000 in the Digital Signal Processing Solutions Challenge, a worldwide digital design competition sponsored...
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New image
Surrey Institute of Art and Design has bought ten Softimage DS video editing systems and is the first authorised training centre for the software, which shipped in January. The hardware is Intergraph...
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Hypertext seduction and pleasures of rummage
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MATHEMATICS ON CD-ROM. Edited by Michael Hazelwinkel. Kluwer Academic Publishers+31 78 639 2392. Single user Pounds 144.00+VAT, network Pounds 1,095.00+VAT Multiplatform CD (Windows...
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Strategic move
The Joint Information Systems Committee has adopted a "show house" plan to encourage institutions to develop information strategies. JISC is offering cash for institutions that create a half-time...
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Star winner
Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, received the Franklin Institute's $250,000 Bower Award at an event sponsored by SCT, the Pennsylvania-based university administration software company that...
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Managing OK
Southampton University spinoff Multicosm is the fifth company to receive investment from Amadeus, the venture capital fund whose backers include Microsoft and Reuters. 3i and Natwest have also...
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Space talk
Commonwealth of Learning's Connections newsletter has a supplement on educational technology, EdTech News. The first issue lists geostationary and low earth orbit satellite projects. The WorldSpace...