Sage wisdom
For centuries European folklore has said that sage improves the memory. Now clinical trials are to get under way to test this and to find out if sage could be used in the treatment of illnesses such...
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Hairy jobs for the bold
As the world gets smaller and science continues to push back the frontiers, scientists find themselves working in ever greater extremes. As researchers in Montserrat have discovered, being in the...
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Treatment for ageing is possible
DRUGS to slow down the ageing process could be available within 20 years, according to University of Sunderland researchers. Members of the university's molecular gerontology team believe they are on...
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Grim Reaper calls earlier on poor homes
FACT: The risk of premature death increases significantly for people living in a rented home without a car. Reason: Unknown. Assumptions that car and home ownership are merely markers of middle-class...
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Men bury grief for the sake of their partner
FEW MEN feel able to grieve properly following a miscarriage, scientists at Teesside University have found in one of the first studies of the subject. John Puddifoot and Martin Johnson, who...
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Trees tackle warming
SUSSEX University scientists are putting trees to the ultimate test in a bid to discover whether they can offer a solution to global warming. Working with six other institutions from Europe, the...
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Disabled back football
DISABLED football fans are getting a better deal from the game because of improvements to grounds over the past five years, researchers have found. A survey of 1,200 supporters with disabilities,...
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Musical therapy
A NEW musical instrument may help people with special needs express themselves in mucic and dance. Researchers at Reading University believe. The "Sound=Space" system uses sensors to pick up...
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Property rights fight
France's national audit office has criticised the system of rewarding researchers for dis- coveries made in public research institutes. After investigations in four main institutes including the...
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Consumers file complaint about exams
Italy's association of consumer groups has filed an official complaint against La Sapienza University in Rome over irregularities in the running of exams. The complaint, made to the Rome prosecutor's...
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Row over work placements
FRENCH university presidents are coming under pressure from student unions to play a more active role in plans for work placements leading to a degree credit. Under France's previous government the...
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Call for a science fraud squad
The president of the German research fund DFG is calling for an international commission to be set up to protect the scientific community from fraud. Wolfgang Fruhwald was responding to the worst...
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Doctors in trouble as Danes impose quota
A DISPUTE which threatened an agreement on student mobility between the Nordic nations days before it became effective has been defused - but only until the end of the year. Norway's minister of...
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Cash glitch solved
THE Chinese government has set up a national fund to support the publication of academic works in the natural sciences and technology, writes Geoff Scott. Owing to funding problems China has had...
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Kenya turns to private market
KENYA's government is to grant charters to nine private universities on condition that they help meet the country's need for degree courses in science and technology. The private universities will be...