Scientists fail to extract fossil DNA
Jurassic Park has been re-consigned to the fantasy world by research casting doubt on scientific claims to have isolated ancient genetic material from fossils. Scientists at the Natural History...
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French crayfish could boost British stocks
Recent research may pave the way for white-clawed crayfish to join the list of British imports from France - not, like most, destined for our culinary world but for our natural one. Severe declines...
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Joint plan for quieter aircraft
A Pounds 3 million research project is coming to the end of its three-year quest to find ways to reduce the noise generated by aircraft. At least one potential solution has been unearthed by experts...
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Project aims for simultaneous computing
VIRTUAL teamwork may soon be a working reality, thanks to a project underway in St Andrews University's computing division. Researchers there are developing a computer system which will allow users...
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Middleton measures up
Shakespeare's debt to his junior colleague Thomas Middleton has not yet been fully acknowledged, according to research from Birmingham University. Not only did Middleton write significant parts of...
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Spanish battle over Elche site
THE BATTLE over the creation of a new university in south-western Spain is intensifying as the University of Alicante and the socialist opposition have both decided to launch appeals against the...
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Belarus turns on Soros
THE SOROS Foundation of Belarus has been fined US$3 million for alleged tax offences following an interim report on its activities from tax inspectors commissioned by the Belarusian Security Council...
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Teachers 'upgraded'
MORE THAN 10,000 teachers with secondary school qualifications are working full-time in higher education, the French education ministry has disclosed. A survey published by the ministry's assessment...
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Right sweeps to power in Italy
FOR THE first time in 30 years, candidates of the political right swept to victory in elections for student councils in many Italian universities, marking the end of a long-standing predominance of...
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Erik the Red is coming home
A DANISH fisheries inspection vessel arrives in Reykjavik next week with 15 parcels of 300 priceless documents on board - the final consignment from Copenhagen University of the ancient Icelandic...
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Michigan aids shattered library
MORE than 20 years ago Robert Donia, then a graduate student, visited Sarajevo for the first time and spent most of his time in the attractive but cramped old parliament building known as the...
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Law pioneer sues over sacking
AN ACADEMIC at the centre of a row in Hong Kong City University's law faculty plans to sue for wrongful dismissal after being ousted from the department last month. Derek Roebuck, a founder of the...
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Police-state fear grips campuses
A JURY in Washington State recently awarded more than $1 million to a student who accused his college of passing on unverified allegations of rape. The alleged victim, the accused's ex-girlfriend,...
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Rape case threat to colleges
A STUDENT is suing her college after alleging that she was raped by the father of a family she was staying with while studying in Japan. Erika Eisenberg's lawsuit against Earlham College in Indiana...
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Women win more top posts
AUSTRALIA has three times as many women vice chancellors as it did a year ago. Up until 1987, every vice chancellor in Australia was a male - and had been since the University of Sydney was founded...