It may be supremely ugly with big pop eyes, but the oyster toadfish is proving the darling of marine biologists, who hope its superfast muscle will offer new clues for the treatment of human heart...
An international collaboration of astronomers is shining new light on the interior of stars. We see only the light that escapes from their outermost layers. We have learnt quite a lot about the birth...
If the thought of statistics leaves you cold, John Holcomb may be able to help. He prefers an everyday approach to the subject. Jennifer is a typical introductory statistics student. She is 20, a...
Ghigi, a student at De Montfort University, has won the Lycra Soft Young Designer of the Year Award for her underwear designs and a first-class degree in contour fashion. Ghigi is from Italy, but...
The University of Greenwich hopes to maintain levels of research income at its troubled Natural Resources Institute despite cutting staff levels by half. Projected income for the NRI next year is £12...
India has sacked the head of its social science council because he invited Pakistani intellectuals to a seminar on India-Pakistan relations on the eve of last week's summit between prime minister...
The universities that secured the highest funding from a government science investment fund have described their success as a poisoned chalice - because they have to raise a quarter of the cash. Sir...
SA institutions are running on red ink Three of South Africa’s historically black universities have combined overdrafts of R193 million (£16 million), education minister Kader Asmal said....
Scotland drives e-science initiative Edinburgh and Glasgow universities are to collaborate in a National E-Science Centre. It is the first initiative in the government’s £98 million e-...
Independent Dying Bangladeshis have been granted legal aid to sue British scientists in London this autumn for failing to discover dangerous levels of arsenic during a survey of their country's...
'Fragrant Mary' seeks solar solace Mary Archer today made her first public appearance since her husband was jailed, at a summer school on solar energy at the University of Strathclyde. Lady Archer, a...
China releases jailed scholars Two United States-based scholars of Chinese origin, Gao Zhan and Qin Guangguang, have been released on medical grounds by China, 36 hours after they had been convicted...
Daily Telegraph Paul Maxwell Robinson, a law librarian at University College London, was jailed for a year yesterday after a Swedish court found him guilty of violent rioting at the European Union...
Nigerian delegation refused visas The 78-member Nigerian delegation to this week’s Education International congress is stranded in Johannesburg because the Nigerian Embassy in South Africa has...
Most trainee teachers are white females Universities have no chance of redressing gender or ethnic imbalances among trainee teachers because they have too little choice about who to take, according...