Ash cloud root of Dark Ages
A pall of ice clouds could have ringed the globe following the colossal eruption of an Indonesian volcano, blamed by some for triggering the Dark Ages. Computer simulations have added weight to...
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Cutting edge: Colin Barr
Headline writers want only black and white, but research results come in shades of grey. In the past couple of days, the results of Countryside Survey 2000 will have hit (or missed) the newspaper...
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Opening a Pandora's Box of top research
The new head of Australian science organisation Csiro is keen to discover untapped brilliance, writes Julia Hinde. Having helped secure funding for scientific research in post-apartheid South Africa...
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French triple funds for 'mad cow' research
In response to the French public's consternation over rising numbers of cattle infected by BSE, research minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg has announced a tripling of the budget for research into...
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Russia forms entente cordiale with Europe
An accord on scientific and technological cooperation has been signed by the EU and Russia. The agreement paves the way for the exchange of information and researchers, as well as allowing free...
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Window on science for all EU citizens
Bionet, an electronic network linking science museums in the EU, is to be launched next year. Funded by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research, it willcreate a digital exhibition...
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Call for monitoring of stem cell research
A specialist group formed to advise the European Commission on ethical issues has called for staged ethical assessments during EU-funded research on stem cells. The European Group on Ethics in...
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Group to coordinate studies of BSE and CJD
A coordinating group is to be set up by the EU to link research teams across the continent that are investigating the cause and effect of BSE and its human form, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...
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High bids will boost medical courses
Bids from English universities for new medical places could lead to the opening of two medical schools and to a rapid expansion of four-year graduate-entry medical degrees. The universities of York...
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Medical and nursing students
Medical and nursing students should study complementary and alternative medicine (Cam), according the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, writes Caroline Davis. Lord Walton's sub-...
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Singapore fails to stump up promised cash
One of the richest members of the Commonwealth has failed to contribute to a flagship distance-learning project for the 12th year. The Singapore delegation left the Commonwealth Ministers' Education...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Scientists at the Max Delbruk Centre in Berlin and Infogen, a German biotechnology company, have announced that they have identified one gene that is responsible for the phenomenon of...
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Latest UK news
Blunkett calls for employer-union talks David Blunkett has called on university employers to sit down with the trade unions to negotiate pay. The education secretary made his plea at the Association...
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Latest international news
Ministers promote student mobility Commonwealth education ministers have put academic exchanges and student mobility at the heart of a seven-point action plan. The 54 member states, meeting...
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Latest enterprise news
British university teams won four of the ten prizes in the European software competition, EASA2000 in Rotterdam this week. Groups from the universities of Bath, Cambridge, Huddersfield and the Open...