Maja's pioneer Phd
Staffordshire University student Maja Benson is the first woman at Staffordshire University to be awarded a PhD in engineering for pioneering work on mobile phone systems. She recently completed a...
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All human life is here
The Life Sciences Directory, containing the combined membership lists of five prestigious United Kingdom learned societies, is now available online (www.lifescientists.org) in a fully searchable...
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The wireless hunt
The Mobile Data Access System is a super search engine being developed by Ali Hurson and James Lin, researchers at Pennsylvania State University, to enable mobile phones and other portable devices to...
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Two-year degrees should be seen as stepping stones
Two-year degrees are back on the agenda. The appeal of this hardy perrenial is obvious: quick, cheap and designed to prepare large numbers for jobs at technician level where skill shortages often...
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Readers' reactions
...Philip Stott argued that rainforests are not essential to our survival on this planet Helen Woodward Sudent at the Open University Even if Philip Stott is partially right in saying we do not...
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Cutting Edge
Well into the next century, thousands will still be suffering Chernobyl's legacy: contaminated soil poisoning the food chain 'It was estimated that radiocaesium concentrations in fish in Lake...
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Guidelines are needed to help recruit experts
Sir Aaron Klug is right (page 15) that there are too few disinterested experts to supply the many scientific advisory committees. The scarcity is acute in biotechnology and information science but...
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Time for society to see old people in a new light
An ageing population is cause for celebration and should not be equated with helplessness, argues Brian Groombridge In the past few months the business press has agonised about the brain drain of...
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Why I......wanted to get little-known academics onto television
Henrietta Foster Producer of the Channel 4 series Millennium Minds, a discussion of some of the world's most influential thinkers When I was first asked to put together a proposal for Millennium...
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Costing the universe
Mars Polar Lander is this week's costly space failure. Yet John Zarnecki argues we should spend more on space research What is next in the following sequence - Mars '96, Cluster, Mars Climate Orbiter...
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The myth about media studies
Media studies is no cop-out subject, but one that attracts high-calibre students, says Ivor Gaber "Unfortunately, the myth has grown up that glamorous media jobs are there for the taking for those...
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Breaths of fresh air
As Oxford's latest spin-off seals a deal to exploit asthma research, Kam Patel looks at what business incubation units can do Asthma researchers at Oxford University have entered a deal with...
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Wellcome bias stirs up unions
Daresbury scientists are up in arms about the likely siting of a new X-ray source in Oxfordshire. Kam Patel reports The Wellcome Trust's case for locating the United Kingdom's new Pounds 175 million...
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Tipping depends on personality
To tip or not to tip - it is a question that often baffles and embarrasses the international traveller abroad. A new study, however, has found there are strong cultural clues that could guide the...
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Dickens knew his disorders
Charles Dickens was not only a brilliant social observer but was also well ahead of his time in his observations of neurological disorders. A study of the Victorian author's works has revealed...