Roman cemetery found
Remains dating back to the third century have been unearthed by builders working at the Caerleon campus of Gwent College of Higher Education. Caerleon, the Roman town of Isca, was home to 10,000...
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Net gain in salmon super race
Leading fish researchers are trying to calm panic over the news that a Scottish company may take part in trials on genetically engineered super-salmon. A number of environmental groups are alarmed...
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Bread like mummy's
A Cambridge scientist has used her loaf to bake bread just as the ancients did. Her recipe has included bits of old bread lying in museums, state-of-the-art imaging techniques and a talent for home...
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Oil pollution monitor wins top green prize
A team of scientists developing a device for monitoring oil pollution has won the top prize in a new environmental award scheme. The instrument makes use of the latest advances in opto-electronics...
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Waste changes in the pipeline
Domestic waste water is a complex and delicate subject, particularly the various items which find their way into sewers and are technically known as "gross sanitary solids". These include sanitary...
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White males fight the freeze
White male professors at Northern Arizona University have brought a lawsuit claiming they are the victims of sex equality run amok. George Rudenbusch, an associate professor of philosophy, claims he...
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Hangings provoke student unrest
Security was stepped up at Nigerian universities this week as students staged a two-day boycott of lectures in protest at the executions of novelist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight pro-Ogoni campaigners. In...
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Debt defaulters go walkabout
The inability of universities to keep track of individual students is becoming a problem for the Student Loans Company, a National Audit Office report reveals. The report, The Operations of the...
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Loans scheme heads for rocks
The Government's proposals for a new semi-privatised student loans scheme were roundly condemned from all sides and across the political spectrum this week. Members of the Conservative Higher...
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Bayrou resists student outcry
(Photograph) - French education minister Francois Bayrou renewed his promise of an emergency plan to redress funding inequalities between universities after the cabinet met on Wednesday to review...
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A spot of art searching
As a dead cow and its calf draw the crowds at the Turner Prize show, John Davies talks to this year's crop of art students to discover the sentiments behind the sensational. As crowds flock to the...
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Choices for the chosen
Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has a proposal for a divided faith. For decades Israeli society has been under threat from the Arab world. The danger of attack is part of daily life in the Holy Land. Yet the...
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Ring pull
Simon Targett reports on the growing popularity among students of an activity normally associated with battering brains rather than expanding them. It was a second round knockout. The Irish...
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Let me count the ways
Ragnar Lofstedt looks at how France might defend its nuclear tests. France's insistence on continuing its programme of nuclear testing in the South Pacific has met with worldwide condemnation. Its...
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This sceptical isle
Britain is dead, long live. . . what exactly? David Cannadine on the making of the "new British history" and its future During the election campaign for the European Parliament which was fought out...