Global warming to resite wheat crops
A new model of the effects of global warming predicts that wheat crop production could drop by a third in drought-prone countries and those of low latitude. But crop production could surge elsewhere...
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Putting heads together helps hearts
A multi-disciplinary approach to problems faced by heart surgeons is producing significant progress in the treatment of coronary disease, according to Gianni Angelini, professor of cardiothoracic...
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Trail of martyr's remains goes cold
榴莲视频 Office delays are preventing the final chapter being written in an archaeological quest to recover the head of Yagan, an assassinated Aboriginal leader. Southampton University postgraduate...
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Supercrete to rule world
A world of half-mile high skyscrapers has come closer with the development of a new super concrete at Dundee University. "Nothing can touch this material. It has amazing properties," said Rod Jones...
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Japanese build on teams
Workers at Japanese manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom are involved much more in the running and management of their plants than employees in British and other foreign-owned companies,...
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Nationalism's healthy state
"Ten years ago, everyone wanted to study Marxism. Today, it is nationalism and ethnicity." So said Brendan O'Leary, lecturer at the London School of Economics, at the fifth annual conference of the...
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Airports unpack suitcases with maths
A machine that can "unpack" suitcases electronically could soon be piloted in a British airport as a result of a breakthrough in X-ray imaging at Nottingham Trent University. Bags put in X-ray...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Huw Richards surveys the information currently available on top people's pay in institutions for 1993/94 In the notes which accompany the financial statement, balance sheet and auditors' report for...
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Wellcome switch to overseas research
Hopes that the Wellcome Trust would spend its newly boosted income on medical research in the United Kingdom have faltered with the publication of its new policy statement, in which it emphasises...
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Ceasefire gives Ulster a chance to improve city
An Institute of Urban Affairs for Belfast is to open as part of a Government plan to improve the city in the aftermath of the paramilitary ceasefires. Academics from the University of Ulster, where...
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Probe into why doctors drop out
The British Medical Association is drawing up plans to follow the careers of 500 medical students to discover why up to a quarter drop out of the profession three years after qualifying. One possible...
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BT cash source for small projects
Builders all carry mobile telephones, but they have reason to hate British Telecom. Peter Thompson, head of BT Education Services, says that when dealing with university requests for funds the...
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Alas poor Celt
(Photograph) - Alas poor Celt: Archaeologist Bob Watts holds a severed human skull, possibly a Celtic sacrifice, found around Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales. University of Bradford staff are...
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Lords told of science career obstacles
Many young academic scientists are being denied the career security necessary to help them become established, the Medical Research Council told the Lords this week. Sir Dai Rees, MRC chief executive...
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Parliament to debate 16 to 19s
The National Commission on Education's report on reforming post-school learning is to be debated at a major parliamentary inquiry into 16 to 19 provision. The report, Learning to Succeed After 16*, (...