EGEE becomes world largest scientific grid
Brussels, 04 Oct 2006 The EU funded 'enabling Grids for e-science' (EGEE) project is processing more than 30,000 computing jobs a day - over a million a month - making it the world's largest...
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Young hit the hardest by Japanese funding shift
Japan's Government wants higher education to be more commercially focused, but pursuit of that goal is putting a strain on academics and darkening career prospects for young researchers. Nobuko Hara...
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Bids invited for mutual gain
As India and the UK strengthen research links through a government-backed strategy, individual universities are really talking business. Olga Wojtas reports Academics and researchers across India and...
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Moscow
A Russian arms control researcher jailed in April for 15 years for spying should be released pending a retrial that meets international standards of fairness, according to human rights groups. "Igor...
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Human misery's growth industry
The Bottom Billion
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German laboratory to map Neanderthal genome
Brussels, 25 Jul 2006 A team of German and US researchers has announced plans to decipher the genetic coding of our closest relative, the Neanderthal, within the next two years. If successful, the...
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US report confirms rise of Asian research
Brussels, Jul 2005 A new report published in the US has underlined Asia's strengthening global position in research, revealing that the region is catching up with Europe and the US in terms of...
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Iron rice bowl left behind in race to market
China's Economic Transformation. Second Edition
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'It is absurd for academics to be financially squeezed'
As Tom Cannon adds dean of Buckingham Business School to his sizeable CV, he hails an age of knowledge Tom Cannon is a busy man. As well as holding visiting chair positions at universities in the UK...
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Sceptics blinded by Marxist idols and ideology
Communism's allure saw otherwise intelligent members of the academy jettisoning reason, argues Robert Service Communism had a worldwide impact on intellectuals after the October Revolution of 1917 -...
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Invaluable resource or stolen property?
The repatriation of the remains of 17 Tasmanian Aborigines by the Natural History Museum highlights an unresolved conflict between scientific and cultural obligations. Julia Hinde reports In May this...
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Not as old as you look
The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey - The Chosen Species - Seven Million Years
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On her majesty's secret disservice
To combat terror, intelligence services need good research. But US calls to help with a situation in the Sahara-Sahel led Jeremy Keenan to believe academics were being used to support illegal and...
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Why revel in birth of imperial monster?
Celebrating 'America's 400th Birthday' ignores the genocide of the continent's native people, argues Taiaiake Alfred "America's 400th Birthday", the year-long staging of the mythologies of...