Source: BBC News
Brain scans may be able to reveal which people are at genetic risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), researchers say. Individuals with OCD and their close relatives have distinctive patterns in their brain structure, a team at Cambridge University found.
Source: The Times
The UK boasts four of the top ten universities in the world, according to league tables published in The Times Higher Education Supplement today.
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An authoritative new report by Policy Exchange entitled 'The Hijacking of British Islam: How extremist literature is subverting Britain's mosques', reveals the worrying extent of extremist penetration of mosques and other key institutions of the British Muslim community.
Source: The Economist
IN THE cause of equal rights, feminists have had much to complain about. But one striking piece of inequality has been conveniently overlooked: lifespan. In this area, women have the upper hand. All round the world, they live longer than men.
Source: BBC News
Cambridge dons have expressed concern over a report that some students are working as prostitutes. Cambridge University's student newspaper Varsity quotes a female student who says she earned money as a call girl in her first year.
Source: PhysOrg.com
A new mathematical analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centre has been published by a Cambridge University academic, with results that challenge conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11th attacks.
Source: BBC News
A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken. They were acquired using a new "adaptive optics" system which sharpens pictures taken from the Mount Palomar Observatory in California.
Source: frontpagemagazine.com
U.K. libel laws and courts have been among Saudi Arabia's most successful tools to veil its Islamic proselytization and terrorist funding. The Saudi operator is billionaire Khalid Bin Mahfouz, who has sued or threatened to sue some 36 U.S. and U.K.
Source: nysun.com
Cambridge University Press has agreed to destroy all unsold copies of a 2006 book by two American authors, "Alms for Jihad," following a libel action brought against it in England, the latest development in what critics say is an effort by Saudis to quash discussion of their alle …
Source: Science Business
It used to be that university professors set out to produce clones of themselves, more men (sic) who would go on to do research in a university. This has changed a lot in recent years, perhaps because more profs really that there is life elsewhere.
Source: The New York Times
The Darwin Correspondence Project put 5,000 letters to and from the father of evolution online last week. Now the public can track the evolution of the eponymous evolutionist.
Source: Telegraph
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a new generation of drugs that make people more intelligent. But they are precisely the kind of mind-altering substances that students and businessman could be taking in the future to pass exams and boost work performance.
Source: ansa.it
LONDON (ANSA) - Forget sea, sex, sand and sensational cooking - Italians are the least happy people in Europe, according to a surprising new poll.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
British universities have spent £10m in a decade on animal experiments into the effects of illegal drugs, according to activists who say it is cruel because such drugs are "luxury" items people use by choice.
Source: news.mongabay.com
Scientists have discovered a bizarre, half-billion-year old creature with long, curved spines, armored plates, and a hard shell that protected it from predators.
Source: PhysOrg.com
An international team of scientists has discovered seven -- and perhaps eight -- dwarf galaxies orbiting Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Source: BBC News
Scientists have found a way to remove disease-causing proteins from infected animal blood, which they hope may fight the human form of mad cow disease.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The cooling power of the 21st century fridge will come from a 19th century discovery - and it promises to cut energy consumption by 40% and save the ozone layer.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
It's almost a 'traditional' BWB, but with a design optimised for noise reduction. A radical new concept for a mid size passenger plane, the Silent Jet would offer an ability to operate for longer hours and dramatically reduced environmental impact.
Source: the Mail online
A leading scholar sparked a furious row yesterday after she claimed to have 'wistful nostalgia' for the days when female students were regularly groped and harassed by older male dons.