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Students in national walkout over cuts
Wednesday 14 March 2012
University students staged a national walkout today to protest against the Government's plans for higher education.
Lorries are main threat to cyclists
Tuesday 06 March 2012
Lorries accounted for one in five crashes involving cyclists, a study of 265 road collisions in London found.
Government 'may sanction chemical incapacitant use on rioters', scientists fear
Tuesday 07 February 2012
Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to sanction the development of chemical incapacitants for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons.
Early test to detect autism
Friday 27 January 2012
Autism can be detected in six-month-old babies by measuring their brain activity, say scientists.
Joan Smith: Strong religious belief is no excuse for intimidation
Sunday 22 January 2012
It's been a dreadful week for free speech. A meeting at a prestigious London college had to be abandoned on Monday evening when members of the audience were filmed and threatened by an Islamic extremist. Then the president of a student society at another London college was forced to resign after a Muslim organisation called for a ban on a joky image of the Prophet Mohammed. Finally, on Friday, the author Sir Salman Rushdie cancelled an appearance at India's largest literary festival, saying he feared an assassination attempt after protests by Muslim clerics.
Man threatens students at debate
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Students attending a debate about sharia law were told they would be "hunted down and killed" by a man who burst into their lecture theatre and filmed them on his phone.
UK scientists find 'lost' Charles Darwin fossils
Tuesday 17 January 2012
British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.
Aspirin a day may not be so good for heart
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Taking aspirin every day may not be worth the risk for those with no history of heart problems, a major study has concluded.
The penny finally drops. Pay people properly and you will get better results
Sunday 01 January 2012
A decade of hard graft by Living Wage campaigners has forced employers to recognise that higher salaries boost productivity
Birth defects more common than thought
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Five thousand more babies with birth defects are born each year in England and Wales than previously thought, researchers say.
Record number eligible for clearing
Thursday 18 August 2011
A record number of students are eligible for clearing compared to the same time last year.
Why does LSE academic Satoshi Kanazawa seem to hate women and black people?
Friday 20 May 2011
The ideas advanced by Social Darwinism and eugenics remain influential today in Japanese intellectual life and popular culture.
Government setback on tuition fees
Tuesday 08 March 2011
The government's hopes of limiting £9,000-a-year tuition fees to only a handful of universities receive a setback today.
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