Genius failed to find human touch
The Man who Found the Missing Link
The Man who Found the Missing Link
How a love for old boats led to the Red Sea coast of Egypt, and the excavation of one of the ancient world's major trading centres. For someone who has always been obsessed with old boats, a career...
Evidence suggests that man must have travelled by boat as early as 40,000BC, but the oldest known craft dates from just 8000BC. Sean McGrail reports. It is a little-known fact that there were seamen...
Kabul University is beginning the difficult task of rebuilding after being destroyed, literally and figuratively, by decades of war, despite a lack of basic infrastructure, including water,...
Higher education in Sri Lanka would benefit from a more systematic partnership with government, rather than the current dependence on links among individuals, the country's ambassador to France has...
Brussels, 11 April 2002 Speaking to a Brussels audience on 10 April, President of the German research organisation the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Hans-Jürgen...
Australia's federal government plans to change immigration rules to make it easier for foreign students to remain after completing their studies as part of an effort to address a growing brain drain...
The Tarim Mummies
A new submarine trans-Pacific cable network, capable of carrying 40 gigabits a second, will soon give Australian academics faster access to colleagues in North America. The Southern Cross Cable...
Humans do not develop by buying mobile phones and BMWs, argues Thai environmentalist Sulak Sivaraksa, who believes a sustainable future requires a little bit of spiritual enlightenment. Chris Bunting...
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
The Generalissimo's Son
Financial Times Bristol and Bath are to be the first universities in the UK to form a joint venture science park. Stefan Wagstyl says that Akademgorodok, the campus town housing Russia's scientific...
PHAROAHS AND THE FLEA The true curse of the pharaohs has been identified among remains left by Tutankhamun's tomb workers and guards - fleas. The excavation of a 3,300-year-old village in the...
The first international conference for heads of teacher-training institutions has laid the foundations for setting up a worldwide teacher-training network. The three-day Paris conference, "Priorities...