Just as we were going to press, news emerged that the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), has decided to allocate universities an extra £1,100 per postgraduate student. The funding increase will only affect those postgraduate students not taking the lowest costing and humanities subjects. Tedious acronyms aside, this is a pretty interesting development […]

David Cemeron has appointed Dame Rothwell to co-chair the Council for Science and Technology

London 2012 Olympians to face even more comprehensive drugs testing to catch out the cheats

RAG raised £500 by organizing a themed night at the SU Bar on the opening night of the superbowl

Last week saw the stock market debut of Facebook, whose initial public offering (IPO) has been surrounded by much hype. Investors purchasing Facebook’s shares will be seeking big returns for what are expected to be fairly long term investments, as is evident with Facebook’s earliest investors such as Accel Partners (who, having invested $12.7m in […]

Check your broadband speed, as things are not quite as good as expected

Early success in trials of vaccine for disease which kills one million people a year

Inside the world of Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

COD breaks sales records again and again

Increased number of neurons discovered to be common in autistic brains

University goes ape as court issues freedom of information order

Claims we should accept that some species are too dire to save gain support

Be thankful if your brain has a silver lining of its own

Online porn gets a saucy makeover

Government funding cuts compels Manchester Museum of Science and Industry into possible merger

New nuclear facility opened and Rutherford would be proud

Former soldier turned PhD student creates app for burn victims

Computer scientists in Manchester have developed innovative software designed to aid rescue efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters.

The Civil and Construction Society accidentally sold many students hoodies containing a misprint

The ‘father of computer science’ may soon be officially pardoned following a motion submitted to parliament by John Leech, MP