'Magic cream' dispenses with jabs
Painful and frightening injections could become a thing of the past thanks to an innovative "magic cream" created by researchers at Queen's University, Belfast. The international healthcare company...
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Swansea plans for jewels of the Nile
A 3,000-year-old wooden coffin, built for a female musician from Thebes, lies in a dusty storage box, locked away in Swansea University. Alongside it is a limestone offering table, inscribed with...
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Spray to catch flu in nose
A new nasal spray that could help conquer influenza is being developed at Cardiff University's Common Cold and Nasal Research Centre, writes Iola Smith. The spray prevents flu viruses from clinging...
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Yankee doodle dandy
(Photograph) - Yankee doodle dandy: Students at the Washington and Lee University mock Republican convention cheer winning candidate 'Bob Dole' after he was elected as the nominee for president. The...
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Male pill only matter of time
The male contraceptive pill could be less than ten years away, claim scientists at Manchester University. Fred Wu, senior lecturer in medicine, said his research confirmed that sperm production could...
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The <i> g </i> whizz in IQ
The Bell Curve Debate - The Bell Curve Wars
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Should China go Roman?
Scripts and Literacy
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A bag of allsorts for all sorts
English Words
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What a load of cratylisme
Mimologics
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Commonplace sycophancy
Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric
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Don't cite it, see it
Reframing the Renaissance
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a man who became famous for three minutes: "Whether or not the final laws of nature are discovered in our lifetime, it is a great thing for us to carry on the...
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More than the sum of its particles
Twentieth Century Physics
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Arrow-minded views
The Nature of Space and Time
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The macramé universe
Knots and Quantum Gravity