Trussing saves the joint
A radical metal jointing system which could halve the costs of building stadiums, public halls and hangars has completed its early development in Dundee University's department of civil engineering....
A radical metal jointing system which could halve the costs of building stadiums, public halls and hangars has completed its early development in Dundee University's department of civil engineering....
The soaring popularity of paragliding as a leisure pursuit and sport has prompted researchers to examine ways of making it safer. A growing number of people are taking to the skies with distinctive...
Bored with hi-fis and televisions in those uniform black casings? If a revolutionary invention by Warwick Manufacturing Group's Gordon Smith is taken up, hi-fi and television makers using plastic for...
Christina Preston on a ground-breaking in-service training alliance between teachers and industry. Most teachers have had few first degree opportunities to learn the skills or explore the...
Richard Poynder scours the Net for resources for the humanities and offers some good starting points. For those prepared to make the effort of seeking it out, there is a rich seam of material on the...
Bookshops have rows of computer books, usually very thick paperbacks with yellow spines. I do not know why yellow is so popular, but the books are thick because there's so much to learn about...
Stella Hughes reports on a Francophone project which aims to put African researchers on the World-Wide Web. For under-resourced, isolated researchers in Africa, the Internet holds the tantalising...
John Davies meets a champion of high-tech education for the Third World. Lalita Rajasingham would seem well qualified to talk, as she does, about thinking globally and acting locally. Her parents...
Move over Disneyland, education has the news. Stella Hughes reports on the futurist ambitions of France's learning theme park. Over the past few years a site near Poitiers has been steadily...
A newly-published 252-page book details the first results to emerge from United Kingdom universities participating in a Pounds 75 million educational technology programme. The Teaching and Learning...
To pit the United Kingdom's micromouse racers against their colleagues from North America and the Pacific rim is like putting a church mouse up against its cousins from the flour mill. Though the...
(Photograph) - The sinuous curve of Waterloo International railway station is one of the unexpected sights to be found in GeoInformation International's CD-Rom collection of high-resolution aerial...
Chemistry undergraduates at Heriot-Watt University are to use research-level computer software to improve their understanding of molecular shape and bonding. The CAChe quantum chemistry and molecular...
A London University teaching degree using computer conferencing on the Internet will be offered in Europe now that it has been proven by the first group of students completing the two-year course....
Heriot-Watt University has won a Pounds 30,000 Bank of Scotland award for an innovative computer-based project to help pupils improve their maths. The project, which has been running in three local...