From today's UK papers

FINANCIAL TIMES

MPs' calls for universities to receive greater financial rewards for taking students from poor areas are likely to be rebuffed by the government.

A Japanese law has opened the way for academics to set up companies without giving up their jobs.

DAILY MAIL

We could double the time that life can survive on Earth by shifting the planet into a new orbit, according to scientists at Nasa, the University of California and the University of Michigan.

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Neil Gregor says that admissions tutors have been accused of displaying prejudice against both independent and state schools, but schools of all types could do more to help pupils succeed with their applications.

THE TIMES

The FBI is hunting a possible serial killer on the campus of Gallaudet University in Washington DC, one of the world's leading universities for the deaf.

Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, argues that the House of Commons education select committee has bungled the Laura Spence inquiry.

MISCELLANY

Scientists from France, Britain and Kenya unveiled their discovery of what is believed to be the oldest fossilised remains of a hominid. ( Guardian , Independent )