Lillian Passmore Donovan Scholarship 2011 The Scholarship has been implemented to recognise the contributions of Lillian Passmore Donovan as an Indigenous. See original here: Lillian Passmore Donovan Scholarship 2011 : Scholarship Positions …

The discovery of DNA is one of the most important events in the history of mankind, allowing us to access the program that writes what we are – but what's the point in perfecting ourselves while the planet dies around us?  That's the question asked by Dr Craig Venter, and he believes he has the answer. Venter is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research. Genomics, the science and practice of controlling DNA, means we [...]

The year is 2010 and the Lovell Radio Telescope – the flagship of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics in Manchester, UK-  picks up a signal that's not a pulsar, but instead, finally, is a true signal from a civilization in a remote edge of the Milky Way. If Stuart Lowe -a member of the ESA's Planck spacecraft's Core Team who runs a radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank- has his way the world will know of the discovery in realtime along with the Jodrell Bank team. View original [...]

Your projects – from storytelling to learning to play instruments – show that creative teaching is alive and well The sunshine seems to have brought out the creativity in everyone in the past week or so, and we have plenty of good projects to report on. The Swinton high school in Salford, Manchester, recently celebrated World Fairtrade Day (and broke the monotony of exams) by teaching its geography pupils – who were learning about Fairtrade in Brazil – to play samba instruments. You can [...]