science wire

More than half of Australia's glaucoma cases remain undiagnosed according to University of Sydney Professor of Ophthalmology, Paul Healey.

A collection of seven-minute talks, in which eminent researchers from the arts and humanities explain both why their subjects matter, and how their future is threatened by current higher education reforms, is being released online.

Films that visualise a future where human reproduction is controlled, prevented, modified or simply made impossible are to be examined during Cambridge Science Festival.

A 350-year-old notebook which describes the execution of innocent women for consorting with the Devil, has been published online by The University of Manchester's John Rylands Library.

A study by a University of Manchester historian has cast doubt on the widespread belief that the Victorians and Edwardians were prudes who had few sexual freedoms.

A geographical map depicting landowners' loyalties to the restored King Charles II after the English Civil War has shown that contrary to popular opinion, peace was not assured in the 1660s, long after the war had ended in 1651.

PA 68/11 Sexuality and religion are generally considered uncomfortable bedfellows. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers from Nottingham have carried out a detailed study around these issues and how they affect and influence the lives of British 18 to 25 year olds.

The bones of people who died up to a hundred years ago are being used in the development of new treatments for chronic back pain for the first time.

Two very different faces of wartime Plymouth will be recounted by local historians during a public event marking the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.

Growth in the import of luxury goods and increasingly close ties with European markets were features of the Irish economy five hundred years ago, according to new evidence unearthed by a historian at the University of Bristol. Susan Flavin , a PhD student in the Department of Historical Studies , studied Bristol customs accounts and port books to investigate the range of commodities that were imported into Ireland from Bristol towards the end of the sixteenth century.

Art 22 Feb 11 'Burton Beach', drawn from pictures of Burton Bradstock in Dorset. Rachel said: 'I stood studying the waves for quite a long time.

Laurie Anderson (BC'69, SOA'72, HON'05) received her MFA in sculpture from Columbia in 1972, but went on to establish herself as a boundary-crossing artist whose works merge music and performance in new experimental combinations.

The quintessentially English author Chaucer is more French than most of us realise, argues Ardis Butterfield (UCL English) in her awardwinning book The Familiar Enemy (Oxford University Press).

How does a society move forward in the aftermath of genocide and massive human rights violations? How does it balance the need for justice against its need to move on? A discussion of the difficult issues of transitional justice.

Plans to develop a new teaching resource using a unique collection of films made in India during the final decades of British rule have been announced by the University of Cambridge.

PA 45/11 Test Tube — an award winning video project which goes behind the scenes in the world of science — has just posted its 300th video — http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com

A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission.

Timothy Snyder, whose widely-acclaimed book Bloodlands offers a synthetic history of Nazi and Soviet mass killings before and during World War II, will examine their legacy in a free, public lecture this week.

The word "democracy" needs a clearer definition to deal with the events in Egypt, says Middle East historian Joel Beinin.

A new book by a Cambridge academic explores how some of our greatest writers have drawn on the Devil for inspiration.

Art 08 Feb 11 The ethics of spying and the morality of the financial crisis are among research topics a £1.9m endowment will allow Oxford University's theological experts to pursue.

Free will and brain determinism, the idea that cognition is determined by prior events, are to be the topic of an upcoming lecture at the University of Cambridge's Faraday Institute.

As a fierce advocate for social justice, Rosa Parks labored on behalf of black women raped by white men long before she stood up to white supremacy by defiantly sitting down on a segregated bus 60 years ago.

A tour through Graham Greene's Brighton The latest film adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel Brighton Rock sets the story in the 1960s Brighton of Mods and Rockers, while the seafront scenes were actually filmed in nearby Eastbourne.

The University of Sydney has been rated at or above world standard in all 24 of the broad discipline areas in which it was rated in the 2010 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation program. Details of the ERA results were released today by the Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr.

A million-pound donation from Worldwide Support for Development will establish a Chair of Japanese Chinese Relations.