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RRS Boaty McBoatface Last week NERC launched a competition to name its new £200m research ship, due for completion in 2019. 'Shackleton. Endeavour. Falcon. These are just some of the names suggested for the UK's next world-class polar research ship as part of a campaign launched today for the public to put forward names for the state-of-the-art vessel to be built in the North West of

The Researchfish system is used to collect information on the outputs, outcomes and impacts that have arisen from Research Council-funded research. It tracks over 90,000 awards worth more than £40 Billion, and is used by over 63,000 researchers who have produced in excess of 1 million output reports to date.  Submitting data on such a wealth of projects is no easy task, and universities across

University of Edinburgh, Bromley After the revelation that 97.6% of the senior civil servants involved in the Northern Powerhouse project were based in London, Fundermentals can exclusively reveal that all of the so called 'Scottish' universities are actually located in a retail park in Bromley. The shocking revelation was the result of a Freedom of Information request by Fundermentals.

Martha had finally found a use for the pasta maker they'd been given for their wedding Last year I wrote a column in response to a letter from a group of eminent academics bemoaning the current state of peer review. “Support for research that might lead to major new scientific discoveries is virtually forbidden nowadays,” the letter claimed, “and science is in serious danger of stagnating.”

Boris and Jo: Blond on Blond With just three and a half months to go until the EU referendum, the debate on whether to stay or go is already at fever pitch. In TV studios and pubs across the land ill-informed but passionate views are being swapped, and the focus swings from immigration, to trade, and back to immigration again. One of the key question is the European Union's position on the