Manchester Metropolitan university has been named the greenest university in the UK. Which other universities make the green list and which are bottom of the class?
In his latest weekly selection of pictures from northern England, Christopher Thomond visits Manchester's studentland and looks at technology old and new
The lively team from the Northern Quarter have just been in California for a conference designed to help the Feds keep up with 'DIY biologists' across the world. Asa Calow was one of them
Iceland's media haven, doubts about social media in the Arab Spring and culture secretary Ed Vaizey's fishy metaphors: Tom Midlane winds up Manchester's great ideas fest with his head abuzz