Science

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 subject tables will be revealed over six weeks

Japanese and Canadian professors awarded prize for their work on ‘nature’s most elusive elementary particles’

Money to be set aside for ‘blue skies’ fundamental research

China’s long wait for a home-grown Nobel prize in science is now over, but concerns over its university culture remain, says David Matthews

Scientists from Japan, China and Ireland awarded for their work tackling parasitic diseases

Partnership with Cornwall College Group will see tourist attraction open its doors to undergraduates

Inspired by previous movement in 1960s, PhD students say that ‘science is not neutral’ and urge scientists to confront their assumptions

An economic historian who ‘almost single-handedly’ transformed our understanding of technological change has died

Peer review system ‘lacks capacity’ to deal with ‘flood’ of new papers, meaning some could be unjustly dismissed

It seems unlikely that charity donors will want to pay for university research overheads – but someone will have to eventually

Charities blame widening gap between their grants and full costs of research 

A study of fear and how to cope with it is admirably unafraid to take sides, finds Tristan A. Bekinschtein

Philip Altbach warns that ‘you can’t starve a higher education system’ without grave consequences

Studies on urine, pain thresholds and unboiled eggs honoured in annual awards for improbable research. John Elmes takes a look

Australian advocates of alternative treatments lobby Canberra for more state funding for research

In tomorrow’s world, all knowledge may be derived from data by a single process, finds John Gilbey

Pioneering medical research in Italy has defied industry and politics for decades, says David Healy

From emotions to waiting tables, our physical frame deserves more credit, finds Joanna Bryson

US institutions top the inaugural Reuters Top 100 Most Innovative Universities table

Grant winners failing to comply with policies to end cronyism and other practices face penalties

Just one in 10 researchers has completed an internship away from the academy, a new survey says

There’s productive provocation in this epically ambitious study, but Chris Millard wishes its rigour matched its scope

Landmark discoveries have relied on some unexpected connections, says Richard Joyner

Dalmeet Singh Chawla looks at short, sharp new ways to impart information from journal articles

Tara Shears on the career thrills and frustrations of a female scientist who made history at Berkeley

A wealth of detail and revealing images bring a troubled critic into focus, says Sharon Kivland

Richard J. Williams is enlightened and amused by the acts and aesthetics of risk reduction in transit

This perceptive ethnography takes Randy Malamud behind the scenes at the penguin pool to ask if the institutions are scientific and educational enterprises or just commercialised animal spectacles

Helen Bynum welcomes a study of the psychiatrist who ended the jail-like seclusion of patients

Initiative to replicate findings of 100 prominent studies raises further questions about health of discipline

Industry-focused offshoot with Jaguar Land Rover link offers teaching from school to manager level

Robotics will affect our societies and economies more than we expect, discovers John Gilbey

Helen Bynum on the unending battle to control one of the most infectious diseases in the world

Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations

More than 409,000 accepted on to courses as clearing gets under way, up 3 per cent on last year

A corpse is the starting point for a lively dissection of experiences big and small, says Jeremy Holmes

Charalambos P. Kyriacou commends an epic analysis of a scientific revolution

THE Africa Universities Summit hears that scholars may be tempted back by improved standards, better facilities and a welcoming atmosphere

Study finds that students choose to major in subjects that are ‘more challenging’ in bad economic times

Asking R&D-heavy companies to help plug gaps in the science budget has implicit appeal but, in reality, only increased public spending is likely to keep global firms in the UK, says Paul Jump

Presidential commission recommends new ministry to push technological development

Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick become the first organisations outside the UK to gain an Athena SWAN charter mark for gender equality

Independent Commission on Fees concerned by high write-off rate and impact on ‘squeezed middle’

Bibliometric analysis concludes lower-quality thresholds in 2014 are more likely explanation for doubling of top-rated research

‘Critical Muslims’ square up to the challenges facing higher education and research

Budget document says the relief was never intended for higher education institutions

Making radios in London Met’s masterclasses gets children on the university wavelength

Epigram editor Zaki Dogliani explores whether students would accept different prices for different courses

Plunging MoD research spend compensated for over past decade by rising research council budget

Dalmeet Singh Chawla rounds up the recent discussion about single figure publications

Researcher charts shift from racial to class segregation

Move follows controversy over comment pieces and cover page for Science

We talk to the latest Sêr Cymru research chair

Dalmeet Singh Chawla considers whether unsuspecting academics should be helped by having legitimate papers republished elsewhere

Report calls for desired graduate skill set in the field to be ‘clearly set out’

More than one in five employers tell annual CBI/Pearson survey that they have provided remedial support

But university governing body says it recognises ‘distress’ caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal

Author Jeanette Winterson among 96 signatories of letter to board of governors

Robert Brownstone will take up the role of chair of neurosurgery at University College London

Institutions pressure Elsevier to permit all Dutch papers to be freely available online by 2024