Leap ahead by hopping from one field to another Research councils want academics to spend some time outside their own disciplines, says Zoe Corbyn 17 July
Swirling synapses Michael Siegal marvels at the intricacies and paradoxes of our evolutionary psychology 17 July
Law enforcers need to taste the benefit of surgical spirit A surgeon says policing will improve by adopting medicine's research-led approach. John Gill writes By John Gill 10 July
Top projects lose out in STFC cuts Astrogrid and ILC funding trimmed, but eMerlin is spared. Zoe Corbyn and Melanie Newman report 10 July
Wolverhampton to appeal loss of validation for pharmacy masters Royal society withdraws after concerns over leadership and quality. Melanie Newman reports 10 July
Growing together Nancy Rothwell, Raymond Dwek, Alan Malcolm and Richard Dyer on the future of UK biology's learned societies 10 July
Monstrous intelligence Pamela Clemit on the electrifying hum of ideas that jolted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to life 3 July
Treat researchers as a renewable resource with transferable skills Putting staff on insecure fixed-term contracts is a false economy that harms research, says Sean Wallis. Let's recycle their expertise instead 3 July
Bradford calls in external race adviser Eight years on from initial furore, university acknowledges failings, writes Melanie Newman 3 July
The Star Wars solution to climate change that will crash back to earth Strategies to deal with global warming must embrace all disciplines and approaches, not merely the technological, says Mike Hulme 26 June
The divine is in the detail Clumsy questions and dodgy data bedevil claims that high IQ leads to atheism, says Denis Alexander. A closer look offers a different picture 26 June
Where X does not equal Y Helen Haste reflects on neuroscience's latest insights about the male and female of our species 26 June
The nosy professor Sam Gosling pokes around people's homes, into their cupboards and under their beds. But it's not voyeuristic - such off-the-wall research is delivering crucial insights into personality, Matthew Reisz discovers By Matthew Reisz 26 June
Latin algorithms A chance encounter led Alan Clements to a visiting professorship in Cuba, where he has also helped shape the IT curriculum 26 June
Homoeopaths label scientists the 'new fundamentalists' Clinical research 'inappropriate' to test alternative therapies, practitioners argue. Zoe Corbyn writes 26 June
