End of an era for innovation
The ESRC's five-year innovation programme ended in September. Caroline Davis examines its impact on research. Whisky, manhole covers and periscopes were among the subjects studied in a recent...
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Thirty days to create a moon
It may have taken God six days to create the Earth, but scientists have calculated that it took five times as long to make the Moon. The formation of our planet's sole natural satellite, from the...
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Stubbing out all pleasure
It is difficult enough for smokers to give up their beloved weed but now, it seems, stubbing cigarettes out of their lives altogether may make it harder for them to get pleasure from anything else. A...
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Branch review of tree of life
The tree of life may be in need of some radical surgery. New ideas suggest the last common ancestor - the ancient organism from which all known life has descended - may have been a more complex...
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Call for more cooperation
French scientists say research must be far more interdisciplinary. Jane Marshall reports. Public research in France must forsake its rigid compartmentalisation to become more multidisciplinary, the...
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Chinese toil with loess adjustments
Like avalanches, mass movements of soil can leave a trail of death and disaster. Peter Conradi reports on how scientists in China are trying to prevent them.In the past century, hundreds of thousands...
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Election brings promises of cash
Canada's government has let loose the purse-strings for research, Philip Fine writes The government of Canada played a pre-election hand last month with an economic statement that offered a flush of...
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Plan for Wellcome relief
The Wellcome Trust has unveiled a £3 billion, five-year plan that underlines its growing importance to British science. The corporate plan, the medical charity's first, sets out objectives and values...
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SA crisis leaves students penniless
Zimbabwe's financial and political crisis has left hundreds of Zimbabwean students studying at universities in South Africa penniless and battling to make ends meet. Among the 4,000 or more affected...
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Agony aunt
Helen Johnstone , Registry University College Worcester . A: The rivers are getting higher as water comes down from Wales. We have played it by ear so far. We have been catching up from last week,...
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Star Turn: Paul Bridge
Pat Leon saw the man from Kew sharing his passion for fungi with Birkbeck students. Paul Bridge has a lifelong love affair with fungi. It took him away to Papua New Guinea and other tropical climes...
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How to woo students from overseas
WHAT: Harinder Bahra argues that international students are not units of finance to be thrown in with the rest of the student cohort. WHY: A warm welcome on arrival and sensitive support throughout...
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Inspectors' lives after Woodhead
Does anyone know exactly what the assessors are doing? Geoffrey Squires thinks it is about time we asked them. When someone comes to write the history of British education in the late 20th century,...
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Juan, Carlos and Maria learn Welsh
Robert Owen Jones went to Patagonia to save a dying language. Adrian Mourby reports on the resurrection of Welsh after Perón. Robert Owen Jones loves his subject, but even he admits that socio-...
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University of Nairobi closed after shootings
The University of Nairobi has been closed indefinitely after two students were shot by a government minister's guards outside the Kenyan parliament buildings on November 8. Students protesting over a...