Nasty question for Nice
The new National Institute for Clinical Excellence is right to ask for more facts about Relenza, Glaxo Wellcome's new flu drug (page 64). For the GP, few prospects are worse than a drug that...
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Scientific spectacles
Biscuit-dunking, IgNobel-winning physicist Len Fisher wonders if popular platforms can get across the real wonders of science Harvard University's Sanders Theatre was packed last week for an event...
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Eau de Pig is a hit
A synthetic "pig muck" scent developed by British scientists that would put off even the most ardent suitor is attracting the attention of livestock farmers. The foul-smelling brew was cooked up by...
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Scientists put a cork in snorers
A radical treatment for snoring, which involves modifying the palate with radio waves, has been given a glowing bill of health in long-term tests. A team from the Stanford Sleep Disorders and...
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Health: blessing of only the rich?
Research into the link between mortality and inequality has been given a boost by a government that appears to care more. Geoff Watts reports According to an 1842 report on "the sanitary conditions...
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The estates we're in: the finance 'jam' has been spread too thinly and too erratically for far too long
UK research may be a world leader but, Brian Salter argues, it urgently needs an injection of cash to stem the decay in its infrastructure As the funding councils launch their reviews of research...
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Soft subjects suffer low esteem
Scientists and the public share doubts about research, but findings in social science are least respected, say Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt A few weeks ago we conducted a survey of delegates and...
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Going public will bolster global profile of UK science
Lloyd Anderson surveys the British Council's efforts to foster partnerships and raise awareness of UK creativity The United Kingdom is highly regarded for education, but it falls into a second...
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Martian 'meteorites' feel the heat
The hunt for "missing" Martian meteorites has been boosted by a successful mission to put similar terrestrial rock fragments into orbit and then subject them to the rigours of re-entry, writes Steve...
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Russians lack cash for study
MOSCOW Russian students wishing to study abroad are more than 100 times more likely to gain grants or financing from education and training programmes in the United States as in Britain, university...
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Cybercafe
(Photograph) - Celebrity chef Nick Nairn samples dishes from a local Asian company, Mrs Unis Spicy Food, to launch a high-tech sensory evaluation suite at Queen Margaret University College in...
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'Red tape' threatens drug research in UK
Pharmaceutical research in the United Kingdom faces a slow death if the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence turns out to be a red-tape garotte, leading academics have warned. Amid the row...
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Subject panels in need of 'users' to get funding
Funding for research in languages, maths, law, geography and psychology may suffer because the panels assessing them for the next research assessment exercise do not include industry and public...
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A deity called Elvis
International Journal of Cultural Studies - Cultural Values
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Time to Karl up and die
The Philosophers