Credit: GettyBertrand Russell: The First Media AcademicBBC Radio 4, 14 January, 8.00pm-9.00pmBertrand Russell (1872-1970) was not only "a mathematician and a philosopher, an earl and an atheist, a...
Leeds and other venuesGiulio Cesare in EgittoOf around 30 operas that Handel wrote in Italian for the London stage in the 1720s and 1730s, Giulio Cesare (1724) is probably the most performed and the...
"I really don't see why anyone should be required to spend valuable university time counting the cost of excrement."This was how our Head of External Relations, Kirk Swavely, responded to the news...
The step from chemistry to biology is so ordinary that life must exist elsewhere, says Gary Day
The wonder of a heroic wartime tale is lost in Steven Spielberg's cinematic landscape, says Will Brooker
Roger Pollard was known for his "sound judgement and creative thinking, passion for academic excellence and zeal for effective and fair governance", as well as for bringing a light-hearted touch to...
US universities are offering alumni new levels of professional and intellectual support in an effort to build lifelong relationships that pay long-term benefits. Jon Marcus reports
University of Texas at AustinAndy EllingtonA researcher has won a major grant to develop a simple paper-based test for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Andy Ellington, who is Wilson and Kathryn Fraser...
Helen and Edith Chesebrough rest on the steps with their Airedale terriers - Rough, Radiance and Master Nobbler - in Burlingame, California in 1917. Three years later, Anita Blake poses with a lapdog...
Funding model for the world's research powerhouse may be irrevocably broken, Jon Marcus is told
How do you teach the humanities to MBA students without them demanding a refund on their tuition fees? And, at a time when the humanities are under threat at many universities, what is the value of...
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• Top marks to zoology researchers at the University of Oxford for their canny PR. Finding a new species of crab on the ocean floor near Antarctica would not normally win newspaper column inches nor...
That people should be moved out of a former nuclear test site seemed a no-brainer. But spending time with those affected led two researchers to revise their views. David Mould reports