My other half
A typographical slip gave Lois S. Bibbings an authorial sex change, and while she pondered textual 'gender reassignment', her alter ego made off with her kudos. Still, she can't help liking the...
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
All becomes clear in an admirable account of the hunt for the Higgs Boson, writes Athene Donald
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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy
William Poole examines a pioneering anatomist's explorations that advanced medical knowledge
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Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation
In the days following the death of Osama bin Laden, a quote attributed to Martin Luther King pinged about social networking websites and into email inboxes: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious...
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Open access will levy uneven tolls on institutions, study contends
Scholars say 'gold' model will cost research elites dear while others hitch a ride. Andy Wright reports
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How to end bad reviews, for good
Matthew Reisz follows the trail of a fictional scholar’s deadly solution to negative criticism
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Mirror on the bathroom and Hackney on a plate
Geographers look at queer lavatories, GPS, urban food production and humour, writes Matthew Reisz
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Dodging the bombs and bullets to get to campus
Universities in Somalia's capital are surviving against the odds, as David Matthews reports
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News in brief
The NetherlandsScandal hits recruitmentA higher education college in the Netherlands that was embroiled in a corruption scandal last year has seen its student intake fall by almost a third. The...
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Slimming down but still generous with advice
HEA doesn't need subject centres, advocates argue, but critics disagree. Jack Grove reports
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Grant winners
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programmeIN DETAILAward winner: Khalid KhanInstitution: University of LondonValue: £742,794Development and validation of...
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Greatest story ever told?
Jeremy Black is making a stand against the grandiose claims made by far too many blurbs on the back of academic books
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ESRC grant success rates slip to 16 per cent
The council's latest grant application figures raise questions about its future. Paul Jump reports
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New fears for lab-based courses in run-up to funding reform
Renewed warnings have been voiced about the impact of funding changes on science and engineering departments amid fears that some will become loss-makers.
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Cuts could see Queen's axed from Russell Group
Proposed cuts threaten university's place among elite, pro v-c claims. David Matthews reports