I was just about to deliver this review of Number-Crunching by Paul Nahin, the electrical engineer and prolific popular science writer, when two news stories within 24 hours caused me to opt for a...
It may be too early for fresh scholarly insights on the Middle East uprisings, says Madawi Al-Rasheed
Kevin Young assesses a persuasive analysis of the staying power of market-driven economics
The history of humanity's engagement with milk is as much one of fear and revulsion as it is of pleasure and nutrition. For the Greeks and Romans, milk was for infants or to be poured on altars as...
The great literary question in the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War concerned the morality of the emerging and powerful publishing industry. Here, Michael Everton explores the...
Despite its sci fi-action trappings, Doctor Who is tinged with sadness, says Will Brooker. When you travel the vortex, time is the only constant companion
LiverpoolThe Resistible Rise of Arturo UiIn 1930s Chicago, small-time crime boss Arturo Ui and his men can provide protection - for workers, businesses and jobs. As the Great Depression hits the city...
Recycled material: Museo Aero Solar set to soarMuseum Show: Part 1BristolMuseums have such power to determine what is important and what is not that many artists have been tempted to create mini-...
As usual at this time of the academic year, we are pleased to provide a transcript of our vice-chancellor's official speech of welcome to all our new students."I'm very pleased and indeed honoured to...
Advocates say 'enriched content' represents the future of the scholarly article. Andy Wright reports
Circling hilltop castles and seeking out thermals, occasionally shadowed by a sociable buzzard - Paul Nurse attests to the joys of taking to the skies on the slenderest of wings
• Any concern that higher education is a low priority for the UK's coalition government will surely be banished by a new advertising campaign that counts universities alongside all things that make...
So the UK tells foreign students with its visa regime. Australia once did too, but it has changed its tune to hang on to a rich trade
When the South University of Science and Technology of China decided to break the rules last year and recruit 45 students without having permission to do so - and without requiring them to take the...
University of British ColumbiaSarah OttoWhen Sarah Otto, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia, received an email telling her that she had won a "genius grant...