During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln upbraided a critic by asking "do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" Scott Atran wants the US to follow Abe's example by, if not...
As a scholar of scientific and technological utopias, I have read countless visions of the allegedly perfect society. It has long been common to depict a future society in which transportation is...
David Gewanter detects the inconvenient truths in a passionate look at a great British cultural export
The present-day Foreign Office in Whitehall is an imposing building...whose genesis is bizarre. In 1857 a competition was held to pick an architect, which provoked a huge row between two rival...
The American Revolution against British rule in the future US tore families apart. While Benjamin Franklin, American Patriot and inventor of the lightning rod, was in Paris drumming up support for...
THE WELLCOME TRUSTEach winner will receive between £1 million and £3 million, with the total allocation worth £56 millionInvestigator Awards• Award winner: Jurg Bahler• Institution: University...
For-profit 'impairment' causes concern, but firm's chief hails 'shrewd move'. Simon Baker writes
An international group of more than 60 academics has accused a controversial evolutionary psychologist of refusing to engage in scientific dialogue, highlighting long-standing criticism of his work...
Questions have been raised over how the decision to merge the School of Pharmacy with University College London was reached, as a bitter rift between senior managers and some staff continues to...
Delegates vote for a summer of discontent over pay and pensions. John Morgan reports
A diverse range of motions at the University and College Union congress covered worries over student-to-staff ratios, vice-chancellors standing "snout-to-snout in the trough" against their employees...
As the new union president takes office, he tells John Morgan about his priorities for the future
German university investigates allegations of research misconduct. Paul Jump reports
Uncertainty is the status quo for most early career researchers, for whom job security is generally a forlorn hope. But that will change for 50 postdoctoral researchers being sought by the University...
Manchester Metropolitan University has said that it will "take all means to defend itself" over allegations of low standards on an exam after appearing to agree with a student that the test was "very...