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The Royal Society Prize for Science Books stimulates public interest and is too important to be allowed to disappear, says Maggie Philbin
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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
The Islamic renaissance laid the foundations for much modern thinking, writes Emilie Savage-Smith
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The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System
Jim Wild takes a whistle-stop tour of the most mind-blowing destinations in our celestial backyard
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Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics
All readers of this magazine must be aware of the global warming, in recent years, of the dispute between those minded to bring their religious convictions firmly into politics and those determined...
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The Canon: Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural MaterialismEdited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan SinfieldPolitical Shakespeare appeared in 1985, alongside a similarly focused collection of essays,...
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Understanding Euroscepticism
Richard Rose admires the clarity with which Europe's growing doubts about integration are outlined
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The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives
As the internet has become not only an important news source, but a force that is rapidly merging traditional news platforms, television, print media and subjective postings, it is somewhat...
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The Autism Matrix
This is a key contribution to a growing body of literature examining the history and cultural meaning of autism. Using a wide variety of data sources, the authors outline a sociology of autism that...
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Top nations in neuroscience and behaviour
Top nations in neuroscience and behaviourData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpact1 England24,009 600,942 25.032...
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Outcry over Scottish call for graduate contributions
Unions want the employer to bear the financial burden, not the student. Hannah Fearn reports
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Research profiling puts UCU noses out of joint
The University and College Union has condemned the University of Manchester's decision to repeat an exercise that assigns numerical scores to staff on the basis of their research output.Manchester...
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News in brief
RedundanciesLancaster loses pay-off appealLancaster University has lost an appeal to overturn a ruling that it pay 60 days' salary to a group of employees whose fixed-term contracts were not renewed...
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Time to shelve the book habit
Think digitally and steer academics away from their 'cravings', librarians are told. Hannah Fearn writes
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University of Birmingham - Star performers
Scientists have been measuring stars by monitoring their "singing ability". Researchers at the University of Birmingham have observed the natural pulse of the light waves emitted by stars and...
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University of Surrey - Power napping
Older people should not feel guilty about taking naps during the day if it allows them to keep active and busy when they are feeling less tired, new research suggests. Academics at the University of...