David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin provide an inside view of the science of the liquid crystals that are responsible for the displays that have not only become our windows into the digital world, but have...
Playfulness and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? The two are not generally associated. After all, Thomas Carlyle compared Coleridge with "a hundred horse-power engine stuck in the mud and with the boiler...
Richard J. Evans lauds a masterly account of deadly evacuations in the last months of the Third Reich
Paul Taylor digs up the folklore and the symbolic significance of sea urchin skeletons
Malcolm Gillies analyses the rapid rise of James Rhodes, and asks how much is hype and how much is talent
NottinghamRoman Sexuality: Images, Myths and MeaningsWhat are we to make of the range of sexual images to be found in Roman art and archaeology? This exhibition at the Weston Gallery - part of the...
Gabriel OrozcoTate Britain, London, until 25 AprilWhen Gabriel Orozco was a child, he thought that squashing a car might make it more aerodynamic and fast-moving. In 1993, he got a chance to put his...
In what is being described as "a dramatic breakthrough", a research team led by our Deputy Head of Neuroscience, Dr E.G. Pataglig, has established that there is no measurable cognitive difference...
Lab laments after order mix-up leaves it no choice but to retract journal paper. Paul Jump writes
The kettling tactic meant to keep a lid on student protest may have done the opposite. Is academic anger next to reach a boil?
David Colquhoun tells Paul Jump that the only way to maximise UK potential is to restrict research to an elite circle
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Student protesters should not expect police officers who oversee their "silly demonstrations" to contribute through taxes for "bone-idle, bourgeois softies to stay in bed all day playing video games...
There is no doubt that the funding cuts that are about to hit the UK higher education sector are deep and worrying. But that sector is not alone in Europe in facing a bleaker financial future.In the...
A lawyer turned academic librarian with "a great sense of puckish humour", Morris L. Cohen directed some of the US' most prestigious law libraries during his career.Born in New York on 2 November 19...