Essential science
It was shocking to read an academic arguing that science had no place in the abortion debate (Soapbox, January 21). Good science is exactly what we need to inform policymaking in this area. Not the...
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'We have our eye on you...so watch out'
Do websites such as Campus Watch seek balance or do they undermine integrity? Michael North reports Israeli academic Neve Gordon was not too bothered by the image of himself transmuting into Hitler...
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Before you build that nanobot...
A social scientist is posing awkward questions on behalf of the public at Cambridge's new centre for nanoresearch. Jon Turney joins him in the corner Cambridge University's new nanoscience centre is...
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Dirty Den's very public lesson about private lives
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Historians say EastEnders not only won the BBC viewers, it also changed society. Harriet Swain reports Dirty Den and David...
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Conference watch: February
Darwin College lecture series 2005: Why Apes and Humans Kill , Richard Wrangham, February 4; Conflict in the Middle East , Lisa Anderson, February 11; The Roots of Warfare , Barry Cunliffe, February...
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Instant expert: Shopping
Conference: Shopping, Retail and Leisure, 1500-2000. Wolverhampton University, February 2 What's it about? This is a workshop organised by the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (...
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What's a nice Trot doing in a place like this?
Chris Bunting kicks off our special on academic freedom with a look at a group of rightwing ex-Reds infiltrating the media - or so the theory goes Everyone loves a conspiracy, and the tale of Frank...
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Cast your discomfort aside, in matters of life and death, debate is the only thing that counts
The murder of a Dutch film-maker should make us more, not less, willing to air our views, says Paul Cliteur On November 5, the Dutch film-maker and writer Theo van Gogh was murdered in the streets of...
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Today's news
Universities pay the price of European expansion The number of students from new European Union member states has more than doubled in a year. Such students are entitled to apply for places to UK...
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First steps taken towards appointing ERC governing body
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik has announced the names of those people from the research community who will be tasked with identifying potential members of the...
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Waterborne Transport Technology Platform starts work on strategic vision
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Major players from Europe's waterborne transport sector gathered in Bremen, Germany, on 25 January to launch a new Technology Platform in the sector and to begin work on...
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MoU for the Implementation of European Concerted Research Action D35 "from Molecules to Molecular Devices: Control of Electronic, Photonic, Magenetic and Spintronic Behaviour" (link)
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 206/05 Suite of documents 206/05 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 20 January 2005 by Belgium, Germany, the...
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MoU for the Implementation of COST Action D34 "Molecular Targeting and Drug Design in Neurological and Bacterial Diseases" (link)
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 205/05 Suite of documents 205/05 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 20 January 2005 by Belgium, Germany,...
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MoU for the Implementation of COST Action P16 "Ecom: Emergent Behaviour in Correlated Matter" (link)
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 207/05 Suite of documents 207/05 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 20 January 2005 by Belgium, Estonia,...
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MoU for the Implementation of COST Action 730 "Towards a Universal Thermal Climate Index for Assessing the Thermal Environment of the Human Being" (link)
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 204/05 Suite of documents 204/05 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 20 January 2005 by Bulgaria, Germany,...