Bush and Kerry go head to head on science
Brussels, 16 Sep 2004 In the run up to the US presidential election, the science journal Nature has put 15 questions on current science debates to both candidates. The responses by current President...
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Clipboard versus the mortarboard
It's time to speak out against the raw politics and crude economics ruining our universities, says Frank Furedi The university has always existed in an uneasy relationship with other sectors of...
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What Europe can do with its feminine virtue
Neocon Robert Kagan is itching to let narcissistic, wimpy pacifists know just how much they rely on American muscle. Stephen Phillips talks to him Robert Kagan suspects that much of the stir caused...
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A swift brawl is all in a medieval day's work
A rare family archive has given historians a taste of the everyday Middle Ages, says Helen Castor It is no exaggeration to say that biography is the cultural form of the moment. Academic concerns...
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Anglo-Saxon 'weed' choking Euro flowers?
In the competition to woo foreign students, ever more European institutions are offering tuition in English. Harriet Swain finds a mixed reaction to the trend Aslak de Silva is from Finland. He has...
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Wary Britons resist union sales pitches
British conservatism keeps Europe at arm's length despite the benefits of European Union membership. Huw Richards asks academics how the Government could change voters' minds Among the benefits...
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Folly follows the script
The Voynich Manuscript
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Skilled in the hunt for mass discretion
Disarming Iraq - State Building
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A country that puts a face to Big Brother
Secret Histories
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A cat entangled in many worlds
Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics - Beyond Measure - The Quantum World
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The Führer factor in German equations
Mathematicians under the Nazis
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A dish of water and tea may win you $1 million
The Millennium Problems
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, was written by the first graduate of a new creative writing department: "The play - for which Briony designed...
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Cynicism won't help dyslexics 1
If universities were as cynical in their selection policy as Brian Harrison-Jennings implies ("Universities exaggerate dyslexia epidemic for own gain, expert claims", September 10), they would...