Why do empires rise? Richard Drayton asks what motivates one nation to subordinate and impose its value system on others All empires are expressions of inequality hidden behind a mask of community....
A recent conference considered the idea that nations will wage war with IT rather than conventional arms but, Doron Arazi says, few were won over The war in Iraq has highlighted the potential that...
Scientists Colin Blakemore and Gill Langley square up for tonight's Controversial Thesis debate at the National Portrait Gallery. They will be confronting questions such as is there a good enough...
The moral status of animals is at the centre of the debate about whether they should be used in research and testing. Few people disagree that animals count in our moral framework, but the question...
In the Third Reich, nurses went from caring for patients to killing them. Claire Sanders finds out why The history of the Holocaust has become sanitised," says Linda Shields, holder of the foundation...
US research bans and immigration controls may be reversing the brain drain. Stephen Phillips reports Since the Royal Society coined the phrase in the 1950s, "brain drain" has customarily referred to...
The Man Who Found Time
Who Runs This Place?
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam
El Greco
Defending Science- Within Reason:
Isaac Newton
The Story of Life - When Life Nearly Died
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a history of the past 13,000 years: "We all know that history has proceeded very differently for...
The Scientific Study of Mummies