Amino royale
Princess Anne will be clearing the royal mantelpiece to make room for a gift from Edinburgh University this week. She opened its £8 million biomolecular research centre, which brings together a...
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Norwegians would
Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway - Europe's most unconventional royal couple - will move to the United Kingdom in the autumn to study. The prince will do a masters degree in...
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Frisk your laptop, sir?
Belarus has tightened its controls on the export of information so that anyone wishing to take a laptop computer out of the country has to deliver it to customs for checking 24 hours before departure...
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Aerodynamic leader
St Catherine's College, Oxford, has appointed an aerodynamics expert as its new head after the sudden departure of Sir Peter Williams. Roger Ainsworth, deputy head of the university's engineering...
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Skill raiser
Congratulations to Christopher Duff, who has been appointed chief executive of the Sector Skills Development Agency, the new UK-wide body to oversee the government's drive to raise skills and...
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Vote yes or no. Or both
Students at Imperial College, London, this week held a referendum on joining the National Union of Students. The student newspaper carried two full-page adverts, one supporting and one opposing the...
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Dirty shots in the dark
Unsterile injections, which may have led to the emergence of Aids, show the risks of using new, poorly understood technologies inmedicine, argues Ernest Drucker. Darwin taught us that although...
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Healthy diet? Eat your words
Marion Nestle and Chris Bunting open a four-page special on food and the future with a look at the power of the US and UK food industries. Each week, the average Briton gulps down about two litres of...
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Profit drive requires force feeding the fat
Marion Nestle and Chris Bunting open a four-page special on food and the future with a look at the power of the US and UK food industries. In my 25 years as a nutrition educator in the United States...
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Give nourishment to each person according to need
Functional food could solve the problems of starvation and obesity, says Robert Pickard. Human beings in the developed world no longer see food simply as fuel for life. Individuals look to food to...
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The paid adulterators everyone loves to hate
Food scientists, once considered altruists, are now seen as driven purely by commerce. They will regain public trust only by answering tough questions, says Tim Lang. The past 20 years have shocked...
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With a world to feed, can we afford to boycott GM?
Faced with diminishing natural resources and millions of people suffering from malnutrition, we must consider the use of GM foods to sustain the future, says Philip Dale. Last year genetically...
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Saffron spin on India's past
As sectarian violence flares up, Mohan Luthra and Kulbir Natt look at reactions to the plan of India's Hindu-backed ruling party to rewrite school history books with an emphasis on 'religious values...
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Universal line on gay rights must take in local twists
Gay rights campaigners must address the diverse mores of different cultural groups, argues Alan Sinfield. " When gays and lesbians are attacked, it's particularly viciousI They aren't just punched....
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And evil came to stay
The creative growth of the director of the Inuit film Atanarjuat mirrored the flowering of his native territory, Nunavut, writes Michael Bravo. Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), the Inuit-made feature...