In our series on Big Science Questions, David Buss finds that a lust for love is a universal trait. Why someone falls in love with one person rather than another from the thousands of potential...
As the global economy increasingly thrusts big business into conflict with pressure groups and NGOs, demand has risen for a new academic discipline - 'corporate diplomacy'. Tony Durham reports....
The legacy of Pierre Bourdieu (right), a giant of sociology, is the rigour with which others continue exposing the brutal truth of life under capitalism, writes Fred Inglis. With the death on January...
Without action to halt its demographic time bomb, social work will continue to decline, argues Terry Philpot. Who is Mr or Ms Social Worker? The popular image, and one occasionally peddled by...
For academics who find themselves back on the job market, the advice is to rip up your CV and to see yourself as 'a solution', Olga Wojtas explains. As the financial pressures on higher education...
Is the reason that women are outperforming men academically really due to the switch away from exams to coursework? Ruth Woodfield looks at the evidence. When Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam...
Katrina Honeyman reveals how one man managed to lure male shoppers out of the closet and take the embarrassment out of a feminine pursuit - thus setting the stage to make the buying of clothes...
Brussels, 06 February 2002 Ministerial Seminar on “Therapeutic uses of human tissue and cells in the EU” (6-8 February - Málaga) In 1881, for the first time, a fragment of bone from a human cadaver...
Brussels, 06 February 2002 A representative of the UK government agency English Nature has called on the European Commission to 'think twice' before authorising the use of genetically modified (GM)...
Brussels, 06 February 2002 Rolf Tarrach, President of the Spanish Council for scientific research and member of the European research advisory board (EURAB), has called for EU academic qualifications...
Strasbourg, 6 February 2002 Verbatim report for 5 February, Part 2 Byrne, Commission. - Madam President, I am very encouraged by the recommendations in Mr Olsson's report and his support for the...
Brussels, 06 February 2002 The Organisation for the promotion of energy technologies (OPET) of Bavaria-Austria will host two seminars on 7 and 8 March as part of World Energy Days 2002. The first...
More power for Cambridge v-c in proposed reform Cambridge University is to beef up the powers of its vice-chancellor and water down the traditional democratic role of its community of scholars as...
Scandal of cash for drug company papers Scientists are accepting large sums of money from drug companies to put their names to articles that they have not written endorsing new medicines - a growing...
Brussels, 05 February 2002 This topic will be discussed by the Ministers of Health of the EU, due to meet in Malaga on Friday. EU experts are to meet, over a period of two days starting tomorrow, in...