Silence about a destructive power
Environmental Practice
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Care of world is making us sick
Health, Risk and Society
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How to make beasts nervy
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
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Eclipse maps and other star investments
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
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Big game flushed out by beaters
Developmental Science
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who has just bowed out of life's dance: "Duck, flying in from the south, ignored four or...
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Irregular link-ups, regular rules OK
Words and Rules
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A bored fly on the wall at the Tate Modern
Power into Art
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. One of today's major scientific questions, the patenting and use of human genetic material, is probed in the second...
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It could be you: Academics receive a Helping hand-out
W. G. Sebald:novelist. The German-born writer W. G. (Max) Sebald, 56, is professor of European literature at the University of East Anglia and one of the most original fiction writers today. His...
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Legal lions lie with lambs
Should animals have the same basic legal rights as people? Yes, says Steven Wise, who was incensed by scientists' treatment of a young chimp. In the mid-1980s, a tiny group of Londoners accused the...
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Castaway with no soap and a flatulent boffin
They can split atoms and clone sheep, but maroon scientists on a desolate island minus their gadgetry and can they conjure up a bar of soap? The BBC sent the Open University's Mike Bullivant and four...
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E-volution, not revolution
The first signs are emerging that people are moving away from using the internet -so have universities over-reacted to the e-commerce frenzy? Harriet Swain reports. Dot-coms, e-commerce and web-based...
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A new media chair
The London School of Economics is about to appoint its first professor in new media and the internet. The post will cover research into anything from the social, political and cultural consequences...
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E-business degree
Brunel University will launch a BSc in e-commerce this September. Time has been so tight in pulling together the programme that it will have to be launched through clearing. But David Sims, head of...