Foreign funding boosts UK science
Signs of growing interest in scientific innovation within industry have emerged in new figures published by the Office for National Statistics. The number of scientists and engineers working in...
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Lucy Blue
How a love for old boats led to the Red Sea coast of Egypt, and the excavation of one of the ancient world's major trading centres. For someone who has always been obsessed with old boats, a career...
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Why poles are all at sea
It is not only rocks that geologists are using to track the earth's constantly changing magnetic field. Geoff Watts reports on how centuries-old measurements are playing a part. In the early 18th...
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In pursuit of the new paradigm
Oxford's new Said Business School aims to meet the changing expectations of students and the labour market. Deputy director Mari Sako tells Martin Ince how. There are a few things things everyone...
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Anglo-Saxons fought on foot... and horseback
History has recorded them as doughty warriors who eschewed horses and ultimately fell victim to a Norman cavalry charge. Yet new research suggests that the Anglo-Saxons did not always fight on foot...
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Superbug can withstand radiation and starvation
The genetic secrets of the world's toughest bug have been revealed by a team of American scientists, writes Steve Farrar. The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive almost any kind of DNA...
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Poor Slovak mothers more likely to kill boys
Baby boys born to mothers in Slovakia since the collapse of communism ten years ago are three times more likely to become the victims of infanticide than in the previous decade, ground-breaking new...
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Patients get addicted to their portable doctors
It is the ultimate therapist for the electronic era. The latest innovation in psychological treatment is the palmtop computer or electronic personal organiser, for which programs are now being...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
It was the end of September 1976, and the train journey north to Yorkshire from Southampton seemed never-ending. I had just returned from two months roughing it around the Aegean, taking in as many...
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A stellar performance
Astronomer Jay Pasachoff tells Martin Ince how dedication and his wide interests ensure that his popular textbooks are always exciting. You may have thought you were quite adventurous, heading to...
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Teaching students how to study
Study skills are receiving useful attention in higher education circles despite the critics, says Stella Cottrell. The push to "widen access" into higher education presents a challenge. Wider access...
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Download and learn
Edward Barrow surveys current developments in digitisation of coursework As of this term, it is easier for higher education institutions to obtain permission to put scanned extracts from books,...
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Krakow
Poland's Jagellonian University has claimed that a copy of Galileo's Siderius nuncius, recently put up for auction at Sotheby's, is the same copy that was stolen from its library. The Krakow public...
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Title ban is an 'abuse of power', court told
Title hopefuls: Liverpool Hope college secretary Tony Grayson and director of marketing Sharon Bassett at the High Court in London Ministers' clampdown on the unauthorised use of the title "...
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Working students clock up 20 hours a week
Students working during term-time put in an average of nearly 20 hours a week and more than half say it is affecting their studies, according to a survey by the National Union of Students. More than...