First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a scientific work based on face values ... "Many works have been written on expression, but a greater...
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Prime case of numbers indivisible
Mathematics without Borders
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The discus and domino effects
Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics
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Can we change the past?
The River of Time
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Stalked by fear
Gillian Hartshorne was "a secretary from hell", David Canter told Liverpool Crown Court last month. She made more than 500 abusive telephone calls to him and more than a dozen to PhD student Samantha...
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Stalked by fear
More and more academics are being harrassed at work. One victim, David Canter, describes his 18 months of hell and tells others how to protect themselves When does determination to see justice done...
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Five years of Darwin seminars: a paradigm shift?
The Scientist 'The main interest of evolutionary psychologists is in traits that all humans share. These they see as evolved adaptations to a pre-agricultural way of life' I first met ideas about...
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Higher channels
John Davies casts an academic eye over the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week It's Science Week. This means the Tomorrow's World team has an hour of live television in Megalab...
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Human nature totally explained
Why do we behave as we do? Because our brains are programmed for a Stone Age way of life, say the new Darwinians. Jon Turney reports on a controversial theory -publicised in Britain by a series of...
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GM deluge threatens UK
Unsafe genetically modified foods may soon find their way into shops, Philip James, the man behind the Food Standards Agency, warned MPs this week. Here, he and Andrew Chesson argue that a flood of...
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Regulatory links in the food chain
GM deluge threatens UK Can Britain's regulatory system deal with applications for the development of new foods using unprecedented combinations of genes? "Yes," says Janet Bainbridge, chair of the...
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Will curiosity kill Schrodinger's cat?
Quantum theory holds that a cat can be alive and dead. Alison Goddard talks to Roger Penrose, who plans to confront physics with common sense - no matter whom it upsets Roger Penrose is a worrier. He...
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Reality check will take less than a second
Roger Penrose wants to know if the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics - which says that a system can exist simultaneously in two states until observed, when it must become one or the...
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Ready to roll
Ready to roll: Coventry University's transport design student Jochen Paesen at Silverstone for the Formula Vauxhall Juniors winter series race. The university has given him two bursaries to enable...
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Readers' reactions
Recently in The THES..Linda McGowan agued that government policy is deterring mature student from going to university Ian Brown, Undergraduate, University of Sheffield I am a first-year undergraduate...