Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - In this image the telescope was set to pick up the green emissions from iron XII ions, which are common at a temperature of 1.5 million Kelvin.
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - Orange-emitting helium II ions are formed at about 70,000 K. Such emissions are blotted out by the earth's atmosphere. On the bottom left a plume stretches far into space.
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Heaven and helium
(Photograph) - As part of Sheffield Hallam University's Elastic Frontiers Festival, fine-art student Tatjana Kovachevic used helium filled balloons to decorate the city's Victorian cemetery. She...
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Stage-managed
(Photograph) - Students on the theatre design degree course at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design are competing to produce the best stage design for the Birmingham Royal Ballet's new...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a novelist with an entomological bent: "Growing quieter and communicating almost unconsciously through glances, they thought that it would soon be time, too, to find...
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Speaking Volumes: The Road to Serfdom
John Blundell on Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom . I stumbled on to Hayek's book by accident. I saw a reference to it by George Orwell: "This book should be read by everybody" he commanded. I...
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Alphabetical portrait of the artist
James Joyce A to Z
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Feminine complaints
The Harvard Guide to Women's Health
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Plenty of scopes for success
Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851
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Dynasties and nasty deaths
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors
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Iceman cometh through the window
Archaeology
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Russia's redundant revolutionary
The Gorbachev Factor - Life and Reforms
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The end of history: a readers' companion
The Encyclopedia of Democracy
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Stalin's vilified victim
Trotsky
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE David Coyle, University of Strathclyde, was voted Financial Director of 1996 by Scotland's business community. PAUL DIRAC MEDAL. J. Pendry, professor in the department of...