Smoother path to democracy
States that have already undergone some economic and social modernisation under previous authoritarian regimes are likely to fare better in the transition to democracy. So argued Hans-Jeurgen Puhle,...
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History project grows into gene machine
The rule that technology changes lives, but never quite in the manner foreseen, is rarely better exemplified than in the career of Gerard Bouchard, professor of history at the University of Quebec,...
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Arson link to Pacific tests
One Friday night back in June Bosco Boscovich went out to dinner in Perth, Australia, with some friends from Curtin University. After a bottle or two of wine the talk turned to the decision by the...
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Canada sovereignty threat
Huw Richards reports from the International Congress of Historical Sciences meeting in Montreal last week. A strong sense of deja-vu grips Canada as it contemplates the siege of protesting native...
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Stalin hoped to keep peace
The imposition of Soviet-style regimes across the liberated nations of central and eastern Europe was not Stalin's initial aim after the second world war, says a leading Hungarian analyst. Mihaly...
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African history of hit and myths
The practice of history in the conventional western sense is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Africa, says the Nigerian historiographer G. Akin Akinola. The specialist in African histography and...
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Iceman cometh to teach wok ways
(Photograph) - Students at Europe's first Academy of Oriental Cuisine begin a three-year NVQ course in Chinese cookery this month. It aims to produce star chefs to rank with the best from France and...
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Round beet makes world sweeter
Biotechnologists have transformed the sugar beet plant so that it has a rounded bottom rather than a conical one. Each conically-shaped plant drags clods of earth with it when it is plucked from the...
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Amateur sleuths turn to DNA tests
Gene testing is being used for all sorts of applications, reports Rifat Malik. When scientists developed DNA testing they could not have envisaged its myriad of uses. It can now trace ancestors...
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Firms hit by kneejerk planning
British manufacturing firms innovate because of pressure from the market-place and not as a result of strategies developed by management, a survey has found. According to Michael West, project...
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Colleges hail Highland first
A Highland University now exists at Inverness College, according to Andrew Miller, principal of Stirling University. Twenty-eight students this week graduated in Inverness with Stirling University...
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Pioneer on the move
Salvador Moncada, who pioneered research into the role of nitric oxide in the body, is to quit his job as chief scientist at Wellcome, the drug company that was recently taken over by Glaxo, and move...
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Activists boycott animal forum
A boycott by anti-vivisection groups of a meeting next week aimed at breaking the impasse on animal experimentation has led to fears that only moderates will be represented. Both the British Union...
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Twigging on to modern art
(Photograph) - Twigging on to modern art: Tim Pugh, artist in residence at Nottingham Trent University, gathers material for his latest work, which he plans to use in mosaic form on the floor of the...
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A real knock-out
Alumni to be proud of no 5: credit for Neill Cream, the Lambeth poisoner also regarded by some commentators as an outside candidate for the role of Jack the Ripper, was shared by St Thomas' Hospital...