Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy, by Frank Close
A biography of a secretive scientist comes with a cast worthy of a le Carré novel, says Jon Turney
A biography of a secretive scientist comes with a cast worthy of a le Carré novel, says Jon Turney
The UK synchrotron seeks more university groups to set up second homes at the site to create a genuine research campus
Kevin Spacey to play a key cameo in new home for fashion, fine art, film and theatre students
Leverhulme TrustSciencesAward winner: Iain OswaldInstitution: University of StrathclydeValue: £159,982Pressure-induced synthesis of doped polymers - a greener route to functional polymersAward winner...
The archive of the Animation Research Centre, housed at the University for the Creative Arts Farnham, contains more than a million objects tracing the development of British animation from the 1940s...
Four UK universities are teaming up with the BBC to produce massive open online courses about the First World War
These items come from the archive of the Nobel prizewinning novelist J. M. Coetzee, which was acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at the University of...
A pioneer in an emerging artistic field deserves a prominent place in the annals of film, finds Philip Kemp
The flawed research excellence framework is not a process of peer review in any meaningful sense, argues Derek Sayer, who appealed against his inclusion in the exercise
An oral history project seeks to collect the memories of the ‘Ten Pound Poms’ and those they left behind
An innovative Building Research Park shares a former RAF base with Science Museum treasures
Unhindered by league tables, a for-profit business-focused institution says it is happily widening participation
The archive of the Animation Research Centre, housed at the University for the Creative Arts Farnham, contains more than a million objects tracing the development of British animation from the 1940s...
Technical University of Munich and Max Planck Society launch tenure track scheme. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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