Outclassing natives 2
There is nothing surprising in the findings about British students' grammar and spelling. One could have predicted this from the reliance on word processors and the new language of mobile-phone text...
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Science needs friends
Lord May is not alone in noticing how US television portrays science in a more favourable light than in the UK ("It's science, Jim, but not as we know it", February 17). The sitcom Friends had an...
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Professional shame
David Southall suggests that the reason the General Medical Council struck off Sir Roy Meadow was a perceived need to redress previous failures of regulation ("Justice for a hero of hidden errors",...
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Back to our back yard?
Was I alone in struggling to find sympathy for Sir Paul Nurse ("Nurse turns on US as research is 'besieged'", March 3)? Only two years after leaving Britain for the US (presumably attracted by, among...
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Sign only if certain
Stephen Senn (Letters, March 3) overlooked a significant point regarding the publicised drug study collaboration of Procter & Gamble with Sheffield University. Authors and all scientists take the...
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Online support
Although I appreciated the positive reflections on my Quantitative Methods for Business text (Textbook Guide, February 24), I would like to make a correction. The book is supported by a website -...
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Your thoughts are no longer worth a penny
Information overload and endless means of communication have deprived us of the ability to reflect, says Terry Eagleton, who invites fellow Luddites to part company with e-mails and mobiles When do...
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An espresso at three in the morning is just so last year
US students have found a new family of drugs to give them a competitive edge, reports Stephen Phillips You don't have to frequent the dark corners of campuses to come across a student drug that is...
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Tortured, shot, ambushed, victims are found dumped outside morgues. What is happening to Iraq's intellectuals is chilling
Dr Mohammed Tuki Hussein Al Talakani Dr Eman Younis Dr Jammour Khammas Dr Mohammed Washed Professor Wajeeh Mahjoub Professor Sabri Al Bayati Professor Laila Al Saad Professor Muneer Al Khiero...
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Do you want to live to be 800? This man says that you can
A biogerontologist claims ageing can be reversed. Not all agree, finds Becky McCall I t comes as something of a surprise when Aubrey de Grey - a man who promotes a scientific theory that is dependent...
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Summers and discontents
Harvard staff's disillusionment with their ex-president wasn't just over PC politics. Their doubts over his frankness came to a head last month, says Stephen Phillips The resignation of Harvard...
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EU network for public health genomics gets underway
Brussels, 08 Mar 2006 Modern research in genetics and molecular biology offers new opportunities for improving public health and for helping the authorities tackle common diseases. It is important to...
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New platform to bring together the voices of women scientists across Europe
Brussels, 08 Mar 2006 Supporting and assisting women working in science is not a particularly new phenomenon. In fact, there are many organisations and networks around Europe with this mandate....
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'Real progress will be when young women choose not to give up on science'
Brussels, 08 Mar 2006 When one considers women in science, very few have reached the heights achieved by Susan Greenfield - director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Fullerian professor of...
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Re-searching women in science and technology
Brussels, 08 Mar 2006 A conference entitled 'Re-searching women in science and technology' will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 15 and 16 May. The event is intended to give a new impetus to...