'Black intellectual seems an oxymoron in England'
Up to 50 per cent of black male social scientists may have left the UK for the US. Stephen Phillips finds out why. "If you wanted to hold a black British social scientists forum, you'd have to [...
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A true cosmopolitan in search of the bigger picture
As the Northeast prepares to vote on a regional assembly, Huw Richards talks politics with the man heading the ESRC's devolution programme. Charlie Jeffery will have an excellent vantage point as the...
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From con to icon and other risky journeys
Doggedness has carried the best scientists through the mire of public mistrust... provided they're right, says Len Fisher. Scientists have always had trouble overcoming public distrust of new ideas,...
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Darwin is alive and kicking
It is a sad day when serious inquiry is limited by the least able among a sizeable intake of first-years. It is a tragedy that university chiefs have had to adopt sophisticated management skills...
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Moral maze with toil and trouble at its heart
Anthropologists studying societies that believe in witches can encounter huge ethical dilemmas, reports Harriet Swain. Our monthly guide to the conferences taking place around the world. A woman in...
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Conference watch: November
195th meeting of the Society for Endocrinology , and Endocrinology and Diabetes Day , jointly with Diabetes UK, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1-3. Planet Earth - Are We Destroying Our Future?...
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Instant experts: Guitars
Publicity riff : This promises "an international conference celebrating the culture of the guitar in theory and practice". First day will be listening to live performances, second day will be the...
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International research team makes Parkinson's breakthrough
Brussels, Oct 2004 A team of researchers from the UK, the US and Spain have discovered a gene which, when mutated, causes Parkinson's disease in some families, and which could open up new avenues of...
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Genetically modified NK603 maize authorised for both food and feed
Brussels, 26 October 2004 The European Commission today authorised the placing on the market of foods and food ingredients derived from genetically modified maize line NK603 in accordance with the GM...
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Scientific reasoning should be a core school skill, says Royal Society president
Brussels, Oct 2004 The president of the UK Royal Society, Lord May of Oxford, has called on his government to 'embed the acquisition of an understanding of scientific reasoning in the formal...
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Online marketplace for innovative textiles created by FP5 project
Brussels, Oct 2004 The 'Inneurotex' project, funded under the innovation and small and medium sized enterprises section of the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) has created an online marketplace for...
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Basic research in the life sciences
Brussels, Oct 2004 A European Commission event on funding basic research in the life sciences will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 13 December. The aim of the conference is bring about a...
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Complex systems conference to bring together IST projects
Brussels, Oct 2004 A conference on complex systems will take place in Turin, Italy, from 5 to 8 December. The event will bring together all the projects funded within the complex systems initiative...
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New Developing local strategies for climate change
Brussels, Oct 2004 A conference on 'Adapting for climate change- developing local strategies' will take place in London, the UK, on 2 December. The main conference topics will include: - the...
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Revealing Titan's Surface (link)
Paris, Oct 2004 Photos These pictures were created from a sequence of images acquired by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft's cameras on 25 October 2004, 38 hours before its closest approach...