The United States is turning away from stem-cell research and cloning (legislation proposing a complete ban enters the Senate next week). Thus does the warrior against intolerance elsewhere in the...
This week's funding allocations for universities and colleges in England are the first concrete manifestation of the new regime at the English funding council. It is a reasonably good settlement. The...
Partnership rights for gay couples are basic human rights, and religious doctrines should be irrelevant when devising secular laws enshrining them, argues Robert Wintemute. At first glance, some...
Pedro Teixeira and Alberto Amaral examine the rise of private provision in education overseas. With the rapid expansion of higher education in recent decades it seemed to make sense to increase the...
Oprah Winfrey? Martha Stewart? Stephen Phillips explains how a $38 million gift to the Smithsonian sparked a storm over donations. Businesswoman Catherine Reynolds's decision last month to back out...
A tiny flat in Cambridge will set you back £130,000 while a Parisian pied-a-terre could be yours for £39,000 - so what are you waiting for? asks Jennifer Wallace. A square in Montmartre. Wicker cafe...
The New DNB still has the good, the bad and the ugly, but women and crime victims are better represented than before, says Huw Richards. Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, Florence Maybrick, Neville Heath,...
Ethnomusicologists are looking to the future as much as to the past in exploring diverse musical traditions, says Michael Church. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: the fact that we know so much about...
It's tough getting art students excited about profit-and-loss accounts, but one day they'll thank you, says Jo Andrews. Since I gave birth for the first time 19 years ago, the mysteries of nature-...
Brussels, 06 March 2002 The international USE-it! conference, which aims to present new concepts for the promotion of academic entrepreneurship, will take place on 24 to 26 April in Bonn, Germany....
Brussels, 06 March 2002 Luxembourg's Parliament has called on the European Commission to renegotiate Directive 98/44 on the protection of biotechnology inventions in view of 'ambiguities regarding...
Brussels, 06 March 2002 The technology for the construction and operation of offshore wind farms is ready for large-scale application, according to a Commission-funded project which examined ways of...
Paris, 06 March 2002 The power for Hubble's scientific discoveries comes from solar cells. Designing and constructing Hubble's first two sets of solar cell arrays constituted a huge technological...
Paris, 06 March 2002 Galileo, Europe's own Global Satellite Navigation System, constituted a major topic for decision at the ESA ministerial Council in Edinburgh last November. That Council agreed...
Brussels, 06 March 2002 Scientists from Europe, North America and South Africa will assemble in London on 13 and 14 May for a two day symposium on the role of science in the challenges of the future...