University endowments could be the key to promoting better basic research, writes Julian Le Grand . The Conservative proposal at the time of the last general election to replace the present system of...
Figures from animal experimenters show that 98-99 per cent of human diseases are never seen in a non-human animal (Letters, THES , August 30, September 7, 14). Induced diseases do not behave in the...
The World Medical Association's declaration of Helsinki was amended last year so that "laboratory animal procedures are no longer recommended as essential before studies on humans are conducted". The...
In light of the difficulties of those with PhDs finding work, (Letters, THES , August 17, September 21), perhaps we should reflect on the title of the body overseeing such matters. Is it not ironic...
As someone who has enjoyed the benefits of performance-related pay for more than ten years, I was amused to read in your editorial ( THES , September 21) that PRP in academia might help address the...
The Russell Group's draft response to consultative plans for a new quality assurance regime for England does not appear to be an attempt to torpedo the consultation as your report "Russell elite go...
Questions such as these, based on real-life case studies, are being used to stimulate all students, not just MBAs. Sue Law reports. Case studies are breaking out of the MBA hothouse and into...
Trainee stage managers get the chance to use cutting-edge equipment in an unusual college-industry link. Olga Wojtas catches the pyrotechnics. Pyrotechnics and light shows are as close to rock and...
Tony Tysome reports on the performance artist trying to extend the horizons of robotics An opportunity to witness science and art working together is still something of a rarity, despite a growing...
A funnel and a piece of pipe provide the cheap, green answer to purifying water at tap point around the world Water is one of the basic needs of all living beings. Each of us consists of about 65 per...
Scientists have taken an important step towards a molecular computer, a machine that uses single molecules to store and manipulate data. Phaedon Avouris's team at the IBM/ Watson Research Center,...
The air above the South Pole is alive with highly reactive molecules that no-one knew were there. The discovery overturns the long-held assumption that the surface of the continent was almost...
A good frost may have made all the difference when it came to determining the wealth of nations. United States economists William Masters, at Purdue University, and Margaret McMillan, at Tufts...
Pinpointing when hunter-gatherers became farmers calls for clever science and detective work. Geoff Watts met sleuths piecing together the evidence. The Neolithic revolution may not be as familiar as...
In Canto XXXIII of his Inferno , Dante tells how in 1289, during political upheavals, Count Ugolino della Gherardesca was imprisoned with his family, and without food, in a tower dungeon in Pisa,...