V-cs attack NHS revamp
Vice-chancellors have warned that proposals to change the way the National Health Service trains its staff and plans staffing could undermine the expansion in medical education announced last week....
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Liverpool archaeologist joins rush to rescue Turkish slice of history
Archaeologists from around the world are engaged in a desperate race to save the ancient city of Zeugma on the Euphrates River in southern Turkey. Mosaics regarded by archaeologists as some of the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, is from a contemporary US novelist who calls himself a "failed ascetic": " He speaks in your voice, American,...
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Close eyes and see
Sight Unseen - Representation and Recognition in Vision
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Diving into an ocean of wonders in pursuit of the marvellous
The Artificial Kingdom
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A history of hostility to power
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism
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Brief lives of some star performers
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy - On Tycho's Island
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How to get your profile on to a biscuit
Defining Features
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No business sense, but plenty of genius
The Man Who Invented the 20th Century
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They're some jolly good fellows
Metals and the Royal Society
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Life and loves of the man in the white suit
Count Rumford
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The shifting fortunes of drift
Continental Drift - The Rejection of Continental Drift
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The icy face of George Everest
Everest
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From paper to data
Susan Whitfield once worried that her 'techie' research would hinder her career. As a showcase conference opens, she asks universities to reward digital work in the arts Paper and printing,...
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Mapping the Irish famine
Historians can be reluctant to use maps - despite the availability of computer tech-niques. But in 1991, staff at Queen's University, Belfast, started converting census statistics for Ireland into...