Scientists in Wales want to keep Britain a leader in astronomical instrumentation. Iola Smith reports. The secrets of the hidden universe are the target of Wales's newest and perhaps oddest factory:...
The main United States government agency overseeing academic research has proposed guidelines that would discourage scholars from accepting some research contracts. It aims to thwart confidentiality...
Salvaging brain cells immediately after a stroke could increase the chances of a full recovery, scientists at Manchester University say. Nancy Rothwell, Medical Research Council professor in...
Parents are moving away from using traditional play areas for their children and opting for the new range of commercial play centres springing up around the country, according to a study out this...
Women on the pill are being endangered by accident and emergency doctors who do not alert them of the danger of using antibiotics alongside oral contraceptives. A study in Buckinghamshire and south-...
In anticipation of the fourth world maths conference that is taking place in Edinburgh next month, Julian Hunt and Jack Carr survey future applications of mathematics and computing Mathematicians...
Geometry Civilised
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the only Nobel laureate for literature ever to appear in Wisden: "The sun shone, having no alternative...
The Nazi War on Cancer
The Particle Century
Master of Modern Physics
Science in the Service of the Empire
Lengthening the Day - Edison
Ludwig Boltzmann
The Politics of Large Numbers