Students take over army base
Students will replace soldiers as the United States relinquishes control of the Panama Canal in 2000. Plans are well advanced for a vast tax-free higher education and research facility on sites left...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel in which the narrator shares a birthday with 1,000 others: "I was...
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Growing Gaia needs iron
Gaia's Body
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How scripture nursed the men of science
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
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The art of death reckoning
Studies Show
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Emotion in motion
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - The Emotional Brain
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The poet and the engineer
The Art of Moral Protest
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A player, an umpire and a manager describe their roles in the ever-expanding journals game
Citation circus ignites explosion THE SUBMITTER'S TALE Graham Barnfield, lecturer in American studies, Brunel. "It's a waiting game: from sending an article to a journal to actually getting the...
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Celebrity scientist
Paul Davies, one of the world's great communicators of science, talks to Harriet Swain about religion and fame, and (right) explains why the origin of life remains such a mystery Paul Davies is...
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Why the human race might not exist if evolution returned to square one
Perhaps the three greatest outstanding challenges to science at the turn of the Millennium are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of consciousness. The first and last of...
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South Africa's chaotic cultural revolution
The ANC's attempts to make South Africa's universities cater for the black majority population has plunged them into crisis, argues R. W. Johnson South Africa's universities are struggling against...
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Widening the poverty trap door
Last week 150 academics supported a letter opposing the government's welfare reforms. In the latest in the series on social exclusion, Ruth Lister explains what is wrong with pushing people off...
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Citation circus ignites explosion
Two thousand new research journals spin off the presses every year. Why? reports Ever heard of Bradford's law? It is the rule that of the cornucopia of journals produced by academics to publish the...
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Elizabeth Tate
(Photograph) - Tate Gallery: Elizabeth Tate, lecturer at Sunderland University, installs her sculpture, 'Bronze Grove', as part of a university exhibition at Bradley Nursery and Gardens, Wylam,...