Insecticide: Christopher O'Toole
(Photograph) - Insecticide: Christopher O'Toole, entomologist at the University Museum in Oxford, has just published a book, Alien Empire, exploring the lives of insects and how they affect humans....
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On the trail of Einstein's wave
British and German astronomers are joining forces to build a device to detect gravitational waves, one of the few predictions by Einstein that has so far eluded confirmation. Gravity waves are...
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Danger in appliance of science - Klug
Royal Society president Aaron Klug has warned the Government against over-centralisation in setting priorities for the science base. Sir Aaron said this week that the over-emphasis by Government on...
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Cut to the quick
The search for cuts is reaching new heights at the Open University where noticeboards are carrying an advertisement for the post of guillotine operative.
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Cold snap
Temperatures in the Heriot-Watt University lecture theatre housing the conference remained stubbornly icy, much to the astonishment of delegates who sent the following message to the conference...
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OU favours firm approach
Business school executives at the Open University are introducing company-style seminars in a move which could make the good old tutorial a thing of the past. This summer, the 1,250 first-stage...
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Labour leak backs Dearing on 16-19
A Labour government will accept the bulk of proposals expected in Sir Ron Dearing's report on 16-19 qualifications, a leaked party document shows. Sir Ron is due to report on March and Labour is also...
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Guildhall set to axe 84 jobs
London Guildhall University is set to axe 84 jobs and freeze pay for a year in an attempt to secure its survival, writes Huw Richards. The cuts, including 23 academic posts - eight at head of...
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Forthright
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has astounded and infuriated vice chancellors and academics by insisting there is no causal relationship between funding and quality. He pulled no punches...
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Nail vanish
(Photograph) - Nail vanish: Rebecca Crawford of the physics and astronomy department at the University of Glasgow proves a point about the physics of pressure at the start of SET96, national science...
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Darwin lecturer is swept into the CUP row
Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt is one of eight lecturers who have become embroiled in the row about Cambridge University Press's celebrated non-publication of a book about Greek anthropology, writes...
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Campus search for fundamentalists
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat this week took steps to clamp down on the activities of Muslim fundamentalists in the universities and colleges of Gaza and the West Bank. As Palestinian police...
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Mystic Percy
Astronomer Percy Seymour explains to Alan Thomson the link between the earth's magnetic field and our genes. When Hamlet told Horatio that there were more things in heaven and earth than man could...
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''Madam, how dare you distort, desecrate and defile the English language...''
Jean Aitchison documents the furious reaction to her Reith lectures on language. Madam, How dare you distort, desecrate and defile the English language as you did in your recent Reith lecture . . ."...
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Cleopatra needled
The Afrocentric theory that Ancient Egypt not Greece is the cradle of civilisation is under attack. Since the 19th century, black American thinkers have treasured the notion of Egypt as the African...