Enter the Dark Would and let your imagination run free
New learning space at University of Warwick aims to let students and academics explore issues in a more creative and curiosity-driven fashion

New learning space at University of Warwick aims to let students and academics explore issues in a more creative and curiosity-driven fashion

Cases underscore concerns about use of younger researchers’ work by senior colleagues without permission

Researchers must tell a good tale about their work without skewing the science, Cait MacPhee says

A highly readable study traces how both women became part of cultural and political networks that shaped the 20th century, writes Ulrike Zitzlsperger

The question of whether fictional representations of the past can offer as much insight as scholarly histories is tackled with verve, says Philip Kemp

Inequality in income lowers the life expectancy of everyone in society, says Marcus Chown

Richard Joyner on a remarkable but forgotten chemist

Lisa Hopkins on a defining time in the Bard’s career

From living rent-free to Madoff’s fraud, a study of scams forces us to face our sins, says Dick Hobbs

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Nicholas Till on how his love for the Czech composer led to his bringing back more than LPs from Soviet-dominated Prague

Are the continent’s for-profits exploiting students or have they helped to widen access?, asks Chris Havergal