Of all the major religions, which in more innocent days were called world religions, Judaism is the most idiosyncratic. Is it a religion, a culture, an ethnicity or a mix? Leora Batnitzky asserts...
Ever since Vera Zasulich shot the governor of St Petersburg in 1878, it has been clear that women could be at least as effective terrorists as men. Since terrorist groups, until recently, have often...
Jon Turney is unconvinced by a theory about how caterpillars grow wings and other transformations
A diverse collection of artworks from the Weimar period focused on sex and death make an astonishing show, Peter Hill says
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionThe First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah SiddonsNational Portrait Gallery, London, until 8 January 2012Because Covent Garden was famous for...
NottinghamKlaus Weber: If you leave me I'm not comingThe works of Klaus Weber, as this wide-ranging exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary (22 October until 8 January 2012) reveals, constantly call...
Our vice-chancellor has described academic suspicions about the significance of David Willetts' regular meetings with private providers of higher education as "absurdly paranoid".He agrees that "on...
Scientists are harnessing the public's power, but they could go further: a partnership would yield academic and political results
Douglas Kell was a whizz at landing grants. Now he is the one handing them out. Paul Jump reports
• Sir Alex Ferguson has received an honorary University of Manchester doctorate to mark his 25 years as manager of Manchester United. Rod Coombs, deputy vice-chancellor, said on 13 October that...
Looking from outside, one might expect that Nigeria, a country of more than 150 million people and endowed with oil reserves, independent from the UK since 1960, would have an educational system that...
Teesside UniversityPaul CrawshawAn academic who analyses risk and uncertainty - from the earthquake in Japan to what we eat and drink - has been appointed director of Teesside University's Social...
Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies
Independent 'citizen scientists' have always existed, says Darrel Ince, and our networked age of fast computing and open access is helping them to flourish - to the greater good of research
Academics from physicists to experts on Scandinavian culture are crafting stand-up comedy routines based on their work. But this is no joke. Matthew Reisz finds that a crowd's laughter is not the...