Biotechnology, and nanotechnology in particular, "raises moral questions that are not simply difficult in the familiar sense but are of an altogether different kind". So quotes, approvingly, Donal O'...
What a happy task to be asked to choose a definitive title from one's "personal canon". I recommend Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol. Written in 1944, this little book about the 19th-century Russian writer...
Kevin Fong reaches an uncomfortable realisation that science communicators need to improve
A brilliant but troubled young physicist, in the same league of achievement as Einstein, boards a ship in Palermo on a spring night in 1938, passport and cash in hand. He is soon assumed dead,...
It's a very contemporary scenario. Young soldiers face a hostile and alien environment full of Muslim insurgents with inadequate equipment. Military aims are unclear. On a remote front line, mission...
This dried lizard, stuck to the pages of a letter, was posted by the 12-year-old William Rathbone VIII (1880-1941) to his elder sister "Tot" (Elena).Writing from his boarding school in Broadstairs,...
Organisation's full title unpopular with rank and file, but rebrand is unlikely. John Morgan reports
Warning that incoherent online offerings could cause reputational damage. Hannah Fearn writes
United StatesIvy League cutbacksFinancial hardship has prompted an Ivy League institution to lay off staff and cut back on scholarships for students. Dartmouth College has announced that it will axe...
Communist influence is non-negotiable for UK's Chinese outposts. Melanie Newman writes
Tom Ford's glossy foray into film has moments to admire, not least its leading man, writes Duncan Wu
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: D. LoefflerInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £128,335Eigenvarieties for compact reductive groupsAward winner: S. YangInstitution...
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: The bully has landed
A specialist in emergency medicine at the University of Sheffield has become the first female academic in the UK to take up a professorship in the subject. Suzanne Mason, from Sheffield's School of...
Institutions and sector agencies should be more open with data to enable informed choices, says Paul Marshall