Can you manage in a vacuum?
The Titans of Saturn
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who started out as an actress: "When the fire curtain had been lowered and the doors were...
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Forget about quarks, read my wife's blog
Fantastic Realities
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Low on flavour, big on impact
The State of the Universe
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Digging deep to the roots of the power
The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved
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The hunt for memorable proof
Letters to a Young Mathematician
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Answers on the back of a beer mat
Introduction to Circle Packing
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Mightier than the sword
Plato's Republic - Darwin's Origin of Species - Thomas Paine's Rights of Man - The Qur'an - Marx's Das Kapital
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Get your wig on, for science's sake
When Ian Walker donned a long black wig and cycled around town pretending to be a woman, he was upholding a long and proud tradition of academics who suffer for their research. Dr Walker, a lecturer...
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Experts: access policy futile
Hefce report questions value of costly initiatives and argues for open entry to university, writes Claire Sanders. Universities would need to scrap entry requirements to make any real headway in...
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'The collection of Darwin's letters opens a window on Victorian life'
Jim Secord relishes the prospect of his role at the Darwin Correspondence Project, which manages 15,000 letters. An enduring fascination with Charles Darwin that began with a postgraduate study of...
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On the move...
* John Turner , formerly dean of science, engineering and the built environment at London South Bank University, has been appointed pro vice-chancellor at Portsmouth University. * Paul Seawright ,...
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Not so clever, are you?
Human cells are intelligent, sentient organisms that talk to each other, according to new research that shatters prevailing scientific thought and could spark a revolution in biology. At present,...
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Suicide don under 'huge stress' in job
Universities urged to review plans to outsource support services as inquest hears of work pressures leading up to academic's death. Tony Tysome reports. Universities were urged to bolster staff...
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Prepare or risk reputation, warns journalist who exposed fraud
Universities that have not prepared themselves to deal with cases of academic fraud risk seriously damaging their reputation, an award-winning medical broadcaster has warned. And a key preventive...