In 1929, a small Midwest community was the subject of a seminal survey. Stephen Phillips looks at how it became Everytown USA A post-industrial city roughly the size of High Wycombe in the...
In the foyer of Luton University's Postgraduate School stands the statue of a killer. The effigy in Putteridge Bury, a mansion house on the outskirts of the town, is of an Egyptian stag that laid low...
John Gray says neocons should take note of philosopher and historian Leszek Kolakowski, who warns against Marxist utopian fantasies As a political project, Marxism has ceased to matter. The mass...
John Gray says neocons should take note of philosopher and historian Leszek Kolakowski, who warns against Marxist utopian fantasies The master died 122 years ago. He lived in the age of steam; never...
Forestry training has branched out into new ways of seeing the woods and the trees. Jessie Anderson reports From the windows of his cottage in the Cumbrian village of Calthwaite, 63-year-old Jim...
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 Best practice in multi-national programme collaboration (18 Jan. 2006, Cologne) Portals for information dissemination and taxonomies for classification (20-21 Feb. 2006,...
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 Although it is the subject of intense research, no clear picture of what the HIV virus actually looks like was available until now. Research led by Professor Stephen Fuller from...
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 The most famous equation in all of science, E=mc2, appears to be broadly accurate, more than a century after Einstein published his special theory of relativity in 1905....
Brussels, 11 Jan 2006 The number of hectares planted with biotech crops worldwide increased by 9.0 million hectares (22 million acres) in 2005. This is according to new figures published today by...
University pay row threatens fee policy Universities are facing a year of pay strikes that could plunge the Government's flagship top-up fees policy into chaos. Academics are demanding at least one...
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Scientist faked it all, except cloned dog Snuppy With the exception of a single cloned dog, all the major scientific discoveries claimed by Woo Suk Hwang, once the world's leading stem cell scientist...
Brussels, 10 Jan 2006 Having sequenced the human genome, and following recent advances in other areas such as neurobiology and cognitive science, the time is ripe for a Europe-wide 'human mind...
Brussels, 10 Jan 2006 The first session of the 'World congress for freedom of scientific research' will take place in Rome, Italy, from 16 to 18 February. The meeting, promoted by a renowned group of...