Towards a European strategy for particle physics
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 Concerned that the long timescale of particle physics experiments and the complexity of associated research programmes are delaying the advancement of particle physics, the...
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Commission to invest 151 million euro in mobile and wireless systems research
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 The Commission has provided details of the retained project proposals following the fourth Information Society Technologies (IST) call of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6),...
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Lecture on Climate change by Guy Brasseur, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, discussion moderated by Peter Sterm, Senior Editor of Science Magazine
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 A lecture on 'Climate in the 21st century: how severely will it change?' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 23 November. Organised by the European Parliament's Scientific...
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Today's news
Psychiatrist faces plagiarism charge Britain's most ubiquitous psychiatrist was yesterday at the centre of a plagiarism row after it emerged that substantial portions of an article he had written for...
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Riotous turns in historical cliffhanger
Gunpowder Plots - Remember, Remember the Fifth of November - Gunpowder
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Good colonialist with a distaste for empire
Woolf in Ceylon - The Village in the Jungle
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The others among the most ordinary Britons
We Europeans? Mass-Observation, "Race" and British Identity in the 20th Century
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Brief game of bland man's bluff
The Intellectual
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Not waving but drowning in a deep lake of inexplicability
Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000
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Precision gained
Understanding Social Change
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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 work by a mathematician with a theory of consciousness: "There was a great gathering in the Grand...
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Today's news
Medics 'livid' over research cash failure Scientists have reacted with anger after it was revealed that the Government's medical research body last year failed to spend 10 per cent of its budget...
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Lecturers who failed to fill room fined £500
A London university has taken drastic - some would say draconian - steps to stop academics booking rooms and then failing to use them. In an attempt to ensure that staff use space efficiently, City...
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Fury at research underspend
Academics and MPs reacted with anger this week to news that research councils had accidentally underspent by millions of pounds, while top-rated research proposals are being turned away. The Medical...