Science strategy calls for £3bn investment
The government's strategic plan for funding the large facilities essential for "big science" will require an investment of £3 billion over the next decade or so. The figure, from the Office of...
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Nanotech 'won't suffer GM fate'
The government is determined to prevent nanotechnology becoming a media scare story to rival that of genetic modification, science minister David Sainsbury has told The THES. Lord Sainsbury spoke out...
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Findings: Dissection was soul-searching
Leonardo da Vinci's work on human anatomy has been greatly misunderstood, according to new research. He cut up cadavers not only better to understand how the body works but also to search for the...
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How to heal brake squeal
From Porsche 911s to ageing Minis, no car is immune to the irritation of squeaky brakes, but now US engineers may have come up with a low-cost solution, writes Natasha Gilbert. Engineers at the...
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Bosnia lays its bones to rest
Slowly, precisely, gently, Laura Yazedjian lays the earthy, off-white bones out on the cold steel table, trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle. This is no innocent pastime: the pieces of the puzzle are...
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Angry medic doles out top marks to all
A medical professor at Bari University in southern Italy has given all his students top marks in their examinations in a protest against the favouritism endemic in Italian medical schools. Angered by...
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Protestmakes splash
Eight archaeologists last week plunged into the Seine from a bridge in Paris in a mock mass suicide to protest against reforms they claim will endanger archaeological research and destroy their...
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Qatar's Iraq gesture challenges US grip
A tiny Gulf state is to challenge US universities' domination of the rebuilding of Iraqi higher education. Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Abdullah Al-Misnad, first lady of Qatar and Unesco's special envoy...
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NZ could limit Maori intake
Spectacular growth by a Maori higher education institution may be dramatically reversed as a result of a New Zealand government initiative to control the rise in student numbers. Under a plan...
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Netting juicy flies of science
Galileo's Finger
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The divine proportion of pineapples
The Golden Ratio
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The fight for America's 'Serengeti'
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Changes that cost the earth
Making Global Trade Work for People - A World without Walls
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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 feminist short story about madness: "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and...
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Travellers' spicy tales of slaves and silks
Origins of the European Economy