Letter: Lesbians? Who cares?
Michael Heseltine can doubtless speak for himself, but I am sure that he would be surprised that he has supported our campaign for a statue of Sylvia Pankhurst to be erected outside the Palace of...
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Lab-solutely fabulous
She's Italy's La Professoressa, role model for feminists and cham-pion of cash-starved researchers, but for her, science is there to help the world's poor. Paul Bompard meets Rita Levi Montalcini....
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Behind our love is a lust for new life
In our series on Big Science Questions, Tim Birkhead looks at research in male-female attraction. We have all felt that little zing! when we see someone we fancy, and a much greater ZING! when these...
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Is love just a 'trick' that dissuades us from leaving when logic tells us we really should walk away?
In our series on Big Science Questions, David Buss finds that a lust for love is a universal trait. Why someone falls in love with one person rather than another from the thousands of potential...
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Business buys into deals with diplomacy
As the global economy increasingly thrusts big business into conflict with pressure groups and NGOs, demand has risen for a new academic discipline - 'corporate diplomacy'. Tony Durham reports....
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France still feels the force of his habitus
The legacy of Pierre Bourdieu (right), a giant of sociology, is the rigour with which others continue exposing the brutal truth of life under capitalism, writes Fred Inglis. With the death on January...
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Silent suffering of caring sector
Without action to halt its demographic time bomb, social work will continue to decline, argues Terry Philpot. Who is Mr or Ms Social Worker? The popular image, and one occasionally peddled by...
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Don't worry, you are highly marketable
For academics who find themselves back on the job market, the advice is to rip up your CV and to see yourself as 'a solution', Olga Wojtas explains. As the financial pressures on higher education...
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If only Flash Gordon were Steady Eddie
Is the reason that women are outperforming men academically really due to the switch away from exams to coursework? Ruth Woodfield looks at the evidence. When Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam...
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Men shopping? A load of billiard balls
Katrina Honeyman reveals how one man managed to lure male shoppers out of the closet and take the embarrassment out of a feminine pursuit - thus setting the stage to make the buying of clothes...
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The transplant of tissues and cells: Background and current situation
Brussels, 06 February 2002 Ministerial Seminar on “Therapeutic uses of human tissue and cells in the EU” (6-8 February - Málaga) In 1881, for the first time, a fragment of bone from a human cadaver...
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English Nature calls on Commission to 'think twice' about GM oilseed rape
Brussels, 06 February 2002 A representative of the UK government agency English Nature has called on the European Commission to 'think twice' before authorising the use of genetically modified (GM)...
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EURAB member calls for united research community and a European R&D agency
Brussels, 06 February 2002 Rolf Tarrach, President of the Spanish Council for scientific research and member of the European research advisory board (EURAB), has called for EU academic qualifications...
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Enforcement of BSE controls: Commissioner Byrne answers parliamentary question
Strasbourg, 6 February 2002 Verbatim report for 5 February, Part 2 Byrne, Commission. - Madam President, I am very encouraged by the recommendations in Mr Olsson's report and his support for the...
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OPET events to focus on sustainable energy development
Brussels, 06 February 2002 The Organisation for the promotion of energy technologies (OPET) of Bavaria-Austria will host two seminars on 7 and 8 March as part of World Energy Days 2002. The first...