Martian visitors killed our dog
Is there life on Mars, albeit in a primitive form, and could it make the journey to Earth? It may already be here, reports Martin Ince. Frequent flyers say that a good landing is one you can walk...
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Dying for a good fry-up
Increasing evidence points to the link between diet and disease. But why are we not taking heed, asks Kay-Tee Khaw. The major health challenge in industrialised societies with ageing populations is...
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On a clear day you can see to the multiplex
The citizens of Oxford may soon see new bingo halls, bowling alleys and car parks among their dreaming spires. Lucy Hodges asks whether colleges keen to profit from their land are responsible. Oxford...
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Showdown over FE jobs
Ninety jobs are to go at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology following the failure of a recovery plan worked out last year. The majority of the redundancies are expected to be compulsory....
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Call for CUP boycott
A leading Harvard anthropologist is calling for top academics to boycott Cambridge University Press. Their move comes as Royal Anthropological Institute president Roland Littlewood and two more US...
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Who gets paid most
Vice chancellors and medics may dominate the top end of the pay tables but the highest paid academic in Britain is a faculty member at London Business School, who pulled in between Pounds 150,000 and...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a novelist immersed in H2O: "Stan Booth shuts off at last the bucket-ladder engine. The sudden, dripping quiet strikes like a knell. 'Someone best explain.' We trip...
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Speaking Volumes: The Effects of Mass Communication
Colin Seymour-Ure on Joseph T. Klapper's The Effects of Mass Communication . For an academic starting a university job in the mid-1960s, it would have been professional suicide to trade as a lecturer...
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The influence of valence
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II: A Review of the Literature 1982-94. Editors-in-chief: Edward W. Abel, F. Gordon A. Stone and Geoffrey Wilkinson. Pergamon Press. £2,795.00 (14 volumes)....
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Strutting into infamy
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany - Albert Speer - The Italian Navy in World War II - Fascist Italy - Italian Fascism 1919-45 - Italy and the Wider World 1860-1960 - Mussolini's Soldiers - Fascism
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Super colour fractal optics in expert doses
Colour and Light in Nature
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A lust for life and base elements
The Same and Not The Same
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Crystallised ideas
Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth
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A complexity beyond mere memory
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
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Catalysts converted
Bioinorganic Chemistry