Find fun in foliage
The key to happiness lies with plenty of plants, according to researchers at Sheffield and De Montfort universities. The academics, led by Richard Fuller of Sheffield's department of animal and plant...
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In praise of guinea pigs
Guinea pigs, fruit flies and evening primroses are among the classic laboratory organisms honoured for their contribution to science in a new book by Sussex University science historian Jim Endersby...
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Who ate all the pies?
The urban West Midlands is England's obesity capital, according to research from health geographers at Southampton and Portsmouth universities. The research is published in the journal Social Science...
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Rare monkeys reprieve
Scientists involved in saving one of the world's rarest species of monkey have successfully helped to prevent a copper mining company from destroying its rainforest habitat. Mika Peck, an...
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Virgin birth for sharks
Female sharks can reproduce without having sex, an international team of scientists has found. The team, including researchers from Queen's University Belfast, found evidence that sharks can...
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Correction
Tim Luckhurst, professor for journalism and the news industry, Kent University, was former duty editor of the Today programme, not its deputy editor, as reported last week.
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I'm engineering change in girls' aspirations
For many people the archetypal image of an inventor probably lies somewhere between the wild-eyed Doc Brown in the film Back to the Future and the pipe-smoking Trevor Baylis, inventor of the...
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Here, it is an honour to work for nothing
Jason Mitchell reports from Argentina on the plight of 'ad honorem' academics forced into working for free. Next time you feel underpaid, spare a thought for the 32,000 Argentine academics who work...
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World encompassed
American labs attack anti-terror audit US higher education institutions will have to undertake a "burdensome" audit of chemicals in their laboratories under proposed anti-terrorism measures, the body...
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Science's future is an interversity challenge
A truly global scientific world will have a unified research effort focused in a single institution, says Peter Atkins. Universities have always been central to the furtherance of fundamental science...
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Alison Wolf
Did you know that 70 per cent of the workforce of 2020 has already finished compulsory schooling and is, for the most part, already employed? If not, you have been failing to pay attention. For at...
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Rhapsody in reds, whites and crus
Cultivate an appreciation and you'll find that wine can challenge your mind, says Barry Smith. Recent empirical research has confirmed the long-standing view of Bordeaux University that drinking red...
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Blogger aims a very low blow
Aubrey Blumsohn, the campaigner for scientific integrity and prolific blogger who famously parted company with Sheffield University after raising too many public concerns about a drug study he was...
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Unaccustomed as you are...
Help is at hand for academics with a phobia of public speaking and a pathological mistrust of the media. West Media, a consultancy run out of Westminster University's school of media, arts and design...
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A capital suggestion for UCU
Forget pay, bullying and casualisation. One of the hottest topics at the inaugural conference of the University and College Union looks set to be a debate about where the union's headquarters should...