Reaching for the stars is the ultimate challenge
Organization at the Limit
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Get a sort of life at your nine to five
Working Below the Surface
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Keep faith out of the limelight
Multicultural Politics
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Unheeded cries of a haunted, helpless witness
Shake Hands with the Devil
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Attack of the 20ft boffins: evil geniuses of the screen
Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema
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The battle fought below no man's land
Beneath Flanders Fields
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Script doctors' blunders mar valuable texts
Misconceived typography spoils John Smith's delight in a collection of Sanskrit classics accessible to modern readers The Clay Sanskrit Library Edited by Richard Gombrich The Birth of Kumára By...
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A halfway heaven
While Canada's undergraduate system mirrors that of the US, its funding is closer to the UK's - and, says Alex Usher, research institutions are reaping the benefits It may be a cliche, but the old...
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Bring in the foreign legion
Philip Fine reports on how two universities are making their mark in the competitive market for international staff and students Multicultural Montreal and Vancouver are luring academics looking for...
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Tending to the great experiment
Democracy is an evolving spirit that needs careful nurturing. And to do this, says Stephen J. Toope, Canada is dipping into its crucibles of imagination to spark debate and share ideas There is much...
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Big dose of Can-do
Canada's universities are topping global tables and money is flowing in. Over the next few pages, Stephen Strauss takes a look at some of their cutting-edge projects The astronomers and space...
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Exploring Mars on Planet Earth
What do Canada and Mars have in common? The short answer is the huge area that exists above the tree line and is commonly known as the Arctic. While historically the Arctic has been of crucial...
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An eye on big results with small price tags
One of Canadian research's claims to fame is that it has been forced to learn how to do big science on a small budget (particularly compared with the US). A classic example is what its developers...
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Join the dots in a spray-on solar future
How about laptops and MP3 players that charge themselves? Or cheap, non-polluting solar cells borrowed from the domain of space satellites and used as everyday energy solutions? Ted Sargent, a 32-...
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Great minds think anew
Brilliance is a group effort at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, says Chaviva Hosek Human ingenuity has devised formulas, algorithms and operating manuals for all manner of wondrous...