First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the memoirs of a living statesman: "Apart from life, a strong constitution and an abiding connection...
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Mad reveries find notoriety in limbo
Strange Matters
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Heavenly body count
Planetary Science
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Long on formulae, short on insight
Photonics
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A highly explosive discovery that emerged from banning the bomb
The Biggest Bangs
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Your daily cosmos in full colour
The Universe
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To Copenhagen and far beyond
Quantum - Consistent Quantum Theory
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Socks, shifty splits and Schrodinger
Quantum (Un)speakables
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A touch of clarity in the world of crystals
Structure and Bonding in Crystalline Materials
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Lend an ear to an egg
Nature via Nurture
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Harry potters on, and we Muggle through
The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter - The Science of Harry Potter - Re-reading Harry Potter
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Keeping faith in the old magic amid new repression
Reading Lolita in Tehran
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Academics too often take the view that the strategic goals of their university are nothing to do with them and work instead to their own agendas" - THES , September 12 Shocking. Absolutely shocking...
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Leader: Employers will always be sold on graduate skills
There was something for everyone in this week's two big research reports: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's annual international survey and the Higher Education Policy...
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Swell performance
The UK is storming ahead in the expansion stakes, but the competition is still fierce, warns the OECD. David Jobbins reports The UK's university expansion has been among the fastest in the...