Virtually isolated?
Check out students' varying skills in ITand literacy before using the internet indiscriminately as a teaching tool, warns Barbara Hull Many of us in education are well versed in the use of the...
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News in brief
• The entertainment industry has warned US universities that they could face lawsuits if students continue using campus networks to illegally share copyrighted material such as music and movies....
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The informatics man
Mike Fourman is credited with bringing together three of Edinburgh University's departments to work as a single informatics body. He talks to Caroline Davis about the 'science of the 21st century'...
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Picture this...
Scientists are working to collatemillions of images for use in future research. Steve Farrar looks at how technology will make them accessible to all More than 1.75 million species of organism have...
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Advent of the digital test tube
Cambridge's Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics is moving research from the chemistry bench to the IT lab Inside a new pyramid-topped laboratory close to Cambridge city centre, chemists at the...
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The people's librarian
Chris Johnston meets the e-pioneer who is trying to encourage libraries to widen access to unpublished academic work by harnessing the power of the net Brewster Kahle calls the internet the "people's...
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Portal power
Portals are virtual gateways to information sources filtered specifically for the user. Pat Leon looks at why more and more universities are investing in them Three years ago, Craig Gibson, a...
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Global e-university yetto get off the ground
An ambitious joint venture between universities from four continents has had teething problems. Geoff Maslen reports from Melbourne Nearly 18 months after its announcement as the "world's premier...
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AAAS: Brains behind the biggest and the best
Stephen Phillips starts a four-page special on the AAAS with a profile of its head Being president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the umbrella organisation for US science...
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AAAS: Europe hopes la différence will translate into success
Geoff Watts reports on plans for a European conference to rival the AAAS Two fixtures on the calendar of most UK science journalists - if not of a great many professional scientists - are the British...
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AAAS: Ignoring climate will land us in hot water
Climate change will be big at the AAAS conference in Denver next week and the US is likely to come in for much criticism from scientists. "It's very difficult to have a global effort when the number...
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AAAS: Strands of truth twist among the extremes
Half a century after the discovery of DNA's structure, Onora O'Neill asks if we are being blinded by the sensationalism that surrounds genetic advances Lurid examples are a mainstay in discussions of...
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AAAS: 50 years to write the book of life - now we can start to read the text
William Summers looks at the breakthroughs that flowed from knowledge of the double helix Scientists, for the most part, come in one of two persuasions. In the first group are the puzzle-solvers, who...
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AAAS: The epicentre of the rumble in the jungle
Anna Roosevelt has upset traditional thinking about Amazonia's prehistory and its ecosystem, writes Stephen Phillips Anna Roosevelt's findings in the Amazon basin have resonated beyond the confines...
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Sages with no time for Saga
The attention paid to the academy's youngbloods can overshadow those at retirement age or beyond. But Adrian Mourby finds age no bar to valuable scholarship From Botox injections to S Club Juniors,...