Universities need more money. The Taylor report, published today by Universities UK, sets out figures showing the sector is underfunded by many hundreds of millions of pounds a year. And it talks...
Lattice Gas Hydrodynamics
Microhardness of Polymers
Archaeology and Language
The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...
Liquid Crystals
Accident... A Life Preventing Them in Industry
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Romantic writer who said her novel was as "unromantic as a Monday morning": " Of late years, an...
A Tribble's Guide to Space
In this month's Oxford Amnesty Lectures, Peter Singer argues for a United Nations consisting only of countries dedicated to democracy and preservation of human rights. For much of the past century it...
David Calvey took grave risks to research the life of a club bouncer. He spoke to Adam James. Dedicated clubbers will remember the ecstasy-energised era of "Madchester" in the 1990s. Some might also...
Theatre is helping Brazil's prison population to change... or escape for a while. Paul Heritage writes. The Brazilian composer Tom Jobim, who made the world swoon to the passing of that girl from...
Roy King has witnessed the inhuman conditions of the Brazilian prison where rioting inmates were killed this week. He spoke to Anne McHardy. This week's events in the House of Detention at Carandiru...
When universities link up with institutions abroad, they can get more than they bargained for. Matthew Chapman reports. When it comes to promoting their courses, United States higher education...
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