Scientists fear NIH budget will hit research
After half a decade of dwindling budgets the US research community celebrated a giant jump in funding last year. Congress and the White House agreed 15 per cent more for the National Institutes of...
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A warm weather warning
Sherwood Rowland has seen his work on the dangers of aerosol sprays result in a worldwide ban. But, he tells Ayala Ochert, he fears it will take an environmental crisis before governments take action...
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Age-old battle continues with true believers
As researchers continue to seek traces of the biblical flood, Tim Cornwell reports on the stand-off between science and religion. In the early 19th century, the days before Charles Darwin and his...
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Blame it on their peers?
The Nature Assumption
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Justice of a leg-up in the social race
The Shape of the River
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So why do anything?
Understanding Human Goods
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A thinker lit by Hapsburg fires
Language and Solitude
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Generation gaps
The Language of Thought - Language and Thought
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Literary philosophy
Kant e l'ornitorinco (Kant and the Platypus)
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel written by a former ambulance driver: "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in...
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Emotion picture show
Art and Emotion
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Prophet warning
Peirce, pragmatism and the Logic of Scripture
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Mothers of intervention
The Future of Human Reproduction
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week The three-part Animal Minds (Saturday 5.55 BBC2). Second part looks at animal emotions and considers whether what...
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The inadvertent healer
Biologist and author Robert Weinberg tells Tim Cornwell how years spent in cancer research are finally about to bear fruit. Robert Weinberg avoids red meat, particularly when it is burnt. While he is...