Life's lethal quality control
A US businessman's claims to have found the unseen architect of evolution fell on deaf ears. But after a string of coincidences, some scientists are starting to listen. Geoff Watts reports One day in...
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Time bomb with a longer fuse
Natasha Loder asserts that we have something to learn from the United States ("Just what the postdocs ordered", THES, February 25). Despite scandalous levels of casualisation in United Kingdom...
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On the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Caroline Baillie Age: Definitely five, sometimes 100. Job: Deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education...
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Putting double helix in its place
Designs for Life
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Union puts boot into 'celebrity' culture
Phil Baty reports from the AUT's annual conference in Scarborough A football-style transfer market of "superstar" academics is damaging university research by creating a lower league of underpaid and...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Darren Reynolds Age: 34 Job: Senior lecturer in environmental science/health at the University of the West of England...
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Wise words to Klingon to
Some Time with Feynman
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Wise words to Klingon to
Some Time with Feynman
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Analysis: Co-authors should play greater role in ensuring validity of research
The responsibility of co-authors of collaborative academic papers has emerged as a key issue in the wake of the Bell Labs research fraud scandal, writes Steve Farrar. The independent investigative...
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Why I believe that all UK research output should be online
Stevan Harnad Professor of cognitive science Department of electronics and computer science Southampton University. Unlike journalists or book authors, researchers receive no royalties or fees for...
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Route map for aspiring lieutenants
Who Wants to Be a Scientist?
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Scientific credit where it's due
J. Doyne Farmer disputes the integrity of a fellow academic's bestseller. Although Steven Wolfram's recent book, A New Kind of Science , has received an unusual level of attention in the popular...
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Spring in Paris, and revolution's in the air again
France's intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports. If you ask any wistful romantic about his image of the French intellectual, he will probably paint you a...
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Spring in Paris, and revolution's in the air again
France's intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports. If you ask any wistful romantic about his image of the French intellectual, he will probably paint you a...
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Please don go breaking my heart
Stupid Cupid! Steve Farrar relates the pain of academic couples whose love must be a long-distance one The journey from Wales to Sheffield takes some four hours by train. It is not an especially...