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Articles by Matthew Reisz
This sample comes from the laboratory where Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) left a number of glass plates coated with bacteria overnight in 1928. It was this that led him to stumble upon the antibiotic powers of "mould juice" - later known as penicillin - and so make the breakthrough that formed the basis for one of the great revolutions in modern medicine.
Scholars restate the public value of their discipline in age of shrinking mobility. Matthew Reisz writes
This cast reveals the circulation within the heart of a greyhound. It was made by injecting coloured liquid acrylic into structures such as blood vessels and air-filled spaces and then allowing it to harden. When the soft tissue was soaked away, this remarkable map of the blood flow was created.
A lecturer in the subject urges his peers to escape the commercial straitjacket. Matthew Reisz writes
You think your commute is bad? In a tough job market, professional opportunities are taking scholars far from their nearest and dearest. Matthew Reisz asks if today's ideal academic is unencumbered by ties or responsibilities
R&D and philanthropy are at the heart of a Turkish university’s ambitious plans. Matthew Reisz reports
These formidable Victorian women all appear in a photograph album which forms part of the archives of the Association of Head Mistresses (AHM), now held in the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick.
Neuroscientists use illusions to illuminate what's going on inside our heads. Matthew Reisz reports
Year abroad pays rich professional and personal dividends, case studies show. Matthew Reisz writes
'More must be done' to entice UK students to spend time on foreign soil. Matthew Reisz writes
This 19th-century stuffed cyclopic piglet and plaster cast of a rattlesnake - brought to Scotland by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1904 - are among the strange and sometimes shocking natural history treasures of the Bell Pettigrew Museum at the University of St Andrews.
MA/MSc in environmental issues draws on both humanities and sciences, reports Matthew Reisz
Critic calls for legal integration of 'undemocratic' process into EU policy. Matthew Reisz reports
Save all, read all? Matthew Reisz on the archivists devising protocols for preserving born-digital data
Palestinian universities are determined to expand despite limited resources. Matthew Reisz writes
Academics fear that 'provision of teaching will be seriously diminished'. Matthew Reisz writes
The need for further “university-led research” to track the contribution of design to UK businesses and the economy came up for debate at a forum organised by the Design Council last week.
The 'sciart' movement is bridging the gulf between the 'two cultures' that C.P. Snow lamented more than 50 years ago. Matthew Reisz reports from the lab of the imagination, where anything can happen
Sussex unit to investigate ways to keep politicians honest. Matthew Reisz reports
This "flying machine" is suspended from the ceiling of the Athena Building in Teesside University, where it forms part of a suite of 26 pieces called Dream Migration.
A union representing Irish academics has welcomed a landmark legal decision that removes an incentive for universities to employ staff on fixed-term contracts in a bid to avoid larger redundancy pay-offs.
John Gay's celebrated "ballad opera", The Beggar's Opera, was written in 1728. These striking wax figures - of Elsie French as Mrs Peachum and Violet Marquesita as Lucy Lockit - were created by Agatha Walker on the basis of a production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 1920.
