Putting double helix in its place
Designs for Life
Designs for Life
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...
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...
Some Time with Feynman
Some Time with Feynman
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...
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...
Who Wants to Be a Scientist?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you are a postdoc scientist looking to enhance your career prospects, the United States could be a good place to start. Although the United States is one of the easier foreign countries for...
Michael North reports on the opportunities for academic writers to reach a popular readership and asks established authors for their top tips. The philosopher A. C. Grayling recalls that in the 1980s...