An advance warning system for allergies
Southampton has set up a unit to tackle allergies triggered by medical drugs. Geoff Watts reports Allergy is one of nature's little teases: unpredictable, unproductive and, with strawberries and...
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Pollution may interrupt reefs' rhythm method ...
Oestrogen pollutants in human sewage may be partially responsible for the decline of the world's coral reefs by interfering with their sexual rhythm. Researchers have found evidence that the...
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And give female fish a sexual identity crisis
Female fish are being masculinised by gender-bending pollutants in rivers. The effect, which has been largely overlooked by scientists, seems to be a mirror image of the more commonly recorded...
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Cutting edge
Cooperation between states and international businesses is necessary to create trust in the security of the internet International relations and strategic studies face a dilemma over how to deal with...
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I'm not just a pretty face!
Neanderthal man needed a brain to make tools. So why did he not move on from his daily grind? Geoff Watts meets an archaeologist who is trying to find out Another day, another axe. A quick search for...
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French law releases creative public scientists from the lab
Lionel Jospin's government is encouraging innovation by allowing collaborations between state scientists and industry and providing millions of francs. Jane Marshall reports France's new law to make...
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Ruling gives boost to research into teaching
The rules governing the next research assessment exercise are to be changed to allow academics interested in research into teaching to submit their work on an equal footing with other researchers....
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Australian reforms rejected
MELBOURNE. David Kemp has just suffered one of the worst humiliations ever experienced by an Australian education minister. And it was at the hands of his prime minister and cabinet colleagues....
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Cash for Scottish ideas
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, yesterday urged Scottish universities and research institutes to bid for Pounds 11 million of new funding to commercialise...
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Pounds 3.5 million for arts centres
The Arts and Humanities Re-earch Board is setting up research centres across the United Kingdom, kicking off with up to 15 in 2000-01. Michael Jubb, director of the AHRB, said the move will help to...
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Life in the age of insecurity
In Search of Politics
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My car leaked into the lounge and other popular science stories
Mr Tompkins in Paperback - The New World of Mr Tompkins
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Tinker, tailor... cultural historian
Who Paid the Piper?
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Born under a wandering star
The Star of Bethlehem
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Writing to the real Mr Biswas
Letters Between a Father and Son