Containing cancer
Will the products below increase your chances of getting cancer? Samuel Epstein thinks so. Ayala Ochert reports Here is a sobering thought - on Monday morning, as you breakfast, shower and get ready...
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Collision course to extinction
An asteroid colliding with Earth could wipe out humanity. Alison Goddard reports on research to curb the threat In 1908, an asteroid exploded above the Tunguska area of Siberia with the energy of...
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Goodbye to all that civilisation
Benny Peiser believes that asteroid impacts could account for the collapse of ancient civilisations. It is possible that the virtually simultaneous collapse of the first urban civilisations in the...
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What is this thing called asteroid?
One of the problems with any plan to deflect or destroy an asteroid on a collision course with Earth is that astronomers do not know whether asteroids are rubble or monolithic. Several space missions...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Funding listings are compiled by Sarah Knowles 0171 782 3225 Email:...
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Flower power
(Photograph) - Flower power: Colin Peters, farm manager at the Institute of Arable Crops Research site in Rothemstead, Hertfordshire, surveys a genetically modified crop. Photograph by GEOOFF...
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Osh
Archaeologists excavating what has been tentatively identified as the site of ancient Osh in Kyrgyzstan reported dateable fragments of pottery. Osh will celebrate its 3,000th anniversary in 2001 with...
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Djakarta
Nine anti-government students were detained outside Indonesia's presidential palace for demonstrating without a permit.
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Seattle
The William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation are to merge into a single organisation called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support global health and learning programmes...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Jonathan Weiner highlighted the risks of banning the teaching of evolution in Kansas schools. David J. Tyler Principal lecturer Department of clothing, design and technology...
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Cutting Edge
Fossilised arthropod trackways provide 'palaeo-Polaroids', or snapshots, of the lives of earth's earliest living creatures. Behind the hype and the incredible claims from the "Jurassic Park...
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A measure of scalpel skills
Surgeon Ara Darzi is developing ways to test the dexterity of his theatre peers. Geoff Watts reports. Step aboard a commercial airliner and you can be certain that the skills of the pilot flying it...
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Spacecraft is to study explosions in space
British scientists hope to solve the mystery of gamma bursts soon, writes Alison Goddard. When a burst of gamma rays was detected in the sky in 1967, scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory thought...
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Comments sought as a boost to confidence
Researchers were asked this week to comment on the criteria and working methods for the next research assessment exercise, due for 2001. "There has never been a consultation at this stage before. I...
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RAE puts goodbooks on the back burner
Russell Jones's (above) PhD thesis was shortlisted for a major national prize but his supervisor's prediction that it was unpublishable proved frustratingly accurate. "None of the journals would take...