Spore carriers of the floral army
The Natural History of Pollination
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Survival of the myopic
Plan and Purpose in Nature
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The insect in all of us
The Shape of Life
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Hirsute cousins on the brink
Great Ape Societies
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Start of history at the cutting edge
Biotechnology
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Man and superman
The Natural Science of the Human Species
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from one half of a famous and Nobel double act: "In the summer of 1955, I arranged to join some friends who were going into the Alps." Entries should be submitted...
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Awards
Council for British Archaeology. The Archaeologist of the Year award was presented to John Hunter, professor of ancient history and archaeology at the University of Birmingham, at the National Museum...
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Chairs
University of Leeds. Robert Mueller has been appointed to the first full-time NHS consultant post in clinical genetics; Allan Fordy, reader in applied mathematics, personal chair in nonlinear...
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Honorary degrees
University of Kent at Canterbury. DLitt: Robert Cohan, founding artistic director of London Contemporary Dance and its school; Paul Ackford, rugby correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph and editor of...
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Exchanges
The European Commission is seeking bids for the latest round of its innovative transatlantic student exchange schemes. The five-year project, launched last year to promote understanding between the...
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Bath paid 'unusual' fees
Financial mismanagement of a Department for Education and Employment contract at Bath University included "unjustified" and "unusual" fee payments of more than Pounds 178,000 to three administration...
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The pioneering biochemist who became an entrepreneur
Graham Lawton talks to the scientists who have founded companies and turned their research into gold The first spin-off company in Oxford University's 800-year history was formed in 1988 by...
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Victims of the silent minority
Labour is so far ahead in the polls that the party will probably win the general election. But the pollsters will struggle to predict the majority because the problems that tripped them up in 1992...
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Teaching the government to think
William Plowden believes a Labour administration should exploit the nation's intellectual capital by drafting academics into Whitehall Not quite 30 years ago Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative...