European Union countries could face new benchmarks on staff numbers, spending and achievements in research, under proposals discussed in Brussels this week. Research ministers, meeting as The THES...
There is a new Moon on Tuesday, so the sky should be at its darkest. That will be perfect for viewing one of the most dazzling phenomena the heavens can offer - if it turns up. At about 10pm that...
We must not let the battle against terrorism turn into a clash of civilisations, writes Azzam Tamimi These are difficult times for Muslims worldwide, but in particular for those in Europe and America...
It was a turning point in human history, the moment when a group of Levantine farmers first sowed seeds of barley before returning at the end of the growing season to reap their harvest. Scientists...
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors fear an anti-Asian immigration party's success in a Queensland state election could damage their overseas student recruiting drives and are trying to limit the damage. The...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author whose inexact anagram was to become immortal: "My dear Mark, Today...
Paris, 08 February 2002 On 8 February the ESA Director of Earth Observation, Jos¨¦ Achache, signed the contract confirming that Astrium will build the new European environmental and climate satellite...
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
Education and Development
An Introduction to Confucianism . First Edition
Race is a political myth, argues Tukufu Zuberi, and it is time we used racial statistics to prove it The idea of a cause-and-effect relationship between race and social status emerged from...
Financial Times Scientists at North Carolina State University hope to develop better protective clothing by incorporating additives in the fibre rather than as a coating. French government scientists...
The Great Divergence
Pramoedya Ananta Toer has endured prison and had his books banned. But at 75, international recognition has finally beckoned. C. W. Watson reports. Book burnings and raids on libraries have been the...
Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World War