Research articles

Compromise is a major unifying thread in the fabric of contemporary thought.

The twentieth century was made in Budapest.

A perennial image of life, history and enlightenment.

Stem cells generate new possibilities for research and therapy.

The upper reaches of academe remain stubbornly inaccessible to women.

The scientific benefits of eating cheese before bedtime.

Untestable ecological theory won't help solve environmental problems.

No news about cancer prevention is good news.

Linnaeu's marginal jottings created order out of botanical chaos.

The discovery of the stratosphere laid the foundations of geophysics.

Or honour without profits?

Vitalism was an attempt to reconcile rationality with a sense of wonder.

The Japanese invader that's good for you.

An Elizabethan experimentalist and spirited foe of pseudoscience.

Why soil — and soil science — matters.

What links Aristotle, William Blake, Darwin and GM crops?

An agenda for biology that's in its second century — and still going strong.

Science needs a new breed of Renaissance man and woman.

John Gaddum did much to define what it means to be a pharmacologist.

Nuclear power has taken a meandering route, but it is here to stay.