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With the arrival of three new members to the European Union, universities could be the centrepiece of a common purpose providing Europe with cultural cement.
In this article, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, explains the preparations for the organization's second assessment, to be published in September next year.
Even the best known systems in biology may not be as well-understood as is generally believed, which means that understanding is incomplete and may even be misplaced.
A linkage map for of the cattle genome points to mechanisms of the reassortment of mammalian genes while a new technique raises questions about the structure of gene-starts in chromatin.
Science parks are all the rage, not just as locations for new industries but as means of making universities grander places. What follows is a symposium of sometimes fulsome opinions, often by managers of science parks, of their advantages to researchers.
