Following the SWOT analysis of our master’s degree program, the next step in our curriculum development plan has been a series of Rating Conferences.Introduced as a tool for evaluating and developing ...

Four months after my open letter calling on the Royal Society to take action over Elon Musk FRS’s breaches of their code of conduct had attracted thousands of signatures from the scientific community, ...

Welcome to Reciprocal Space.. I am Stephen Curry, a Professor of Structural Biology at Imperial College London.Few people know what ‘structural biology’ is but in my case it means I figure out the ...

The ASW organisers had arranged some library tours for delegates and I enjoyed seeing and learning about the history of the Leeds Library – this is a private library that was founded in 1768 with ...

Björn Natthiko Lindeblad: I May B e Wrong ‘Oh, your poor brain’, says Mrs Gee, when she sees the stack of things I really must read; the list of tasks I give myself. Then she passed me this book. Now, ...

is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets. His latest book, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, is out now. His ...

Blog: Athene Donald’s Blog I am Master of Churchill College, Cambridge and a professor emeritus of physics in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge; my research was on soft matter ...

Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 4 (Folio Society Edition).We arrive at last at the Fifth Century and the agonising collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Assailed by ...

In 2022 I consumed devoured read 62 books of various sizes, from slim novels to the multi-volume epic that is Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (which I counted as one book). I haven’t ...

In a famous letter to publisher Milton Waldman, probably written in late 1951 (No. 131 in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien), Tolkien wrote:. Do not laugh! But once upon a time (my crest has long since ...

Cixin Liu: The Dark Forest This is the sequel to The Three-Body Problem, which I read last month.In that book, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie sends a signal into space that alerts another species to human ...

Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol 2) (Folio Society Edition) I bought a handsome 8-volume set of Gibbon’s classic history cheaply on eBay. Attentive readers will note that I ...