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Sarah Wise on how the insanity plea developed in English law and why ¡®homicidal mania¡¯ became acceptable to experts

Ministry hopes to increase quality of doctorates

University of East Anglia chief says scholars cannot assume that their research findings are ¡®self-evident¡¯

Novo Nordisk to invest ?115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit

Universities need to open up communication channels to help retain women in science, says study

Terence Kealey, former head of the University of Buckingham, tells É«ºÐÖ±²¥ it¡¯s sometimes helpful to think of scientists as ¡®lying bastards¡¯

Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist reflects on the perceptions and realities of how big breakthroughs are made

Attributes of top scientists mapped in new paper

New international consortium tackles major energy challenge

Spanning 200,000 years of human trading, this study considers the influence of technology and the fallout of global interconnectedness, says Juliet Webster

A study probes a silent global epidemic: addiction to prescription medication, says David Healy

Book of the Week: lack of effective antitrust oversight leaves us at the mercy of digital platforms, says Julia Powles

Scholars reflect on ethics and mechanics of a possible ¡®sex tech¡¯ future

Toronto and Pennsylvania researchers arrange events to preserve environmental data

Biochemist named in analysis of US highly cited papers claims it is not his main contribution to science

An expert¡¯s personal guide helps Helen Bynum to get better acquainted with the fascinating ubiquitous microorganisms that live on and in us

Book of the week: The scrutiny to which two intellectuals submit their relationship fascinates Shahidha Bari

Alternative metrics find that research from Barack Obama received the most online attention this year

President of Johns Hopkins University says ¡®deeply poisonous politics¡¯ is also harming the system

From atoll to reef, a coleopterist fears we may not know what we¡¯ve got until it¡¯s gone, says Jules Pretty

A biologist who spent 10 years in the African sun seeking to explain the wild horse¡¯s pelage is in a class of his own, says Tim Birkhead

President Meric Gertler reflects on Canadian universities¡¯ potential to ¡®capitalise¡¯ on political climate in competitor nations

Many early career researchers have ¡®not gone to the library for years¡¯, according to report

As we cannot cut the cords tethering us to tech, we must fully grasp the connection, says John Gilbey

A study focused on Singapore¡¯s Biopolis centre concentrates on various global ¡®currents¡¯ in bioscience, says Flora Samuel

Study looks at how gender preconceptions are formed at primary school level

UK universities can now ¡®feel confident¡¯ in recruiting postgraduate students for 2017-18, says RCUK chair

US study finds biomedical PhDs from certain ethnic minorities are less likely to understand the ¡®hidden¡¯ rules of succeeding in science

Book of the week: A study of our leviathan appetite for seafood dares to go deep and recovers pearls, says Philip Hoare

Tristan Bekinschtein lauds a Nobel laureate¡¯s fusion of art interpretation and analysis with the internal mechanisms by which we see works of art

Are our mental faculties really too unevolved to keep us afloat in an ocean of digital distraction? asks Shane O¡¯Mara

For British science to thrive rather than just survive, EU partnerships and global recruitment remain key to fruitful collisions of concepts, says Ian Walmsley

Five top European academics offer advice on how to mentor, manage and expand a research team

Greatly expanded satellite programme should provide vital new data

Minority groups still not represented at professorial level by 2080, study suggests

Researcher sent thousands of emails trying to get paper published

London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs

Researchers are ¡®cautiously optimistic¡¯ about review set up by Justin Trudeau¡¯s government to improve relations with the scientific community

President of VU Amsterdam says it is not enough for institutions merely to say they are valuable

Prime minister pledges ¡°real terms increases¡± in investment and new fund to back emerging technology

Do mobile phones give you brain tumours? Don¡¯t ask the people in white lab coats, says Jennifer Rohn

¡®Irreversible¡¯ damage to UK science from a hard Brexit will eclipse any harm caused in the US by a Trump presidency, says new Nobel laureate

One year shaved off time to degree under new national framework

Make appointing a chief scientific adviser on the EU ¡®a priority¡¯, Westminster committee tells the government

Work to attract more women into UK university engineering departments will be undermined by ¡®beyond belief¡¯ changes to A levels, senior academics claim

The next US president¡¯s scorn for American research bodies and his anti-climate change stance has worried many scientists

Book of the week: New sources yield fresh insights and oversights by the father of psychoanalysis, says Janet Sayers

Book of the week: A memoir wrestles with moral questions about using animals in research. Kristin Andrews writes

A clear-eyed study of shiny and new inventions calls for better oversight, says Richard Joyner

Marcus Chown on a deeply political study that explains why inequality exists and that while ending it will not be easy, it is not impossible

Leading scientist savages the widespread hostility to serious scientific evidence

Blow your mind by travelling to the bizarre yet beautiful frontier of physics, says Tara Shears

Five engineers set out why engineering is part of our everyday lives and what universities can do to change the way it is taught

New Hong Kong centre for leading Swedish university will aim to build medical research links across continents

In liberal arts and technical disciplines alike, we must help students develop a quantitative mindset, argues Anthony Monaco

Starting out as a principal investigator in your postdoctoral institution can make sense, but you need to make sure you stand apart from your former boss, says Laura Piddock

Cait MacPhee delves in to the stories we use to explain the simple and complex world around us

Saul Perlmutter tells É«ºÐÖ±²¥ World Academic Summit that there is a ¡®fundamental misunderstanding¡¯ of the purpose of research

Academic journal editor-turned-lecturer Hilary Hamnett explains the most common reasons why papers are rejected