What’s Your Reaction’ WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday asked a federal judge to lift a restraining order that it says could undercut federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
Learning Landscapes, a research project into the relationship between students, lecturers and researchers and the buildings they use, aims to bring a new creativity to campus design Student hostels aren’t hotels”, says Professor Mike Neary, “nor are university campuses business parks.” That, though, is what they have been in danger of turning into over the last decade, says Neary, political …
Political action seems again improbable, but it remains more urgent than ever Climate change now reveals itself on a weekly basis. Scientists this month identified a colony of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries both yellow fever and the dengue virus, in the Netherlands. This African insect had not been seen in Europe for more than 50 years. A few days later US researchers reported that on …
Parched fields revealed a Roman camp in Dorset, a fort in Yorkshire and 60 other sites Dry weeks in early summer have already made 2010 a vintage year for archaeology, English Heritage said yesterday. The conditions allowed hundreds of cropmark sites – created when crops grow at a different rate over buried features – to be seen from the air. A Roman camp near Bradford Abbas, Dorset, was found …
Women at genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancer strongly reduce their chances of developing such diseases by having their breasts, ovaries and fallopian tubes removed, a large study has found. Relatively few women carry inherited mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes but, for those who do, the risk …
Fast becoming a pivotal event in the literary calendar, this is the coveted honour decided by readers of the Guardian books blog. It’s time to do your jury service This year, the fun of complaining about the Man Booker prize has been rather spoiled by the fact that the judging panel appears to have compiled a pretty strong longlist. Disappointingly, nearly all the books appear to be interesting …
Helicopter drops 100,000 poetry bookmarks over city as protest against war Poetry rained from the skies on Saturday night in Berlin as 100,000 bookmarks printed with poems by 80 poets from Germany and Chile were dropped on the city from a helicopter. Lasting for half an hour, the initiative was intended as a protest against war and a message of peace, as well as a celebration of the 200th …
After the death of the great Edwin Morgan, who will be the next Scots makar’ The appointment of the next national poet of Scotland will be, according to a Scottish government spokeswoman, “considered in due course”, but she remained silent on how, when and by whom. Most of the likely candidates were in fact reading at the Edinburgh international book festival’s tribute event to Morgan on Monday …
It’s not as attractive as the iPad, but Amazon’s formerly derided e-reader is cheap and, most important, efficient The newest version of the Kindle e-reader is out. And guess what’ “Due to strong customer demand,” says the Amazon website, “Kindle is temporarily sold out. Order now to reserve your place in the queue… orders placed today are expected to dispatch on or before 17 September.” This …
