The Times
In Times2: Queen's Anniversary prizes for higher and further Education (16 pages).
The Independent
One of the world's leading experts in skin cancer has developed a treatment for malignant melanoma, the lethal disease linked to sunbathing, that has shown promising results in early trials.
Eighteen months after condemning evolution as "bad science" and removing it from the school curriculum, the Kansas state board of education has voted to reinstate it at the end of a bruising battle between orthodox educators and religious fundamentalists.
Financial Times
Hopes of an early end to the three-year moratorium on approving new genetically modified crops were dealt a blow yesterday when six countries said they would not lift their block on new products in the foreseeable future.
Daily Telegraph
Babies who continually catch colds may be protecting themselves against asthma by developing immune systems, doctors say today.
Miscellany
The BBC and the Tussauds Group are poise to launch a bid for the Millennium Dome after ministers provoked uproar by throwing out a £125m bid to convert the site into a hi-tech science park. ( Independent, Guardian )
The South African government severely criticised Britain yesterday for luring newly qualified teachers away while Pretoria is trying to repair the damage to education caused by apartheid. ( Daily Telegraph, Guardian )
A "veritable Jurassic Park" has been unearthed by scientists in a remote part of Argentina's Patagonia, giving them a unique insight into life among the dinosaurs 160 million years ago. ( Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail )
Shakespeare would have felt more than a touch of "the whips and scorns of time" if he had been around to collect his royalty cheque from public libraries yesterday. Writers of romances and thrillers remain the most widely read authors in Britain. ( Independent, Guardian )