News
Ten years of new universities: an expensive vanity?
Features
Baruch Blumberg: from hepatitis B to astrobiology
Stephen Devereux debates the role of academics in preventing famine
Rewriting the past: David Cannadine, Peter Mandler, Michael Dodson and Tanya Evans look at the changing nature of history at the Anglo-American Conference of Historians
Books
Does 'world music' have more soul than western music? Review of World Music in Context
Focus: economics