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An experiment in language change

Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.

Academic writing is often framed as something faculty should simply manage better; when they struggle, the blame is put on the individual academic. But this explanation doesn’t hold, as Rachel Gabriele explains

Suppressing laughter in solemn settings can backfire. Here’s what brain science says about why ‘church giggles’ feel unstoppable.

UKRI’s new funding framework takes a stab at classifying budgets – but doesn’t yet govern research

From first dates to sleeping lovers, these are the paintings that have touched the hearts of our experts.

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

The best conference I have been to in my academic career to date. I really loved the combination of PhD students, post docs/fellows, lecturers and professors during this event. I loved the size of the...

David Gentleman’s brilliant career spans eight decades, from watercolour painting to tube station murals to drawing the Tottenham riots. Here his daughter, the Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman, di...

Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group

Many countries in Europe pay much less for their energy.

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...

Staff deploy infection controls and step up cleaning as cases pass 500 for year to date and after one child dies