Pests tune out
Insects can side-step pest control methods, says David Bradley
Unions condemn ‘divisive’ listing website
Teaching leaders and the government have condemned as divisive a new website that offers to list schools' workers who have been cleared by the criminal records bureau (CRB).
Great pretenders
Television: While greatness is thrust upon some unlikely Britons, Donatella Versace's stature is in no doubt. Just ask her.
Please keep that planet clean
We must not take microbes to other planets, let alone bring any back, writes Duncan Steel
E-learning
Whether studying for an MBA or finding out how a car works, learning online is a serious business, writes Chris Moss
It’s a wrap for moving image museum
The British Film Institute yesterday confirmed that the Museum of the Moving Image, once its award winning £14.5m project on the South Bank in London, will not be rebuilt.
Web warfare
Academics who criticise Israeli actions against the Palestinians are being targeted by computer hackers. Lawrence Davidson looks at a web war now raging in the UK and the US
It’s the hard-luck software
Freeserve users who think they are on a flat-fee deal can get a nasty surprise when the phone bill arrives. And, Phillip Inman reports, no one knows why.
Auntie, the school bully
The BBC's commercial rivals have asked the culture secretary to block 'unfair' BBC plans to offer free educational aids online, writes John Cassy.
Gerald Thompson
Pioneer of filming plants and small animals.
Man of steel
Christopher Reeve won't be on his feet for his 50th birthday, as he'd hoped. He tells Oliver Burkeman why George Bush must take some of the blame.
Were the lunar landings faked?
This week Buzz Aldrin, 72, punched a man who suggested that the missions to the moon were a hoax. But does anyone still believe that old chestnut? Yes indeed, finds Stuart Jeffries.
Wish you weren’t here
Chris Petit assesses a peculiarly English approach to porn, as revealed in Victoria Coren and Charlie Skelton's Once More, with Feeling, the journal of a blue movie
Saving for the future
If libraries are to take internet archiving seriously, how should they select the material they save for posterity?