A touch of frugal genius
15 October 2015A “gutsy” Indian approach to innovation is being echoed worldwide by multinational companies adopting “frugal” approaches that help them do business faster, better and cheaper.
Using experts ‘inexpertly’ leads to policy failure, warn researchers
14 October 2015Evidence shows that experts are frequently fallible, say leading risk researchers, and policy makers should not act on expert advice without using rigorous methods that...
Tasmanian Devils and the transmissible cancer that threatens their extinction
14 October 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, T is for Tasmanian Devil and the researchers studying...
The war that fed itself - and the hollow democracy it left behind
14 October 2015A new study using extensive eyewitness accounts re-examines the causes and legacy of Angola's brutal 27-year civil war, once described by the United Nations as...
New insights into the dynamics of past climate change
14 October 2015A new study finds that changing climate in the polar regions can affect conditions in the rest of the world far quicker than previously thought.
Meteorite impact turns silica into stishovite in a billionth of a second
13 October 2015Simon Redfern from the Department of Earth Sciences discusses a study that has recreated the conditions experienced during the meteor strike that formed the Barringer Crater in Arizona.
Tempting fate: how to get a head in embryo development
13 October 2015The journey from a single fertilised egg cell through to a baby delivered crying into the arms of its mother is one of the most...
'Extreme Sleepover #16' – the mystery of a damp bed and other tales
13 October 2015Girija Godbole travels to a remote village in western India to understand the effects of the increasing incidence of land sale on a rural society,...
How hallucinations emerge from trying to make sense of an ambiguous world
12 October 2015Why are some people prone to hallucinations? According to new research from the University of Cambridge and Cardiff University, hallucinations may come from our attempts...
On the eve of the Booker Prize: a sideways look at the literary puff
12 October 2015A literary puff is the promotional blurb that appears on book jackets and publishers’ press releases. Dr Ross Wilson, Faculty of English, discusses the nature...