“It’s not worth me having a long-life lightbulb”: Attitudes to death among the very old
05 April 2016Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and...
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Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and...
Major epidemics such as the recent Ebola outbreak or the emerging Zika epidemic may be difficult to forecast because of our inability to determine whether...
Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the Wall of Death world record attempt and how a motorcycle can ride around a vertical wall.
Andy Martin (Department of French) discusses the "magic potion" for writing a thriller.
A new University of Cambridge research project is set to shed light on the history of writing in the ancient world, and explore the longlasting relationship between...
A new method of implementing an ‘unbreakable’ quantum cryptographic system is able to transmit information at rates more than ten times faster than previous attempts.
Researchers have observed the ‘fingerprint’ of a mysterious new quantum state of matter in a two-dimensional material, in which electrons break apart.
New Cambridge ‘crime harm index’ published today quantifies true cost of crime: damage caused to victims and society. Experts call on UK government to adopt low-cost metric...
Immigrant groups experience a high incidence of mental illness. Hannah Jongsma (Department of Psychiatry) is looking at data from an international study of the distribution...
The trappings of violence were embedded into the culture of 16th century Europe. Victoria Bartels, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, has conducted...