Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
10 March 2016Some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts – texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding – will go on display...
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Some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts – texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding – will go on display...
A team of experts has pieced together the architectural context of two treasures of Renaissance art in the National Gallery collection. The research behind the 3D-visualisation combines traditional and...
Dr David Gosling (Faculty of Divinity) discusses his time on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, his encounters with the Taliban and why education is the best weapon...
Michelle Oyen (Department of Engineering) discusses how we could reduce our dependence on "dirty" materials like steel and concrete.
Pablo Monsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discusses obesity and the influence of socioeconomic circumstances in shaping food choices.
Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies) discusses the Government's Prevent strategy and counter-extremism in Britain.
A web-based machine language system solves crossword puzzles far better than commercially-available products, and may help machines better understand language.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so-called ‘naïve’ pluripotent...
Lucy Wrapson reports on her fieldwork analysing the curious cave paintings found on Isla de Mona, in the Caribbean, and their equally enigmatic artists.
The earliest example of an organism living on land – an early type of fungus – has been identified. The organism, from 440 million years...