A democratic cacophony
23 October 2015India is home to one of the most vibrant, engaged and mystifying democracies on the planet. Cambridge academics, across a wide range of disciplines, are...
Plague in humans ‘twice as old’ but didn’t begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA reveals
22 October 2015New research dates plague back to the early Bronze Age, showing it had been endemic in humans across Eurasia for millennia prior to the first...
Calls vs. balls: monkeys with more impressive roars produce less sperm
22 October 2015Evolutionary ‘trade-off’ between size of throat and testes discovered in howler monkeys furthers Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and corresponds to mating systems: males with...
Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas
22 October 2015Rebecca Merkelbach (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic) discusses the monstrous heroes of Scandinavian mythology and literature.
The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake
22 October 2015Ulinka Rublack, Professor of Early Modern European History, discusses the reputation of astronomer Johannes Kepler and his mother Katharina, and the criminal trial for witchcraft...
What is a unicorn’s horn made of?
21 October 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge’s connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, U is for Unicorn. Despite being notoriously...
… dot, dot, dot: how the ellipsis made its mark
21 October 2015We avoid them in formal writing but they pepper our emails … In 'Ellipsis in English Literature', Dr Anne Toner explores the history of dots, dashes...
From Chinese milk to Indian chocolate, behind the world’s fast-expanding markets
21 October 2015Khaled Soufani (Cambridge Judge Business School), Mark Esposito (Grenoble Ecole de Management and Harvard University) and Terence Tse (i7 Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness, ESCP...
Man with a Bouquet of Plastic Flowers
20 October 2015Almost 40 years have passed since Bhupen Khakhar painted one of the most iconic paintings in the history of Indian modern art. Dr Devika Singh...
Not a drop to drink
19 October 2015A major research collaboration is looking at how small towns in the hills of India and Nepal are coping with increasing demand for water: who...