Portrait of Andreas Eberhard Rauber (1575/ around 1700); Barbershop in ‘The Book of Trades’ (‘Das Ständebuch’), Frankfurt am Main, 1568; portrait of Lucas Cranach the Elder

A very hairy story

07 November 2016

Beards are back in fashion. But today’s hipster styles convey rather different  messages to the hair men cultivated in the early modern period. Historian Dr Stefan...

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What makes a sand dune sing?

04 November 2016

When solids flow like liquids they can make sand dunes sing, and they can also result in a potentially deadly avalanche. Cambridge researchers are studying...

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