Man on a mission to beat cancer
14 November 2016Thirty years ago, Professor Richard Gilbertson pledged to implement a 15 per cent reduction in mortality from children’s brain cancer. This is the story of what happened...
Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest
11 November 2016The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum-Claudel observed how the act of...
Multi-drug resistant infection spreading globally among cystic fibrosis patients
10 November 2016A multi-drug resistant infection that can cause life-threatening illness in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) and can spread from patient to patient has spread globally...
World’s 'smallest magnifying glass' makes it possible to see individual chemical bonds between atoms
10 November 2016Using the strange properties of tiny particles of gold, researchers have concentrated light down smaller than a single atom, letting them look at individual chemical...
A counterintuitive approach to fighting cancer
09 November 2016When you’re under attack, you fight back. You gather your troops and attack the invading enemy, hoping to wound and defeat them, while supporting and...
Believing is Seeing: a Cambridge Shorts film
09 November 2016Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. The ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological developments...
Weight loss condition provides insight into failure of cancer immunotherapies
08 November 2016A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy – a new approach to treating cancer by...
Opinion: How the UK and India can lead the development of ecologically smart cities
08 November 2016Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned about water management in Nepal and...
A very hairy story
07 November 2016Beards 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...
Questions of life and death
04 November 2016An ambitious seminar series began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, The Time to Die addresses...