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Frugal innovation

Co-author of recently published book 'Jugaad Innovation', Professor Jaideep Prabhu argues that a frugal and flexible approach to innovation can generate breakthrough growth not only in the developing world but also in the West.

Melioidosis: exposing the 'Great Mimicker'

Each year melioidosis - a soil-borne disease dubbed the 'Great Mimicker' because of its frequent misdiagnosis - kills as many people in some regions of Southeast Asia as does tuberculosis. Now researchers are compiling the first public health guidelines to reduce the incidence of this disease.

Building the future with BRICs

A major conference examining how the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as leading world powers should be accommodated by the international community will take place at Cambridge University later this month.

'Picture This #10' - The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 lines, University Library

The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 lines is the oldest dated and illustrated Sanskrit manuscript known worldwide.

Powerful words

Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India's intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.

Indians and Europeans share a milky past

Cambridge University researchers have discovered that lactose tolerant milk-drinkers in India and Europe could be related to the same person who lived at some point in the last 10,000 years.

Sparing or sharing? Protecting wild species may require growing more food on less land

Separating land for nature and land for crops may be the best way to meet increased food demand with the least impact on wild species.

India's new brand of colonialism

The plight of Binayak Sen, the Indian public health expert recently bailed from prison on controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the problems facing India's adivasis (indigenous or tribal peoples), Cambridge University researchers have claimed.

Global politics on the agenda at Hay

Ahead of her talk at the Hay Festival, Dr Amrita Narlikar, Director of the University of Cambridge's new Centre for Rising Powers, discusses how countries like Brazil and China are changing the shape of global politics.

What price a human kidney?

A public talk at Cambridge University on Saturday will draw attention to the growing illegal trade in human organs and invite discussion of the complex ethical issues involved.