Growing bones with Lego

A video produced for Google Science Fair shows how researchers at Cambridge making synthetic bone have turned to legendary children's toy Lego for a helping hand.

A lost world? How zooarchaeology can inform biodiversity conservation

A new study of tropical forests will provide a 50,000-year perspective on how animal biodiversity has changed, explored through an archaeological investigation of animal bones.

The bones of the matter: caves, conversation and cup cakes

A discussion tomorrow will bring together some of the eminent archaeologists who studied at Cambridge in the 1960s and 1970s and went on to forge distinguished careers all over the world. The Bone Room's Past is free, open to all, and culminates with a homemade tea served in the historic Sedgwick Museum.

Back ache: it's been a pain for millions of years

Research by a Cambridge archaeologist shows that back pain caused untold misery long before we started staring into screens and slumping on sofas

New imaging technology predicts fracture risk

A new method for identifying which bones have a high risk of fracture, and for monitoring the effectiveness of new bone-strengthening drugs and techniques, has been developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge.

Magneto-active porous materials get close to the bone

The most common cause of artificial joint failure is loosening of the prosthetic implant. Dr Athina Markaki is designing materials to anchor them securely.

Scientists find first ever southern tyrannosaur

Scientists from Cambridge, London and Melbourne have found the first ever evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed in the southern continents. They identified a hip bone found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia as belonging to an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex.