First major randomised controlled trial on evolutionary psychiatry finds mental health clinicians are far more likely to say describing anxiety as an evolved survival response will help patients, compared to genetic ideas taught in training.
Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a new study.
A pit containing both complete and dismembered bodies may date to when Cambridgeshire was a borderland between Saxon and Viking kingdoms – and includes an exceptionally tall individual with a hole trepanned in his skull.
Research examining ancient sewer drain sediment suggests the Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda suffered with intestinal worms and diarrhoea – despite their toilets, baths and drinking water system.
The first study to analyse rates of full vs half siblings in a range of mammals provides new evidence for monogamous behaviour in humans compared to other animals.
Funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme will support promising mid-career scientists to pursue creative research ideas across a broad range of scientific fields.
Seven researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Synergy Grants from the European Research Council to lead five new collaborative projects that will tackle some of science’s toughest puzzles.
Britain’s industrial economy did not collapse when the Romans left and went on to enjoy a Viking-age industrial boom, a new study finds, undermining a stubborn ‘Dark Ages’ narrative.
Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science
Cambridge researchers are working to undo a longstanding male bias in health research, to help drive more effective healthcare for all.
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